“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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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 ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | The Dictionary of Literary Biography called Bitter HerbsCADS
's most complex and best volume of poetry. |
| Textual Production | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | CADS
published the final novel in her feminist Some Wives trilogy, Mrs. Noakes, An Ordinary Woman. The protagonist's name reflects the use (in legal texts, as well as by such writers as Robert Browning |
| Literary responses | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | A friend of her father's, impressed by her work, sent the poem to Robert Browning
, who responded with a generous and encouraging letter. He criticized her failure to achieve originality, and told her to... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | The title phrase opens one of the best-known poems by scholar and poet Francis William Bourdillon
. GHS
quotes a stanza from it, along with other, more canonical poets from Ovid
through Milton
and Wordsworth |
| Friends, Associates | John Ruskin | JR
's social and intellectual network was extensive: amongst his acquaintances were Elizabeth Barrett
and Robert Browning
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, Violet Hunt
, Jean Ingelow
, Flora Shaw
, Jane Welsh Carlyle
and Thomas Carlyle |
| Textual Features | Carol Rumens | Her title comes from the opinion (propounded in the closing sequence, On the Spectrum) that people characterized by varying degrees and kinds of what is popularly called autism have a particular affinity with animals... |
| Friends, Associates | Christina Rossetti | Her literary connections expanded further with the publication of Goblin Market and Other Poems. Dora Greenwell
approached her effusively by letter and Lewis Carroll
was keen to photograph her and her family. In 1865... |
| Textual Features | Christina Rossetti | Influences that manifested themselves somewhat later in CR
's career were those of fairy tales—Perrault
, Keightley
, and later Hans Christian Andersen
—and later poets including Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, whom... |
| Textual Production | Christina Rossetti | In 1856, CR
published an historical short story, The Lost Titian, in The Crayon, a small magazine published in New York. Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne. 100 Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking. 176-9 |
| Textual Production | A. Mary F. Robinson | |
| Friends, Associates | A. Mary F. Robinson | Her parents, who were the friends of many literary and artistic people, introduced her to an impressive social circle. Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, William Michael Rossetti
, Thomas Hardy
, Walter Pater
,... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | A. Mary F. Robinson | They were introduced when Darmesteter translated a volume of her verse into French. He was a Jewish-born French rationalist and academic orientalist, Professor of Persian at the Collège de France
(in succession to Ernest Renan |
| Reception | A. Mary F. Robinson | The book was a critical success. Rumours spread that Tennyson
and Browning
had enjoyed reading it, and this made the young poet the talk of literary London. Robertson, Eric Sutherland. English Poetesses. Cassell. 376 |
| Textual Production | A. Mary F. Robinson | In 1922 AMFR
signed the introduction to another volume written in French, Poèmes de Robert Browning, with her married name as Mary Duclaux . “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
| Friends, Associates | F. Mabel Robinson | FMR
shared to the full the social involvement of her family with entertaining leading figures in London cultural life: such men as John Singer Sargent
, Robert Browning
, William Morris
, and Oscar Wilde |
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