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.

Connections

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Wealth and Poverty Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
By the time JFLW moved to Oakley Street, her finances were greatly reduced. A day after arriving at the new house, she asked to borrow a sovereign from Constance . Proper household management became difficult...
Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This inheritance, along with a share in a West Indian trading vessel left to her by her uncle Sam on his death in December 1837, gave her an economic independence from her father that her...
Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The death on 3 December 1856 of EBB 's cousin John Kenyon (who had shared her literary interests) brought substantial legacies to both Brownings. The greater amount of his inheritance went to Robert , and...
Travel Dorothy Wellesley
Dorothy Ashton (later DW ) also spent two months in Florence (which she associated with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Robert Browning , while she gave no sign of having heard of the wife of either)...
Travel Vernon Lee
VL was at this time a guest of Mary Robinson and her family. She combined her connections with theirs in order to meet a number of major cultural figures: Sir Leslie Stephen , Robert Browning
Travel Elizabeth Barrett Browning
After being secretly married the previous week, EBB and Robert Browning left London for their honeymoon in Paris.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton.
185-6
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press.
14: x
Travel Michael Field
Pen was the son of the late Elizabeth and Robert Browning and Sarinna the sister of Robert. Always prone to ill-health, Edith came down with a fever at the start of the visit.
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray.
203
Travel Amy Levy
AL , with Clementina Black , stayed at Casa Guidi, Florence, once the home of Elizabeth and Robert Browning .
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
116-17
Travel Anne Thackeray Ritchie
The Thackerays visited Rome, Genoa, Leghorn and Pisa. Their friends in Rome included the BrowningsElizabeth Barrett Browning , the American sculptor William Wetmore Story , and Adelaide (Kemble) Sartoris (whose home rehearsals for concerts...
Travel Clementina Black
While in Florence, they stayed at Casa Guidi, where the BrowningsRobert Browning had lived twenty years earlier.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
116
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Fuller
In her review Miss Barrett 's Poems she praised the English poet's majesty and her poetic vision but noted also her lack of economy and the stiffness of her verse.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
59
She reviewed works by...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Camilla Crosland
Since she was well-connected in London literary circles, she was able to include in her memoir recollections of time spent working with the annuals and of literary figures such as Grace Aguilar , Lady Blessington
Theme or Topic Treated in Text John Oliver Hobbes
The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius , John Wesley , and Tolstoy .
Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray.
31
In Dante and Botticelli she argues from her two Italian examples that the best possible training for...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jessie White Mario
In a review of Robert Browning 's collected letters, One Letter More From Robert (March 1899) she quotes an unpublished letter sent from Browning to Anna Jameson , which, she argues, displays the Brownings' true...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ella Hepworth Dixon
In a chapter devoted to Some Women Writers she praises, among others, Sheila Kaye-Smith , Margaret Kennedy (particularly for The Constant Nymph), Elizabeth von Arnim , and Violet Hunt . Authors who receive whole...

Timeline

1 November 1907: The British Museum's reading room reopened...

Building item

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 .

Texts

Browning, Robert. Asolando. Smith, Elder.
Browning, Robert. Balaustion’s Adventure. Smith, Elder, 1871.
Browning, Robert. Bells and Pomegranates. Edward Moxon, 1846.
Browning, Robert, and Isa Blagden. Dearest Isa: Robert Browning’s Letters to Isabella Blagden. Editor McAleer, Edward C., Greenwood Press.
Browning, Robert. Dramatic Idyls. Smith, Elder, 1879.
Browning, Robert. Dramatis Personae. Chapman and Hall, 1864.
Browning, Robert. “Editorial Materials”. Robert Browning’s Poetry: Authoritative Texts, Criticism, edited by James F. Loucks, W. W. Norton, 1979, p. various pages.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “Editorial Materials”. The Brownings’ Correspondence, edited by Philip Kelley et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984, p. Various pages.
Browning, Robert, and Julia Wedgwood. “Introduction”. Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood: A Broken Friendship as Revealed by Their Letters, edited by Richard Curle, Frederick A. Stokes, 1937, p. vii - xxiii.
Browning, Robert, and Isa Blagden. “Introduction”. Dearest Isa: Robert Browning’s Letters to Isabella Blagden, edited by Edward C. McAleer, Greenwood Press, 1970, p. xix - xxxiii.
Ricks, Christopher et al. “Introduction”. The Brownings: Letters and Poetry, International Collectors Library, 1970, pp. 1-29.
Browning, Robert. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Ring and the Book, edited by Richard D. Altick, Yale University Press, 1971, pp. 7 - 20, 629.
Browning, Robert. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Ring and the Book, edited by Thomas J. Collins and Richard D. Altick, Broadview, 2001, pp. vii - xviii; 765.
Day, Aidan, and Robert Browning. “Introduction, Critical Commentary, and Editorial Materials”. Robert Browning: Selected Poetry and Prose, Routledge, 1991, pp. 1 - 21, 151.
Browning, Robert, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. “Introductory Essay”. Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edward Moxon, 1852.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Last Poems. Editor Browning, Robert, Chapman and Hall, 1862.
Browning, Robert. Men and Women. Chapman and Hall, 1855.
Browning, Robert. “Notes”. Robert Browning, The Poems, edited by John Pettigrew et al., Yale University Press, 1981, pp. 973-1157.
Browning, Robert. Paracelsus. Effingham Wilson, 1835.
Browning, Robert. Pauline. Saunders and Otley, 1833.
Browning, Robert. “Porphyria”. The Monthly Repository.
Browning, Robert, and Julia Wedgwood. Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood: A Broken Friendship as Revealed in Their Letters. Editor Curle, Richard, John Murray and Jonathan Cape, 1937.
Browning, Robert. Robert Browning’s Poetry: Authoritative Texts, Criticism. Editor Loucks, James F., W. W. Norton, 1979.
Browning, Robert. Robert Browning, The Poems. Editors Pettigrew, John and Thomas J. Collins, Yale University Press, 1981.
Browning, Robert. Sordello. Edward Moxon, 1840.