qtd. in
Connolly, Sally. “Woolly whispers of the past”. Times Literary Supplement, 13 Apr. 2001, p. 25.
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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Violet Fane | Another story, The True Story of a Midnight Murder, humorously details the late-night execution of a large mosquito. [F]or the first time in my life, the narrator admits, I knew that I, also, thirsted... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Shorter pieces here include many sonnets, the most striking and complex of which are perhaps the two dedicated to George Sand
that explore the apparent contradictions of gender and genius. To George Sand. A Desire... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | U. A. Fanthorpe | UAF
was anthologized by Adrian Barlow
in Calling Kindred: Poems from the English Speaking World, 1993. At Poetry International 2000, she chose Robert Browning
as her Presiding Spirit. |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Jessie White Mario | After the inaugural lecture, the New York Herald called her words very chaste and poetical and her enunciation clear and distinct. qtd. in Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972. 75 |
| Literary responses | Augusta Webster | The Athenæum reviewer was not convinced the volume merited publication, pronouncing that the essays stand condemned. Light articles meant to be read and forgotten are not worth republishing in a permanent form, and it is... |
| 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 | 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. 240 |
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