Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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 |
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death | Alfred Tennyson | He was buried in Westminster Abbey on October 12, next to the grave of Robert Browning
. His estate at death was valued at £57,206 13s. 9d. |
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... |
Education | Jessie Fothergill | She acquired much knowledge through her voracious consumption of books: I loved books, and read all that I could get hold of, and have had many a rebuke for poring over those books instead of... |
Education | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | From twelve to fifteen, Millicent Garrett
(later MGF
) was sent to a boarding school at Blackheath in Kent, run by a Miss [Louisa] Browning, who was an aunt of the poet Robert Browning
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray, 1931. 6-7, 10, 15 |
Education | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it... |
Education | Dora Greenwell | Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke, 1885. 73 |
Education | Ella Hepworth Dixon | EHD
received a particularly comprehensive education, though she says she acquired only a small amount of knowledge, at the hands of private instructors, all of whom were male. (Her father disliked schools for young ladies... |
Education | Denise Levertov | DL
never went to school, but was educated at home by her mother up to the age of twelve. She then began ballet lessons (for which she had a passion, but which caused her to... |
Education | Marjorie Bowen | |
Education | Frances Ridley Havergal | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dinah Mulock Craik | George Lillie Craik became (following his marriage to Dinah Mulock and possibly as a result of his connection with her) a partner in the Macmillan publishing firm
. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983. 15 |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Una Troubridge | Sir Henry Taylor
, UT
's paternal grandfather, was a poet and playwright whose verses were admired by Wordsworth
and whose plays (Victorian melodrama) were performed by the famous actor William Charles Macready
. Taylor's... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Coventry Patmore | Emily, who was noted in literary and artistic circles for intelligence and beauty, was the subject of works by Thomas Woolner
and John Everett Millais
, and inspired Robert Browning
's poem A Face... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Robert Browning
wrote a letter to Elizabeth Barrett
, effusively praising her poetry. Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990. 143 Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Kelley, Philip, Ronald Hudson, and Scott LewisEditors , Wedgestone Press, 1984. 10: xii |
Timeline
1 November 1907
The British Museum
's reading room reopened after being cleaned and redecorated; the dome was embellished with the names of canonical male writers, beginning with Chaucer
and ending with Browning
.