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Bibliography
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(1996)
Robert Browning (Studies in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature)
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Selections.
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The Plays of Robert Browning (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
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(1985)
BROWNING (LAUREL POETRY SERIES)
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(1980)
The Byzantine Empire
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Born May 7, 1812 in Camberwell, London. His father was a senior clerk with the Bank of London and his mother was an excellent amateur pianist. His father’s family owned sugar plantations in the West Indies, but Browning’s father was an abolitionist.
Robert began writing verses at the age of 6. He had attended private school, but preferred to be tutored at home. By age 14, he was fluent in French, Greek, Italian, and Latin. He was admirer of Percy Shelley, and following Shelley’s example, he became and atheist and a vegetarian (both of which he later gave up). He attended University College London as he was unable to study at Oxford University or Cambridge University due to his mother’s evangelical faith.
His first work was published anonymously in 1833, at the age of 21.
In 1845, Browning met Elizabeth Barrett. They wrote to one another for over the twenty months before eloping and fleeing to Italy. There they had a child, Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning, nicknamed Pen, in 1849.
His work was relatively obscure until his middle age. While in Florence, he worked on the poems that comprised his two-volume Men and Women. Unfortunately, these volumes did not have wide acclaim until after Elizabeth’s death and Browning’s return to England.
Browning died in his son’s home in Venice in December 1889. He is buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey, next to that of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Robert began writing verses at the age of 6. He had attended private school, but preferred to be tutored at home. By age 14, he was fluent in French, Greek, Italian, and Latin. He was admirer of Percy Shelley, and following Shelley’s example, he became and atheist and a vegetarian (both of which he later gave up). He attended University College London as he was unable to study at Oxford University or Cambridge University due to his mother’s evangelical faith.
His first work was published anonymously in 1833, at the age of 21.
In 1845, Browning met Elizabeth Barrett. They wrote to one another for over the twenty months before eloping and fleeing to Italy. There they had a child, Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning, nicknamed Pen, in 1849.
His work was relatively obscure until his middle age. While in Florence, he worked on the poems that comprised his two-volume Men and Women. Unfortunately, these volumes did not have wide acclaim until after Elizabeth’s death and Browning’s return to England.
Browning died in his son’s home in Venice in December 1889. He is buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey, next to that of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
