Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Louisa Catherine Shore | Elegies was praised by Robert Browning
, George Meredith
, and William Gladstone
. Shore, Arabella. First and Last Poems. Grant Richards. v |
| 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 | Augusta Webster | The play was a critical but notThe Athenæum's review criticized AW
for borrowing too heavily for her style from Sir Henry Taylor
and Robert Browning
:The result of this over-fidelity to her model... |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | Ouida | Critic Kenneth Churchill
argues that Ouida was the first English writer to chronicle the sense of growing disillusion Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale Research. 43: 376 |
| Literary responses | Augusta Webster | In the 1870s and 1880s AW
was mentioned in periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic—in Harper's and Scribner's, for instance, as well as in English publications—as one of the leading women poets of... |
| 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. 9: 228 |
| Literary responses | Frances Eleanor Trollope | Charles Dickens
had at one time noted FET
's literary talent, Stebbins, Lucy Poate, and Richard Poate Stebbins. The Trollopes. The Chronicle of a Writing Family. Columbia University Press. 235 Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. HarperCollins. 1000 |
| 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. 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 |
| 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... |
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