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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Intertextuality and Influence Gladys Henrietta Schütze
The title phrase opens one of the best-known poems by scholar and poet Francis William Bourdillon . GHS quotes a stanza from it, along with other, more canonical poets from Ovid through Milton and Wordsworth
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 ...
Textual Production Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
CADS published the final novel in her feminist Some Wives trilogy, Mrs. Noakes, An Ordinary Woman.
The protagonist's name reflects the use (in legal texts, as well as by such writers as Robert Browning
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...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Sewell
At a dinner party, ES met Lady Augusta Ward , Robert Browning , Arthur Stanley (Dean of Westminster), and William Vernon Harcourt , among other prominent people.
Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jo Shapcott
Epigraphs to particular poems quote Chaucer , Swift , Elizabeth Barrett , Elizabeth Bishop , Geoffrey Bateson , and (most frequently) Elizabeth Hardwick . The title-poem (called by a reviewer Kafka esque)
Wormald, Mark. “Making a virtue of double vision”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4497, pp. 241-2.
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exemplifies...
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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Occupation Elizabeth Siddal
ES was preparing illustrations for ballads by William Allingham ; she also worked on engravings for texts by Wordsworth , Scott , Tennyson , and Browning .
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago.
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Occupation Elizabeth Siddal
Dante Gabriel Rossetti showed Robert Browning some drawings by ES of a scene from Pippa Passes, with which Rossetti reported him delighted beyond measure.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Editors Doughty, Oswald and John Robert Wahl, Clarendon Press.
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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...
Friends, Associates Mary Somerville
MS met Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning in Florence, and was in turn visited by Longfellow .
Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, Roberts Brothers.
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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,...
Intertextuality and Influence G. B. Stern
She begins by quoting in its entirety Robert Browning 's poem entitled Memorabilia, which as she observes is better known by its opening line, Ah, did you once see Shelley plain?
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
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She approaches...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Stewart
The novel is set in southern France: the action begins in Avignon and concludes in Marseilles. Epigraphs to chapters range through the traditional English literary canon—Chaucer , Spenser , Shakespeare , Robert Browning
Textual Production Lesley Storm
LS 's early novels appeared in quick succession after this first publication. In the next two years she published Head in the Wind (1928) and Small Rain (1929). Between 1931 and 1933, she published five...

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