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Robert Browning's private life.(Reviews)(Book Review)
From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20040901
Author:Whittington-Egan, Richard
Browning: A Private Life. Iain Finlayson. HarperCollins. [pounds sterling]30. X + 758 pages. ISBN 0-00-255507-7.
Iain Finlayson's hefty study of the private life of Robert Browning is the biographical equivalent of the equally bulky literary concordance, Berdoe's Browning Cyclopoedia, which apeared in 1891: each represents an enormous amount of work and thought. Mr. Finlayson, very sensibly, has both consulted, and freely admitted to so doing, the plethora of works which has gone before him. He has been criticised for this, but how in all conscience could he not do so? This is ...
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