aeo Only book published in the last 50 years that treats chronologically and at length the whole Browning corpus. aeo Questions the idea that Browning was an objective, dramatic poet, whose works are distinct and separate from himself. aeo Relates Browning the poet to Browning the man. .
Clyde Ryals's masterful account explores Browning's work from Pauline, his earliest published poem, to Asolando, his last volume, and is the first biographical study in fifty years to treat chronologically and at length the entire Browning corpus.