Robert Browning

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Standard Name: Browning, Robert
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RB wrote thirty-one books of poetry (excluding numerous collected editions) and became the most influential practitioner of the dramatic monologue in the Victorian period. He also wrote literary criticism and two plays that were staged. His poetry's conversational phrasing, challenging syntax, quotidian imagery, and philosophical preoccupations respond to romanticism and anticipate modernism. He has become one of the most prominent among canonical Victorian poets.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Sarah Flower Adams
As her father established himself socially and politically within the Dalston community, she became involved in London's literary and intellectual circles. Among those she met, William James Linton , John Stuart Mill , and...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Flower Adams
Nearer, My God, to Thee, written when SFA was only twenty-one, has often been misattributed to Harriet Beecher Stowe .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Apparently the hymn was inspired by Adams' friend Robert Browning 's early religious doubts...
Publishing Laurence Alma-Tadema
LAT 's One Way of Love, A Play (its title borrowed from that of a poem by Robert Browning ) was privately printed at Edinburgh.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Intertextuality and Influence Theodora Benson
Robert Browning 's poem to Emily Patmore , the original angel in the house, is quoted at the head of the first chapter. Unlike TB 's first novel, this is a romance with a consummated...
Friends, Associates Matilda Betham-Edwards
MBE set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with...
Textual Features L. S. Bevington
Here LSB moves away from the metrical experimentation and aesthetic focus of Poems, Lyrics, and Sonnets, to produce poems that describe a utopian vision of ideal society destined to be cultivated through revolutionary political...
Family and Intimate relationships L. S. Bevington
More is known about LSB 's relationship with her brother, Alex (who was born on 24 June 1854). She corresponded with him, and sent him poems she had written. Scholar Jackie Dees Domingue speculates that...
Publishing L. S. Bevington
She apparently sent a copy to Robert Browning .
Domingue, Jackie Dees. “An Unpublished Browning Letter to Louisa Sarah Bevington”. ANQ, Vol.
13
, No. 3, pp. 37-41.
38, 40n4
Literary responses L. S. Bevington
Unlike LSB 's first volume of poetry, this achieved some success in literary circles while it was largely ignored by the scientific community.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press.
9: 228
The Academy comprehensively panned it, terming it flatulent trash...
Friends, Associates Mabel Birchenough
At the wedding were Robert Browning , the distinguished soldier and colonial Indian administrator Sir Lewis Pelly , and suffragist Louisa, Lady Goldsmid . The bridegroom's best man was imperial statesman Lord Milner, one...
Travel Clementina Black
While in Florence, they stayed at Casa Guidi, where the BrowningsRobert Browning had lived twenty years earlier.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
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Friends, Associates Isa Blagden
IB became acquainted with the BrowningsElizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence.
Browning, Robert, and Isa Blagden. “Introduction”. Dearest Isa: Robert Browning’s Letters to Isabella Blagden, edited by Edward C. McAleer, Greenwood Press, p. xix - xxxiii.
xxiii
Leisure and Society Isa Blagden
IB was fond of society life, had a wide circle of friends, and was noted for her hospitality. Her home at the Villa Brichieri, with its terraced garden overlooking Florence and the Arno, was...
Friends, Associates Isa Blagden
IB and the Brownings became very close friends. In a letter to Isa, Elizabeth wrote: I miss you and love you. How perfect you are to me always . . . .
Raymond, William O. “Our Lady of Bellosguardo: A Pastel Portrait”. University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol.
xii
, pp. 446-63.
454
While he...
Literary responses Isa Blagden
Henry James dismissed IB 's novels as the inevitable nice novel or two of the wandering English spinster.
West, Rebecca. Harriet Hume. Lester and Orpen Dennys.
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IB 's texts have received scant critical attention, and the little which has been published frequently...

Timeline

1 November 1907: The British Museum's reading room reopened...

Building item

1 November 1907

The British Museum 's reading room reopened after being cleaned and redecorated; the dome was embellished with the names of canonical male writers, beginning with Chaucer and ending with Browning .

Texts

Browning, Robert. Asolando. Smith, Elder.
Browning, Robert. Balaustion’s Adventure. Smith, Elder, 1871.
Browning, Robert. Bells and Pomegranates. Edward Moxon, 1846.
Browning, Robert, and Isa Blagden. Dearest Isa: Robert Browning’s Letters to Isabella Blagden. Editor McAleer, Edward C., Greenwood Press.
Browning, Robert. Dramatic Idyls. Smith, Elder, 1879.
Browning, Robert. Dramatis Personae. Chapman and Hall, 1864.
Browning, Robert. “Editorial Materials”. Robert Browning’s Poetry: Authoritative Texts, Criticism, edited by James F. Loucks, W. W. Norton, 1979, p. various pages.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “Editorial Materials”. The Brownings’ Correspondence, edited by Philip Kelley et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984, p. Various pages.
Browning, Robert, and Julia Wedgwood. “Introduction”. Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood: A Broken Friendship as Revealed by Their Letters, edited by Richard Curle, Frederick A. Stokes, 1937, p. vii - xxiii.
Browning, Robert, and Isa Blagden. “Introduction”. Dearest Isa: Robert Browning’s Letters to Isabella Blagden, edited by Edward C. McAleer, Greenwood Press, 1970, p. xix - xxxiii.
Ricks, Christopher et al. “Introduction”. The Brownings: Letters and Poetry, International Collectors Library, 1970, pp. 1-29.
Browning, Robert. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Ring and the Book, edited by Richard D. Altick, Yale University Press, 1971, pp. 7 - 20, 629.
Browning, Robert. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Ring and the Book, edited by Thomas J. Collins and Richard D. Altick, Broadview, 2001, pp. vii - xviii; 765.
Day, Aidan, and Robert Browning. “Introduction, Critical Commentary, and Editorial Materials”. Robert Browning: Selected Poetry and Prose, Routledge, 1991, pp. 1 - 21, 151.
Browning, Robert, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. “Introductory Essay”. Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edward Moxon, 1852.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Last Poems. Editor Browning, Robert, Chapman and Hall, 1862.
Browning, Robert. Men and Women. Chapman and Hall, 1855.
Browning, Robert. “Notes”. Robert Browning, The Poems, edited by John Pettigrew et al., Yale University Press, 1981, pp. 973-1157.
Browning, Robert. Paracelsus. Effingham Wilson, 1835.
Browning, Robert. Pauline. Saunders and Otley, 1833.
Browning, Robert. “Porphyria”. The Monthly Repository.
Browning, Robert, and Julia Wedgwood. Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood: A Broken Friendship as Revealed in Their Letters. Editor Curle, Richard, John Murray and Jonathan Cape, 1937.
Browning, Robert. Robert Browning’s Poetry: Authoritative Texts, Criticism. Editor Loucks, James F., W. W. Norton, 1979.
Browning, Robert. Robert Browning, The Poems. Editors Pettigrew, John and Thomas J. Collins, Yale University Press, 1981.
Browning, Robert. Sordello. Edward Moxon, 1840.