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 Julia Ward Howe
Many critics praised the poems' raw emotional power. Ednah Dow Cheney , the only female reviewer, commented on their galvanic effect on the reader, and likened Howe to Robert Browning .
Williams, Gary. Hungry Heart. U Massachusetts Press.
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Literary responses Vernon Lee
Shortly after the publication of this book she sent a copy to Robert Browning , assuming he would appreciate the admiration she expresses for his poetry (The Ring and the Book). In June...
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.
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Literary responses Augusta Webster
Dramatic Studies as a whole was acclaimed by reviewers. A reviewer in the Westminster Review of October 1866 wrote that Mrs. Webster shows not only originality, but what is nearly as rare, trained intellect and...
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.
Shore, Arabella. First and Last Poems. Grant Richards.
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Literary responses Charlotte Mew
May Sinclair thought Madeleine magnificent, having depths & depths of passion & of sheer beauty.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
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She also enjoyed the high Victorian melodrama of Mew's reading aloud.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
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Despite her efforts to bring The Farmer's...
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...
Literary responses Augusta Webster
The play was a critical but notThe Athenæum's review criticized AW for borrowing too heavily for her style from Sir Henry Taylor and Robert Browning :The result of this over-fidelity to her model...
Literary responses Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
The Dictionary of Literary Biography called Bitter HerbsCADS 's most complex and best volume of poetry.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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The reviewer in the New York Times praised her for having the dramatic succinctness of Browning ...
Literary responses Augusta Webster
The Athenæum reviewer was not convinced the volume merited publication, pronouncing that the essays stand condemned. Light articles meant to be read and forgotten are not worth republishing in a permanent form, and it is...
Literary responses Ouida
Critic Kenneth Churchill argues that Ouida was the first English writer to chronicle the sense of growing disillusion
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale Research.
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with the practical outcomes of the new state established in Italy by the Risorgimento. She...
Literary responses Augusta Webster
In the 1870s and 1880s AW was mentioned in periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic—in Harper's and Scribner's, for instance, as well as in English publications—as one of the leading women poets of...
Literary responses Michael Field
Robert Browning responded to the fair copy of Long Ago, making few suggestions but counselling the excision of a relatively explicit poem that was indeed omitted. He declined to write a preface for this...
Literary responses L. S. Bevington
Unlike LSB 's first volume of poetry, this achieved some success in literary circles while it was largely ignored by the scientific community.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press.
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The Academy comprehensively panned it, terming it flatulent trash...
Literary responses Frances Eleanor Trollope
Charles Dickens had at one time noted FET 's literary talent,
Stebbins, Lucy Poate, and Richard Poate Stebbins. The Trollopes. The Chronicle of a Writing Family. Columbia University Press.
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and he serialised Mabel's Progress in 1867 in All The Year Round.
Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. HarperCollins.
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Isa Blagden insinuated in a letter to Robert Browning

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