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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Reception Augusta Webster
Portraits, a sustained feminist engagement with the form of the dramatic monologue, remains AW 's most studied work. While clearly influenced by male practitioners, Browning in particular, her poems operate quite differently from many...
Reception Michael Field
Edith sent Browning a copy of this book, calling it the first fruits of thought spent by a new labourer on the vine-yard of human life. If you will taste the fruit, it will not...
Residence Julia Wedgwood
JW met Robert Browning at a dinner party at her parents' home at 1 Cumberland Place, Regent's Park, where she still lived.
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, p. vii - xxiii.
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Wedgwood, Barbara, and Hensleigh Wedgwood. The Wedgwood Circle, 1730-1897: Four Generations of a Family and Their Friends. Studio Vista.
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Residence Freya Stark
Robert Stark had loved Asolo since his student days in Rome, when he was shown the town by Pen Browning , the son of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning . Robert and Flora's close friend,...
Residence Elizabeth Barrett Browning
EBB and her new husband Robert Browning , travelling on from Paris to Italy, settled for the time being at Pisa.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton.
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Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press.
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Residence Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The BrowningsRobert Browning moved from Pisa to Florence.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton.
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Residence Elizabeth Barrett Browning
She and Robert first rented the apartment on this date for a three-month term and moved out briefly when their lease was up because the winter rent was double. They returned on 9 May 1848...
Textual Features L. S. Bevington
Here LSB moves away from the metrical experimentation and aesthetic focus of Poems, Lyrics, and Sonnets, to produce poems that describe a utopian vision of ideal society destined to be cultivated through revolutionary political...
Textual Features Margaret Forster
Forster seeks here to replace the traditional image of Barrett Browning as the helpless victim of one man, rescued by another, with a view which sets her at the centre of her own life and...
Textual Features Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This powerful evocation of a female African-American slave, who challenges her pursuers and thereby forestalls her capture moments before she dies, draws on EBB 's awareness of the Barrett family's history as Jamaican slaveholders. A...
Textual Features Elizabeth Barrett Browning
EBB maintained this engagement with contemporary political issues in Casa Guidi Windows, Aurora Leigh, and Poems Before Congress. A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London, included in her last poems...
Textual Features Julia Wedgwood
JW 's correspondence with Robert Browning is remarkably free and explicit about her emotional involvement with him: I prefer the scorn which falls on those who say too much, to the price . ....
Textual Features Catherine Fanshawe
One of the poems, a delightful Ode which imitates or parodies several well-known passages in various works by Gray , was written not by CF but by her friend Mary Berry , some time before...
Textual Features Constance Naden
The first section contains mostly dramatic monologues which embody dilemmas of balancing love and ambition, intellect and emotion. Their language is simple but fairly formal, and their characters, if not specifically connected with some historical...
Textual Features Christina Rossetti
Influences that manifested themselves somewhat later in CR 's career were those of fairy tales—Perrault , Keightley , and later Hans Christian Andersen —and later poets including Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning , whom...

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