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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Literary responses Jane Taylor
Most famous and beloved of all the contents of these books is undoubtedly Jane's The Star, better known as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, sometimes classed as a nursery rhyme, which first appeared in...
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Taylor
Robert Browning 's poem Rephan, he acknowledged, was suggested by Taylor's story entitled How It Strikes a Stranger.
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons, 1939.
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In Rephan a speaker born on the perfect, changeless planet of this...
Friends, Associates Anna Swanwick
AS 's circle of friends (very largely brought her by her translations) included Henry Crabb Robinson , Tennyson , Robert Browning (who told her he wished she had known his wife), James Martineau (brother of...
Literary responses Anna Swanwick
Again letters of appreciation poured in, though several people confessedly wrote without, or before, studying the text at all carefully. Robert Browning wrote, Yours has been a wonderful undertaking.
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Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903.
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Professor Paley praised the ease...
Textual Production Lesley Storm
LS 's early novels appeared in quick succession after this first publication. In the next two years she published Head in the Wind (1928) and Small Rain (1929). Between 1931 and 1933, she published five...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Stewart
The novel is set in southern France: the action begins in Avignon and concludes in Marseilles. Epigraphs to chapters range through the traditional English literary canon—Chaucer , Spenser , Shakespeare , Robert Browning
Intertextuality and Influence G. B. Stern
She begins by quoting in its entirety Robert Browning 's poem entitled Memorabilia, which as she observes is better known by its opening line, Ah, did you once see Shelley plain?
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Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery, 1958.
prelims
She approaches...
Residence Freya Stark
Robert Stark had loved Asolo since his student days in Rome, when he was shown the town by Pen Browning , the son of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning . Robert and Flora's close friend,...
Friends, Associates Mary Somerville
MS met Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning in Florence, and was in turn visited by Longfellow .
Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, 1815 - 1879, Roberts Brothers, 1874.
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Education Constance Smedley
She later attended King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham. While there she entered a competition for reciting poems by Robert Browning , and wrote to ask him for his own interpretation...
Occupation Elizabeth Siddal
ES was preparing illustrations for ballads by William Allingham ; she also worked on engravings for texts by Wordsworth , Scott , Tennyson , and Browning .
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
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Occupation Elizabeth Siddal
Dante Gabriel Rossetti showed Robert Browning some drawings by ES of a scene from Pippa Passes, with which Rossetti reported him delighted beyond measure.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Editors Doughty, Oswald and John Robert Wahl, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 4 vols.
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Literary responses Louisa Catherine Shore
Elegies was praised by Robert Browning , George Meredith , and William Gladstone .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Shore, Arabella. First and Last Poems. Grant Richards, 1900.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jo Shapcott
Epigraphs to particular poems quote Chaucer , Swift , Elizabeth Barrett , Elizabeth Bishop , Geoffrey Bateson , and (most frequently) Elizabeth Hardwick . The title-poem (called by a reviewer Kafka esque)
Wormald, Mark. “Making a virtue of double vision”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4497, 9–15 June 1989, pp. 241-2.
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Friends, Associates Elizabeth Sewell
At a dinner party, ES met Lady Augusta Ward , Robert Browning , Arthur Stanley (Dean of Westminster), and William Vernon Harcourt , among other prominent people.
Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green, 1907.
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