Browning : Background and Conflict

220pp. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Paper dust jacket is tanning, has some shelf wear, minor loss at spine heel, price unclipped. 8vo. The first part considers the interest and criticism aroused by Robert Browning in three decades 1850-59, 1890-99 and 1920-29. The second part presents Duckworth's own view that Browning's life and work was governed by a conflict in his personality and his poetry.