While his detractors found his verse to be deliberately obscure, Robert Browning resisted such charges and went on to become one of he most critically acclaimed and popular English poets of the 19th century. Known for his imaginative originality and dramatic power, Browning is one of the most undervalued major poets of the English language, as is evidence in his enduring works such as
My Last Duchess ,
Fra Lippo Lippi ,
Childe Roland
to the
Dark Tower Came ,
Andrea del Sarto , and
Caliban Upon Setebos . This volume of essays featuring criticism from both Browning’s contemporaries and later critics also includes a chronology, an index, and an introduction from literary critic Harold Bloom.