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Robert Browning
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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.
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | This powerful evocation of a female African-American slave, who challenges her pursuers and thereby forestalls her capture moments before she dies, draws on EBB
's awareness of the Barrett family's history as Jamaican slaveholders. A... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
maintained this engagement with contemporary political issues in Casa Guidi Windows, Aurora Leigh, and Poems Before Congress. A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London, included in her last poems... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Robert Browning
wrote a letter to Elizabeth Barrett
, effusively praising her poetry. Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press. 10: xii |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Shorter pieces here include many sonnets, the most striking and complex of which are perhaps the two dedicated to George Sand
that explore the apparent contradictions of gender and genius. To George Sand. A Desire... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Robert Browning
paid his first visit to Elizabeth Barrett
in Wimpole Street. Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton. 150 Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press. 151 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | She did not show the poems to Browning
until July of 1849; he persuaded her to include them in her next edition of Poems, saying I dared not reserve to myself, the finest sonnets... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Elizabeth Barrett
agreed to marry Robert Browning
. Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press. 11: 99-100 Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press. 159-60 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The poem's first part was inspired by events on the night of 12 September 1847, EBB
's first wedding anniversary. From Casa Guidi she and Robert Browning
watched political demonstrations in celebration of Grand Duke Leopoldo II |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Elizabeth Barrett
secretly married Robert Browning
at St Marylebone Church, London. Markus, Julia. Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Knopf. 70 Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton. 180 |
| Travel | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | After being secretly married the previous week, EBB
and Robert Browning
left London for their honeymoon in Paris. Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton. 185-6 Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press. 14: x |
| Residence | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
and her new husband Robert Browning
, travelling on from Paris to Italy, settled for the time being at Pisa. Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton. 195 Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press. 14: x |
| Residence | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The BrowningsRobert Browning
moved from Pisa to Florence. Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton. 206 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Staying at Pisa with her new husband
, EBB
sent her dramatic monologue The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point to James Russell Lowell
; it appeared next year in the Boston abolitionist gift-book The Liberty... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | With Elizabeth Barrett
's reply to an epistolary overture by Robert Browning
, one of the greatest exchanges of love letters in English got underway. Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press. 10: 18, xii |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
's posthumous Last Poems, as collected by Robert Browning
, were published. Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press. 407 |
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