The Essential Browning - Essential Poets Author:Robert Browning, Douglas Dunn (Editor) Scottish poet and playwright Douglas Dunn introduces this essential collection of Robert Browning's great works, admiring the poetry's "impure dazzle and radiance," full of the reality of life. As Dunn states in his prologue: — "In so much of Browning's poetry, forms, meters, diction and vocabulary search for a un... more »ique fittingness, a voicing of poetry 'once, and only once,' for that poem only. It illustrates his astounding scrupulousness and artistic integrity...It shows too the degree to which he insisted to himself that instinct and feeling should collaborate with intelligence and hammer out the matter between them."« less