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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Anne Ogle | The success of AO
's first novel introduced her to England's literary circles. She knew the BrowningRobert Browning
s, the CarlyleThomas Carlyle
s, the ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
s, Tennyson
, and Swinburne
. She also kept company with Mary Louisa Molesworth
. Meyers, Terry L. “Swinburne Reshapes His Grand Passion: A Version by ’Ashford Owen’”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 31 , No. 1, West Virginia University, pp. 111-15. 111 |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Oliphant | While in Rome, MO
met Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press. 31 |
| Textual Production | Carola Oman | She used her married name, C. Lenanton, for Miss Barrett
's Elopement, 1929 (about the famous Browning
courtship), and "Fair stood the Wind. . .", 1930 (one of her several novels with... |
| Friends, Associates | Ouida | In London, Ouida
took a suite at her old home, the Langham Hotel
, where in one night she entertained Robert Browning
, Oscar Wilde
, Robert Lytton
, and Lord Ronald Gower
... |
| 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. 43: 376 |
| Publishing | Mollie Panter-Downes | MPD
began submitting material to the New Yorker in or before 1937, against the judgement of her agent, Nancy Pearn
of Curtis Brown
, who is said to have exclaimed: Oh no dear, no, no... |
| Friends, Associates | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
knew personally and corresponded with many of the Victorian intelligentsia. In addition to her Langham Place associates already mentioned, her literary friends and acquaintances included Matilda Hays
, Harriet Martineau
, Anthony Trollope
,... |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Coventry Patmore | CP
's early contacts included Alfred Tennyson
, Robert Browning
, Thomas Carlyle
, Ralph Waldo Emerson
, and John Ruskin
. Later in life, he knew Gerard Manley Hopkins
and Edmund Gosse
. Among... |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | She adapted her title from Robert Browning
's Last Ride Together, which has we for they. She decided to use a pseudonym for this entirely different kind of book, because she really didn't... |
| 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. 5 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Adelaide Procter | AP
's mother, born Anne Skepper
, was a clever and observant woman, a frequent and influential hostess to the London literary elite. Frances Kemble
considered her notable for her pungent epigrams and brilliant sallies... |
| Reception | Adelaide Procter | Critic Gill Gregory
argues that this poem is part of a series, with A Woman's Answer (a title Procter adopted from Robert Browning
) and A Woman's Last Word, in which she responds to... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
also knew Charles Dickens
, Thomas Carlyle
, and the Brownings
—she admired Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(whom she had met for half an hour) as so interesting a woman. Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press. 2: 299 Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 89-100 Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, p. Various pages. 1: 225, 257 |
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