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 Katharine Bruce Glasier
The book features as its heroine Aimée Furniss, a recent graduate from Newnham College who has just taken up her first position teaching at a girls' school. Though she finds teaching rewarding, her experiences with...
Intertextuality and Influence Ella D'Arcy
It reverses the traditional story of a male philanderer rejected by a pure-minded woman. Lulie Thayer, an American girl, pursues, loves, and drops every man she meets. She is an adventuress . . . but...
Intertextuality and Influence Elinor Glyn
She begins by defining what romance means to her, and she explains that in her life the fundamental impulse behind every action, has been the desire for romance.
Glyn, Elinor. Romantic Adventure. E. P. Dutton.
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To her, romance is ideal love—spiritual...
Intertextuality and Influence Kathleen Nott
KN writes often of intense human emotion without particularising its circumstances. She uses imagery of the natural world and of animals to convey moods and ideas. Her scenes are often city-scapes of the present instant...
Leisure and Society Anna Brownell Jameson
ABJ attended (with Robert Browning ) a lecture given by Thomas Carlyle on The Hero as Divinity, and a week later on The Hero as Poet (later part of On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the...
Leisure and Society Mary Boyle
MB was an avid reader. Her favourite authors included Walter Landor , with whom she exchanged frequent letters, the BrowningsRobert Browning , and most especially, her literary godfather, G. P. R. James .
Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray.
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Leisure and Society Isa Blagden
IB was fond of society life, had a wide circle of friends, and was noted for her hospitality. Her home at the Villa Brichieri, with its terraced garden overlooking Florence and the Arno, was...
Leisure and Society Emily Hickey
EH was a frequent participant in amateur dramatic readings. She often read the works of Robert Browning . Shakespeare , perhaps owing to her childhood deprivation, was also a particular favourite. She was praised as...
Leisure and Society Dorothy Bussy
Dorothy's parents numbered among their friends and acquaintances many prominent artists, scientists, and politicians. These included Browning , Ruskin , Tennyson , Jane and Thomas Carlyle , Francis Galton , Percy Lubbock , and John Tyndall
Literary responses Jane Taylor
Most famous and beloved of all the contents of these books is undoubtedly Jane's The Star, better known as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, sometimes classed as a nursery rhyme, which first appeared in...
Literary responses Eliza Ogilvy
One critic felt that Mrs. Ogilvy is among those who have listened too long and too submissively to Tennyson and the BrowningsRobert Browning .
Ogilvy, Eliza et al. “Introduction and Appendices”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, edited by Peter N. Heydon and Philip Kelley, Quadrangle, pp. xi - xxiv; 175.
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Literary responses Augusta Webster
Dramatic Studies as a whole was acclaimed by reviewers. A reviewer in the Westminster Review of October 1866 wrote that Mrs. Webster shows not only originality, but what is nearly as rare, trained intellect and...
Literary responses Julia Ward Howe
Many critics praised the poems' raw emotional power. Ednah Dow Cheney , the only female reviewer, commented on their galvanic effect on the reader, and likened Howe to Robert Browning .
Williams, Gary. Hungry Heart. U Massachusetts Press.
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Literary responses Vernon Lee
Shortly after the publication of this book she sent a copy to Robert Browning , assuming he would appreciate the admiration she expresses for his poetry (The Ring and the Book). In June...
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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