Robert Browning

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born

May 07, 1812 in Camberwell, London, England, The United Kingdom

died

December 13, 1901

gender

male

genre

Poetry

influences

Shelley, Voltaire

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Robert Browning was a British poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

Browning began writing poetry at age 13. These poems were eventually collected, but were later destoryed by Browning himself. In 1833, Browning's "Pauline" was published and recieved a cool receptation. Harold Bloom believes that John Stuart Mill's review of the poem pointed Browning in the direction of the dramatic monologue.

In 1845, Browning wrote a letter to the poet Elizabeth Barrett, professing that he loved her poetry and her. In 1846, the couple eloped to Europe, eventually settling in Florence in 1847. They had a son Pen.

Upon Elizabeth Barret Browning's death in 1861, Brownin...more

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Average rating: 3.99 · 1,723 ratings · 125 reviews · 339 distinct works

	My Last Duchess and Other Poems by Robert Browning, Shane Weller (Editor), Dover Thrift Editions 4.05 avg rating — 606 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning, Kate Greenaway (Illustrator) 3.73 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 1842 — 57 editions	My rating:
	Selected Poems by Robert Browning, Daniel Karlin (Editor) 4.03 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 1886 — 34 editions	My rating:
	Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came (Phoenix 60p Paperbacks) 4.20 avg rating — 82 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Ring And The Book 3.90 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1869 — 46 editions	My rating:
	The Works of Robert Browning (Wordsworth Poetry Library) 4.11 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	Men and Women and Other Poems 3.90 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1855 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barret Barrett 1845-1846 Vol I (1899) 4.32 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1969 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Robert Browning's Poetry by James F. Loucks (Editor), Andrew M. Stauffer (Editor) 3.90 avg rating — 902 ratings — published 1911 — 17 editions	My rating:
	The Agamemnon of �schylus by Aeschylus, Robert Browning, Helen Clarke 3.80 avg rating — 1,634 ratings — published -458 — 142 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Robert Browning

“Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.”
― Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning

tags: music , power-of-music , solitude

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“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?”
― Robert Browning, Men and Women and Other Poems

tags: aspiration , heaven , inspirational

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“There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.”
― Robert Browning

tags: fullness , truth

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