Robert Browning
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Robert Browning was a major English poet and playwright of the Victorian era, best known for developing the dramatic monologue—a poetic form in which a single character speaks to an imaginary listener, revealing their personality and motivations. His innovative approach to poetry and theatrical works made him one of the most influential literary figures of the nineteenth century.
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- 1812-05-07
- Died
- 1889-12-12
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Robert Browning was born in Camberwell, England, on May 7, 1812, the first son of Robert and Sarah Wiedemann Browning. His father was a man of fine intellect and equally fine character, who worked as a well-paid clerk in the Bank of England and so managed to amass a library of around 6,000 books — many of them highly obscure and arcane. Thus Robert was raised in a household with good literary resources. His mother, to whom he was ardently attached <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Robert+Browni
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6 objects attributed to Robert Browning, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterisation, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax.
His early long poems Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835) were acclaimed, but his reputation dwindled for a time – his 1840 poem Sordello was seen as wilfully obscure – and took over a decade to recover, by which time he had moved from Shelleyan forms to a more personal style. In 1846, he married fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett and moved to Italy. By her death in 1861, he had published the collection Men and Women (1855). His Dramatis Personae (1864) and book-length epic poem The Ring and the Book (1868–1869) made him a leading poet. By his death in 1889, he was seen as a sage and philosopher-poet who had fed into Victorian social and political discourse. Societies for studying his work survived in Britain and the US into the 20th century.
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1812 births1889 deaths19th-century English poetsAlumni of University College LondonBurials at Westminster AbbeyEnglish male poetsEnglish people of German descentEnglish people of Scottish descentFellows of Balliol College, OxfordPeople from CamberwellRobert BrowningUse Oxford spelling from January 2018
