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Reviews: Robert Browning: A Private Life by Iain Finlayson Large life of a great oddity
From: The Scotsman
Date: 20040124
Author:Robert Nye
Robert Browning: A Private Life by Iain Finlayson
HarperCollins, GBP 30 Review by Robert Nye
I once heard Robert Browning plain. His voice, preserved on an old wax cylinder record, sounded much as you would expect it to sound from his poems: bluff, intelligent, a bit prickly and embattled. No Dylan Thomas, no golden gong-voice giving his verse the works, Browning was apparently trying late in life to recite from memory one of the most popular of his anthology pieces, How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix. He fails splendidly, getting the first line wrong, shouting his way harshly ...
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