The present volume, in any case, does not aspire to say it.
But it is not perhaps necessary to apologise for adding, under these conditions, another to the list.

From most of the recent studies I have learned something; but this book has its roots in a somewhat earlier time, and may perhaps be described as an attempt to work out, in the detail of Browning's life and poetry, from a more definitely literary standpoint and without Hegelian prepossessions, a view of his genius not unlike that set forth with so much eloquence and penetration, in his well-known volume, by Professor Henry Jones.

The narrative of Browning's life, in the earlier chapters, makes no pretence to biographical completeness.

An immense mass of detail and anecdote bearing upon him is now available and within easy reach.

I have attempted to sift out from this picturesque loose drift the really salient and relevant material.
Much domestic incident, over which the brush would fain linger, will be missed; on the other hand, the great central epoch of Browning's poetic life, from 1846 to 1869, has been treated, deliberately, on what may appear an inordinately generous scale.