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Robert Browning
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Frances Eleanor Trollope | Charles Dickens
had at one time noted FET
's literary talent, Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. HarperCollins. 1000 |
| 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. 258 |
| Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Robert Buchanan
in the Athenæum speculated that the author was a woman, and called the poem a rhythmical paraphrase of the prose popularized by the Times Correspondents. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1739 (1861): 259 |
| 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 |
| Literary responses | Emily Hickey | After reading A Sculptor, Robert Browning
wrote to EH
, I suppose I should be as truly bound to you if you were simply a student of poetry—nowise a proficient in its composition; whereas... |
| Literary responses | Isa Blagden | Henry James
dismissed IB
's novels as the inevitable nice novel or two of the wandering English spinster. West, Rebecca. Harriet Hume. Lester and Orpen Dennys. 446 |
| 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. Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press. 75 |
| Literary responses | Anna Swanwick | Again letters of appreciation poured in, though several people confessedly wrote without, or before, studying the text at all carefully. Robert Browning
wrote, Yours has been a wonderful undertaking. Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 106 |
| 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. xviii |
| 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. 172-3 |
| 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. v |
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