The complete online text of Robert Browning by G. K. Chesterton.

The English author, journalist, and artist Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) dedicated his extraordinary intellect and creative power to the reform of English government and society. In 1922 he converted to Roman Catholicism and became its champion. O...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a prolific writer who wrote in such a variety of genres that he resists simple classification. Previous Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes have examined Chesterton as a poet, a dramatist, a traditional novelist, a myste...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, journalist, essayist, master ideologue of religion and politics, and a seminal figure in the development of the modern detective story, was born on 29 May 1874 in Campden Hill, in the Kensington neighborhood of London. Chesterto...

Robert Browning's use of ekphrasis in poems to dramatize the dialectical relation between seeing and being seen is analyzed. Emphasis is placed on the paragonal nature of the ekphrastic encounter and contest between word and image. It is also argued that the beholder becomes...

It is rare for civic heads to become members of the House of Commons - Alderman Sir Lesley Lever, Lord Mayor of Manchester at the time United crashed in Munich, became MP for Ardwick; Sir Myer Galpern, Lord Provost of Glasgow, acquired Shettleston and...

Authorities say they have been unable to verify a prison inmate's claims that he killed as many as 49 people in more than a half-dozen states, but they still think there's some truth in his accounts.Robert Browne, 53, who is serving consecutive life terms for...

The sharp declines this month in many stock markets worldwide proves that not all that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.That city is among those areas of the United States hard hit by a slumping housing market. Combine that with a strong global appetite in...