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Written by Robert Browning - Audio book performed by Frederick Davidson - Unabridged Poetry Selections - 4 CASSETTES - 6 hours

Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (October 1995)

Robert Browning was a deeply religious man who wrestled to obtain and keep his Christian faith. His conviction was that life in this world is so riddled with evil and sorrow that only a future life can make sense of it. He viewed life as a training ground that God provided in His divine love and sovereign will. To Browning, the most dreaded fate would be to live a "ghastly smooth life, dead at heart."

Given Browning's intensely romantic love affair with Elizabeth Barrett, it is characteristic that he should view love as the key to the meaning of life and life's animating force. This view of life is projected throughout his poetry.

Included in this collection are

Johannes Agricola in Meditation
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Fra Lippo Lippi
A Toccata of Galuppi's
The Lost Leader
The Statue and the Bust
How it strikes a Contemporary
The Patriot
Memorabilia
James Lee's Wife
Confessions
Youth and Art
A Likeness
Mr. Sludge
The Medium
House
St. Martin's Summer
The Names
Beatrice Signorini
Spring Song

and others.