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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Intertextuality and Influence Emily Jane Pfeiffer
Her poem Any Husband to Many a Wife (whose title marks it as a response to Robert Browning 's Any Wife to Any Husband) is a sardonic comment on marital relations. The husband in...
Intertextuality and Influence Violet Fane
Another story, The True Story of a Midnight Murder, humorously details the late-night execution of a large mosquito. [F]or the first time in my life, the narrator admits, I knew that I, also, thirsted...
Intertextuality and Influence Agnes Maule Machar
Roland Graeme, Knight incorporates wide-ranging allusions to figures such as Goethe , Dickens , Browning , Ruskin , Thoreau , Tennyson , Carlyle , and Handel . Critic Carole Gerson compares it to earlier nineteenth-century...
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?
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
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She approaches...
Leisure and Society Isa Blagden
IB was fond of society life, had a wide circle of friends, and was noted for her hospitality. Her home at the Villa Brichieri, with its terraced garden overlooking Florence and the Arno, was...
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...
Leisure and Society Dorothy Bussy
Dorothy's parents numbered among their friends and acquaintances many prominent artists, scientists, and politicians. These included Browning , Ruskin , Tennyson , Jane and Thomas Carlyle , Francis Galton , Percy Lubbock , and John Tyndall
Leisure and Society Anna Brownell Jameson
ABJ attended (with Robert Browning ) a lecture given by Thomas Carlyle on The Hero as Divinity, and a week later on The Hero as Poet (later part of On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the...
Leisure and Society Mary Boyle
MB was an avid reader. Her favourite authors included Walter Landor , with whom she exchanged frequent letters, the BrowningsRobert Browning , and most especially, her literary godfather, G. P. R. James .
Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray.
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Literary responses Ezra Pound
Monroe later added, I can't pretend to be much pleased at the course his verse is taking. A hint from Browning at his most recondite, and erudition in seventeen languages.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1.
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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...
Literary responses Isa Blagden
Henry James dismissed IB 's novels as the inevitable nice novel or two of the wandering English spinster.
West, Rebecca. Harriet Hume. Lester and Orpen Dennys.
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IB 's texts have received scant critical attention, and the little which has been published frequently...
Literary responses Jessie White Mario
After the inaugural lecture, the New York Herald called her words very chaste and poetical and her enunciation clear and distinct.
Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press.
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When her thoughts turned to the Italian struggle, her brilliant eyes flashed like...
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.
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin.
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Professor Paley praised the ease...
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...

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