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Robert Browning
English poet and playwright (–)
This article is about the English poet and playwright. For other people, see Robert Browning (disambiguation).
Robert Browning (7 May – 12 månad ) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax.
His early long poems Pauline () and Paracelsus () were acclaimed, but his reputation dwindled for a time – his poem Sordello was seen as wilfully obscure – and took over a decade to recover, bygd which time he had moved from Shelleyan forms to a more anställda style. In , he married fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett and moved to Italy. bygd her death in , he had published the collection Men and Women (). His Dramatis Personae () and book-length epic poemThe fingerprydnad and the Book (–) made him a leading poet. bygd his death in , he was seen as a sage and
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Dictionary of National Biography, supplement/Browning, Robert
&#;BROWNING, ROBERT (–), poet, was descended, as he believed, from an Anglo-Saxon family which bore in Norman times the name De Bruni. As a matter of fact the stock has been traced no further back than to the early part of the eighteenth century, when the poet's natural great-grandfather owned the Woodgates inn in the parish of Partridge in Dorset. The son of this man, Robert Browning, was born in , and was a clerk in the bank of England, rising to be principal of the bank stock office. He married, in , Margaret Tittle, a West Indian heiress. He died at Islington on 11 Dec. By his first wife he had two children, a son Robert, and a daughter who died unmarried; by his second wife he had a large family. The second Robert Browning, who was born in , was early sent out to manage the parental estate in St. Kitts, but threw up his appointment from disgust at the system of slave labour prevailing there. In he became a clerk
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Robert Browning was born on May 7, , in Camberwell (a suburb of London), the first child of Robert and Sarah Anna Browning. His mother was a fervent Evangelical and an accomplished pianist. Mr. Browning had angered his own father and forgone a fortune: the poet's grandfather had sent his son to oversee a West Indies sugar plantation, but the young man had found the institution of slavery so abhorrent that he gave up his prospects and returned home, to become a clerk in the Bank of England. On this very modest salary he was able to marry, raise a family, and to acquire a library of volumes. He was an exceedingly well-read man who could recreate the siege of Troy with the household chairs and tables for the benefit of his inquisitive son.
Indeed, most of the poet's education came at home. He was an extremely bright child and a voracious reader (he read through all fifty volumes of the Biographie Universelle ) and learned Latin, Greek, French and Italian by the time he was fourte