Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Flower Adams | Nearer, My God, to Thee, written when SFA
was only twenty-one, has often been misattributed to Harriet Beecher Stowe
. |
| 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Isa Blagden | A Model and a Wife has a principal cast of three: John Herbert, a solitary English painter living in Rome in ill health; Nell Spencer, a young English heiress (once an abandoned orphan in India... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Theodora Benson | Robert Browning
's poem to Emily Patmore
, the original angel in the house, is quoted at the head of the first chapter. Unlike TB
's first novel, this is a romance with a consummated... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Isa Blagden | The final line invokes Wordsworth
's The Female Vagrant, andIB
also echoes Thomas Hood
's Bridge of Sighs and the more general iconography of the fallen woman. This treatment of what it meant... |
| 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, 1902. x |
| 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 | 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. qtd. in Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1. 5 |
| Literary responses | Michael Field | Robert Browning
responded to the fair copy of Long Ago, making few suggestions but counselling the excision of a relatively explicit poem that was indeed omitted. He declined to write a preface for this... |
| Literary responses | L. S. Bevington | Unlike LSB
's first volume of poetry, this achieved some success in literary circles while it was largely ignored by the scientific community. Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press, 1967, 12 vols. 9: 228 |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | Many friends of GE
including Edith J. Simcox
, plus biographers such as Gordon S. Haight
, believed that readers had reason to be grateful to G. H. Lewes
for his tireless protection of GE |
| Literary responses | Mary Russell Mitford | Elizabeth Barrett
and Robert Browning
were dismayed at the violation of their privacy (and particularly the treatment of Edward Barrett
's drowning) by MRM
's Recollections. Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957. 258 |
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