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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 | Felicia Hemans | Wordsworth
in 1837 revised his existing Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg to include a stanza describing FH
as that holy Spirit / Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep. |
| Textual Production | Emily Hickey | With the collaboration of Robert Browning
, EH
produced a new edition of his Strafford
, An Historical Tragedy, supplying notes and a preface. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. 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. |
| Occupation | Emily Hickey | She remained the society's Honorary Secretary until 1884, when she was forced by ill health to retire. Peterson, William S. Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society. Ohio University Press. 12 Peterson, William S. Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society. Ohio University Press. 16 |
| Friends, Associates | Emily Hickey | EH
was also personally acquainted with both Robert Browning
and his biographer Alexandra Sutherland Orr
. Though her dealings with Browning were few, towards the end of his life she found herself occasionally in the... |
| Leisure and Society | Emily Hickey | EH
was a frequent participant in amateur dramatic readings. She often read the works of Robert Browning
. Shakespeare
, perhaps owing to her childhood deprivation, was also a particular favourite. She was praised as... |
| Literary responses | Emily Hickey | After reading A Sculptor, Robert Browning
wrote to EH
, I suppose I should be as truly bound to you if you were simply a student of poetry—nowise a proficient in its composition; whereas... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | John Oliver Hobbes | The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius
, John Wesley
, and Tolstoy
. Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray. 31 |
| Occupation | Frances Horovitz | FH
read the poetry of Robert Browning
for a film, Robert Browning—His Life and Poetry, produced by Armada Productions
and the International Film Bureau
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Literary responses | Julia Ward Howe | Many critics praised the poems' raw emotional power. Ednah Dow Cheney
, the only female reviewer, commented on their galvanic effect on the reader, and likened Howe to Robert Browning
. Williams, Gary. Hungry Heart. U Massachusetts Press. 172-3 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | MH
's friendship with Elizabeth Barrett Browning
came to an end; her biography blames this on the mutual coldness of their respective husbands. Robert Browning
was alienated on hearing stories that William took surreptitious notes... |
| Friends, Associates | Violet Hunt | Friends of VH
's family included John Ruskin
, Edward Burne-Jones
, John Millais
, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, Robert Browning
, and Christina Rossetti
, who read Violet's early poems. VH
also met and... |
| Friends, Associates | Jean Ingelow | JI
had a small but distinguished circle of intimate friends. By 1863 she was a friend of Alfred Tennyson
and was also close to Dora Greenwell
. She admired and respected Robert Browning
(though she... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Kathleen E. Innes | Kathleen Royds
and George Innes
were married in Cove, Hampshire, by her brother-in-law Allan Watson
. Whether by design or coincidence, their marriage date was the same chosen in 1846 by Elizabeth Barrett
and... |
| Textual Production | Lucille Iremonger | LI
published another fictionalised biography, this time of Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. It was entitled (from Elizabeth's famous poem) How Do I Love Thee. 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. |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Brownell Jameson |
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