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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.
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Jessie Fothergill | She acquired much knowledge through her voracious consumption of books: I loved books, and read all that I could get hold of, and have had many a rebuke for poring over those books instead of... |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Fuller | Leaving Rome, MF
and her family stopped briefly in Rieti before settling in Florence at the end of September 1849, where they became acquainted with Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. Despite a great gulf... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Fuller | In her review Miss Barrett
's Poems she praised the English poet's majesty and her poetic vision but noted also her lack of economy and the stiffness of her verse. |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
adored Rome, and she and her daughters were much sought after there. They met there Harriet Beecher Stowe
and Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(although their visit with the poets was not a success). Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 423-5 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Bruce Glasier | The book features as its heroine Aimée Furniss, a recent graduate from Newnham College
who has just taken up her first position teaching at a girls' school. Though she finds teaching rewarding, her experiences with... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elinor Glyn | She begins by defining what romance means to her, and she explains that in her life the fundamental impulse behind every action, has been the desire for romance. Glyn, Elinor. Romantic Adventure. E. P. Dutton. 2 |
| Textual Production | Kate Greenaway | Throughout the 1880s KG
illustrated many little books by well-known authors. In 1883 she provided illustrations for Little Ann and Other Poems, a collection by the early nineteenth-century children's writers Ann (later Gilbert)
and... |
| Education | Dora Greenwell | Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke. 73 |
| Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | With her marriage, AG
became part of her husband's impressive social network. She met Queen Victoria
, Heinrich Schliemann
, and James Froude
shortly after her wedding, and visited Robert Browning
and Henry James
on... |
| Textual Production | Beatrice Harraden | BH
published Spring Shall Plant, a novel about the troubled eleven-year-old Patuffa and the effects of music upon her. The title comes from a text by Robert Browning
. Colles, Hester Janet. “Spring Shall Plant”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 975, p. 614. 614 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Ellen Harrison | Moving in London's social and creative circles, JEH
also met Robert Browning
, Walter Pater
, Henry James
, and Alfred Tennyson
(whom she called the most openly vain man I ever met)... |
| Education | Frances Ridley Havergal | |
| Friends, Associates | Matilda Hays | In Italy, MH
socialized with a number of prominent figures including Isa Blagden
, Sara Lippincott
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and her husband
. Barrett Browning commented on the house of emancipated women... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Matilda Hays | Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson
, Longfellow
(used... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | Some of the poems in Records of Woman have recently been embraced by certain scholars (including Isobel Armstrong
in Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, who discusses them alongside poems by L. E. L. |
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