Poems Of Robert Browning, The (Ww Poetry Library)

Description: The Wordsworth Poetry Library comprises the works of the greatest English-speaking poets,
as well as many lesser-known poets. Each collection has a specially commissioned introduction.
With an Introduction by Dr Tim Cook. Robert Browning (1812-1889) represents the intellectual and argumentative strand in English poetry in contrast to the more ornate style of Spenser and Tennyson. His poetry demonstrates how a poet must be a sharp perceptive observer of the complexity of the human condition. Perhaps his most moving poetry was written to express his feelings for his wife, the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in which he deals in a very 'modern' way with the uncomfortable fact that we can never quite bridge the gap between ourselves and the people we love.