Robert Browning by G. K. Chesterton audiobook.

Genre: biography

In Robert Browning, G. K. Chesterton offers a brisk, opinionated portrait of the great Victorian poet and the strange, exhilarating world inside his verse. Part biography, part literary detective work, the book follows Browning from his early formation and ambitions through the creation of the dramatic monologues that made his name, showing how he turned poetry into a stage where criminals, saints, skeptics, and lovers argue their cases. Chesterton does not treat Browning as a museum figure: he wrestles with Browning's difficult style, his jolting humor, his abrupt leaps of thought, and the moral energy that pulses beneath the puzzles. Along the way he places Browning amid the debates of his age - faith and doubt, progress and tradition, art and responsibility - and considers the poet's partnership with Elizabeth Barrett Browning as part of the emotional background to his work. Written with Chesterton's trademark wit and clarity, this is a lively invitation to read Browning not as a riddle to be endured, but as a bold mind to be met.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:35:55) Chapter 02

(01:12:55) Chapter 03

(01:39:30) Chapter 04

(01:58:09) Chapter 05

(02:30:34) Chapter 06

(02:52:42) Chapter 07

(03:16:02) Chapter 08

(03:42:58) Chapter 09

(04:05:52) Chapter 10

(04:41:58) Chapter 11

(05:03:32) Chapter 12

(05:35:17) Chapter 13

(06:08:39) Chapter 14

(06:36:29) Chapter 15

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