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(Description)

Author: Robert Browning.
Title: Poems of Robert Browning. Oxford Edition.
Publisher: London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1917.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7.5 " X 5 ".
Pages: viii-696 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good red full morocco leather binding with raised bands, gilt title and decoration to spine (hinges tight but scuffed and darkened - as shown, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. A very nice deluxe binding by Sangosrki & Sutcliffe binders for Marshall Field and Company! 
Content: Very good, near fine, content (bright, tight, and clean - as shown). 
Illustrations: Complete with the nice frontispiece portrait of Robert Browning.

The book: Attractive volume of the Poems of Robert Browning bound by Sangosrki & Sutcliffe. 

The author: Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax.
His early long poems Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835) were acclaimed, but his reputation dwindled for a time – his 1840 poem Sordello was seen as wilfully obscure – and took over a decade to recover, by which time he had moved from Shelleyan forms to a more personal style. In 1846 he married fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett and moved to Italy. By her death in 1861 he had published the collection Men and Women (1855). His Dramatis Personae (1864) and book-length epic poem The Ring and the Book (1868–1869) made him a leading poet. By his death in 1889 he was seen as a sage and philosopher-poet who had fed into Victorian social and political discourse. Societies for studying his work survived in Britain and the US into the 20th century.