Herford, Charles Harold. [Robert Browning.] [**]$1. Dodd.
“The biographical element is sufficient, but is subordinate to the exposition of the poet’s work in the order of its production. The true biography of Browning can be written in no other way.... A clear perception of this fact, and a definite though not a rigid application of this fact to his material, give Professor Herford’s study a true biographic as well as an interpretative quality.”—Outlook.
“Prof. Herford’s study of Browning is in many respects complementary to that of Mr. Chesterton’s published last year. The style is, for the most part sober and balanced though there are occasional flashes of rather loose rhetoric, and the author has an odd habit of falling at intervals into comments which are banal or tasteless.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 14. Jl. 1, 1580w. |
“In scale it stands midway between Mr. Chesterton’s and Prof. Dowden’s; in quality it is to be compared rather with the latter.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + | Atlan. 96: 279. Ag. ‘05. 760w. |
“There could hardly be a better brief estimate of Browning’s genius than Professor Herford has given us.” Edward Fuller.
| + + + | Critic. 47: 247. S. ‘05. 390w. |
“The commentator knows his Browning well, has availed himself of the best and latest authorities, and manifests a considerable degree of sympathetic appreciation; but he is hampered in his presentation by a clumsiness of expression. Numerous misquotations from the poems ... do not strengthen our confidence in Professor Herford or his book.”
| + — | Dial. 39: 44. Jl. 16, ‘05. 400w. |