John Maynard, Browning’s Youth, Cambridge (Mass.), 1977
Daniel Karlin, The Courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, Oxford, 1985
Clyde de L. Ryals, The Life of Robert Browning: A Critical Biography, Oxford, 1993
Sarah Wood, Robert Browning: A Literary Life, London, 2001
4. CRITICISM AND WORKS OF REFERENCE
Mrs (Alexandra Sutherland) Orr, A Handbook to the Works of Robert Browning, London, 1885; revised and updated in successive edns to 1896
G. K. Chesterton, Robert Browning, London, 1903
W. C. DeVane, A Browning Handbook, 2nd edn, New York, 1955 (first publ. 1937)
Robert Langbaum, The Poetry of Experience, New York, 1957
Park Honan, Browning’s Characters: A Study in Poetic Technique, New Haven, 1961
Robert Browning: The Critical Heritage, ed. B. Litzinger and D. Smalley, London, 1968
W. David Shaw, The Dialectical Temper: The Rhetorical Art of Robert Browning, Ithaca, 1968
Harold Bloom, A Map of Misreading, Oxford, 1975
Herbert F. Tucker, Browning’s Beginnings: The Art of Disclosure, Minneapolis, 1980
E. Warwick Slinn, Browning and the Fictions of Identity, London, 1982
Philip Kelley and Betty Coley, The Browning Collections: A Reconstruction, Winfield (Kansas), 1984
Loy D. Martin, Browning’s Dramatic Monologues and the Post-Romantic Subject, Baltimore, 1985
John Woolford, Browning the Revisionary, London, 1988
Daniel Karlin, Browning’s Hatreds, Oxford, 1993
A Concordance to the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning, compiled by R. J. Shroyer and T. J. Collins, New York, 1996
Donald S. Hair, Robert Browning’s Language, Toronto, 1999
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