Robert Browning

This is a marvelous book that does justice to Robert Browning's huge personality and startlingly modern approach to storytelling, poetry, and epistemology. Like all biographies written by Chesterton, this book tells us at least as much about Chesterton as it tells us about his subject. But, of cours......more

I have no idea how accurate this biography is, but it contains some of Chesterton's most engaging prose. As with most of his works, it is less about its putative subject and more about human experience in general. He engages in the kind of snap editorializing which would scandalize the modern schola......more

Since I already had Chesterton out, I figured I may as well read another, right? I almost started The Flying Inn, because it seems to be the last of his novels that I haven't read, but I saved that one for later after reading a short description (it's about a futuristic society where the teetotaller......more

This book is as much about Chesterton's philosophy of what makes a great poet as it is about the poetry and life of Robert Browning. That said, Robert Browning stands as a model of the great poet for Chesterton. In essence, that poet sees the eternal beauty, the seed of God, of the most sublime thin......more

Part of me is not very confident about this review: I used this book as my “2 am anxiety cure” - if I woke up in the middle of the night and I started thinking bad things about myself, I would reach for this book. Often I was half asleep within 10 minutes, fantasizing about this wonderful poet I’ve......more