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Robert Browning
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Standard Name: Browning, Robert
Used Form: Z
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 Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Violet Fane | Another story, The True Story of a Midnight Murder, humorously details the late-night execution of a large mosquito. [F]or the first time in my life, the narrator admits, I knew that I, also, thirsted... |
| Textual Features | Catherine Fanshawe | One of the poems, a delightful Ode which imitates or parodies several well-known passages in various works by Gray
, was written not by CF
but by her friend Mary Berry
, some time before... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | U. A. Fanthorpe | UAF
was anthologized by Adrian Barlow
in Calling Kindred: Poems from the English Speaking World, 1993. At Poetry International 2000, she chose Robert Browning
as her Presiding Spirit. |
| Education | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | From twelve to fifteen, Millicent Garrett
(later MGF
) was sent to a boarding school at Blackheath in Kent, run by a Miss [Louisa] Browning, who was an aunt of the poet Robert Browning
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray. 6-7, 10, 15 |
| Occupation | Michael Field | Edith was from time to time required to care for her aging parents. During the winter of 1887, she missed a visit to her beloved Robert Browning
because she had to stay at home to... |
| Friends, Associates | Michael Field | Katharine
and Edith Cooper
shared a great many distinguished friends in the worlds of literature and aesthetics: Walter Pater
, Oscar Wilde
, Arthur Symons
, Charles Shannon
, Sarianna Browning
, Thomas Sturge Moore |
| Travel | Michael Field | Pen was the son of the late Elizabeth
and Robert Browning
and Sarinna the sister of Robert. Always prone to ill-health, Edith came down with a fever at the start of the visit. Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray. 203 |
| Reception | Michael Field | Edith sent Browning
a copy of this book, calling it the first fruits of thought spent by a new labourer on the vine-yard of human life. If you will taste the fruit, it will not... |
| Textual Production | Michael Field | Some time after Callirrhoë; Fair Rosamund appeared, MF
's correspondent Robert Browning
probably let it slip to the Athenæum that the author was a woman. Fletcher, Robert P. “’ I leave the page half-writ’: Narrative Discoherence in Michael Field’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Underneath the Bough</span>”;. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, Macmillan, pp. 164-82. 166 |
| Textual Production | Michael Field | |
| Literary responses | Michael Field | Robert Browning
responded to the fair copy of Long Ago, making few suggestions but counselling the excision of a relatively explicit poem that was indeed omitted. He declined to write a preface for this... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Michael Field | Both Edith and Katharine contributed to this extraordinary journal, giving their impressions of travel, art, religion, death, and love. They also record encounters with their literary contemporaries, including Robert Browning
, George Meredith
, John Ruskin |
| Friends, Associates | Michael Field | Robert Browning
dated his first of many letters addressed to Edith Cooper
and Katharine Harris Bradley
, who were soon to publish together as MF
. Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray. 1 |
| Friends, Associates | Edward FitzGerald | Despite a somewhat reclusive life both before and after his separation from his wife within a year of their marriage, he was well connected with the Victorian literary scene, and expressed strong opinions on women... |
| Textual Features | Margaret Forster | Forster seeks here to replace the traditional image of Barrett Browning as the helpless victim of one man, rescued by another, with a view which sets her at the centre of her own life and... |
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