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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.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Ouida | Critic Kenneth Churchill
argues that Ouida was the first English writer to chronicle the sense of growing disillusion |
| Textual Production | Carola Oman | She used her married name, C. Lenanton, for Miss Barrett
's Elopement, 1929 (about the famous Browning
courtship), and "Fair stood the Wind. . .", 1930 (one of her several novels with... |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Oliphant | While in Rome, MO
met Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press. 31 |
| Friends, Associates | Anne Ogle | The success of AO
's first novel introduced her to England's literary circles. She knew the BrowningRobert Browning
s, the CarlyleThomas Carlyle
s, the ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
s, Tennyson
, and Swinburne
. She also kept company with Mary Louisa Molesworth
. 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. Meyers, Terry L. “Swinburne Reshapes His Grand Passion: A Version by ’Ashford Owen’”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 31 , No. 1, West Virginia University, pp. 111-15. 111 |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Ogilvy | In the summer of 1849, the Ogilvys moved into an apartment above that of Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
in Casa Guidi, Florence. Ogilvy, Eliza et al. “Introduction and Appendices”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, edited by Peter N. Heydon and Philip Kelley, Quadrangle, pp. xi - xxiv; 175. xiv |
| Literary responses | Eliza Ogilvy | One critic felt that Mrs. Ogilvy is among those who have listened too long and too submissively to Tennyson
and the BrowningsRobert Browning
. Ogilvy, Eliza et al. “Introduction and Appendices”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, edited by Peter N. Heydon and Philip Kelley, Quadrangle, pp. xi - xxiv; 175. xviii |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | Some of her contributions are related (sometimes ironically or satirically related) to women's issues and the New Woman: Great Marriage Insurance Scheme, How Women Can Easily Make Provision for their Old Age... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Kathleen Nott | KN
writes often of intense human emotion without particularising its circumstances. She uses imagery of the natural world and of animals to convey moods and ideas. Her scenes are often city-scapes of the present instant... |
| Friends, Associates | Florence Nightingale | By 1858 she was in correspondence with Harriet Martineau
. She also knew John Stuart Mill
, Giuseppe Garibaldi
, James Clark
, Edwin Chadwick
, William Rathbone
, Julia Wedgwood
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Textual Features | E. Nesbit | In calling most of her mature poems dramatic monologues (and invoking the name of Robert Browning
) EN
claims that they do not give an unmediated version of her own experience, though she admits to... |
| Textual Features | Constance Naden | The first section contains mostly dramatic monologues which embody dilemmas of balancing love and ambition, intellect and emotion. Their language is simple but fairly formal, and their characters, if not specifically connected with some historical... |
| Occupation | William Morris | |
| Literary responses | Mary Russell Mitford | Elizabeth Barrett
and Robert Browning
were dismayed at the violation of their privacy (and particularly the treatment of Edward Barrett
's drowning) by MRM
's Recollections. Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press. 258 |
| Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | The editor of this second selection of Mitford's letters was Henry Chorley
. Her Correspondence with Charles Boner
and John Ruskin followed in 1914. R. Brimley Johnson
published another selection of her letters in 1925... |
| Textual Production | Betty Miller | Betty Spiro (later BM
) published her first novel, The Mere Living (titled from a line from Robert Browning
). Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii. x Miller, Betty. The Mere Living. Victor Gollancz. prelims |
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