Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Rhoda Broughton | RB
's vitality, sincerity, and pungent wit gained her the friendship of some of the most notable people of her day. |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
's later social circle included many writers: Sydney, Lady Morgan
, who became a close friend and for whom GJ
acted as amanuensis; author Lady Llanover
; author and publisher Douglas Jerrold
; and... |
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Isa Blagden | IB
became acquainted with the BrowningsElizabeth Barrett Browning
in Florence. Browning, Robert, and Isa Blagden. “Introduction”. Dearest Isa: Robert Browning’s Letters to Isabella Blagden, edited by Edward C. McAleer, Greenwood Press, p. xix - xxxiii. xxiii |
| Health | Julia Wedgwood | Throughout 1867, JW
suffered from depression, which ran in the family. (The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes that much of her time was taken up in caring for family invalids and hypochondriacs and other... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Shorter pieces here include many sonnets, the most striking and complex of which are perhaps the two dedicated to George Sand
that explore the apparent contradictions of gender and genius. To George Sand. A Desire... |
| 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 | U. A. Fanthorpe | UAF
was anthologized by Adrian Barlow
in Calling Kindred: Poems from the English Speaking World, 1993. At Poetry International 2000, she chose Robert Browning
as her Presiding Spirit. Connolly, Sally. “Woolly whispers of the past”. Times Literary Supplement, p. 25. 25 |
| 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 | Ella D'Arcy | It reverses the traditional story of a male philanderer rejected by a pure-minded woman. Lulie Thayer, an American girl, pursues, loves, and drops every man she meets. She is an adventuress . . . but... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Augusta Webster | She dropped her pseudonym at this point in her career. Rigg, Patricia. Julia Augusta Webster: Victorian Aestheticism and the Woman Writer. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 63 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Isa Blagden | Agnes Tremorne is a fairly sentimental novel of art, misfortune, and romance set in Rome during the struggle for Italian independence in the 1830s. Agnes Tremorne—the novel's heroine and protagonist—is both a devoted nurse to... |
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