The major strengths of The Complete Critical Guide To Robert Browning are its clarity, its comprehensiveness, and the judiciousness of its critical and theoretical discourse. Because of these qualities it will be useful to students and scholars alike
Thomas J. Collins

A wonderfully deft introduction to the work of this crucial poet. Hawlin crosses and recrosses the expansive body of Browning's poetry with an expert touch and fertile concision. This guide manages to include an astonishing amount of material - biographical, poetic, critical and theoretical- without ever becoming cluttered, and its many sensitive readings of the poetry are full of marvellous insight and intelligence. This is certainly the best introduction to the poetry of Robert Browning available today
Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London

Through his innovations in poetry, especially the dramatic monologue, Robert Browning became among the most important poets of his time and a tremendous influence on twentieth-century poets like T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. He is one of the most studied poets of the nineteenth-century and a key figure in Victorian literature or introduction to poetry courses. This comprehensive introduction is the ideal reference for students.  less