Robert Browning

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Standard Name: Browning, Robert
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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.

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The volume includes literary criticism on works by Richard Watson Dixon and William Butler Yeats . The memoir The Drawing-Room recalls Robert Browning 's visit to MEC 's childhood home. Recollections of Mrs. Fanny Kemble
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Michael Field
Both Edith and Katharine contributed to this extraordinary journal, giving their impressions of travel, art, religion, death, and love. They also record encounters with their literary contemporaries, including Robert Browning , George Meredith , John Ruskin
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Jenkins
Daniel Dunglas Home was, said a reviewer of EJ 's book, the most successful of all the Victorian mediums. Among his many supporters were Anna Maria and Samuel Carter Hall .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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EJ sets...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jo Shapcott
Epigraphs to particular poems quote Chaucer , Swift , Elizabeth Barrett , Elizabeth Bishop , Geoffrey Bateson , and (most frequently) Elizabeth Hardwick . The title-poem (called by a reviewer Kafka esque)
Wormald, Mark. “Making a virtue of double vision”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4497, 9–15 June 1989, pp. 241-2.
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exemplifies...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Fuller
In her review Miss Barrett 's Poems she praised the English poet's majesty and her poetic vision but noted also her lack of economy and the stiffness of her verse.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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She reviewed works by...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Camilla Crosland
Since she was well-connected in London literary circles, she was able to include in her memoir recollections of time spent working with the annuals and of literary figures such as Grace Aguilar , Lady Blessington
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Augusta Webster
She omits reviews from this collection, but provides readers with an opportunity to consider literary topics. The Translation of Poetry argues that because [i]n poetry the form of the thought is part of the thought...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text John Oliver Hobbes
The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius , John Wesley , and Tolstoy .
Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray, 1911.
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In Dante and Botticelli she argues from her two Italian examples that the best possible training for...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jessie White Mario
In a review of Robert Browning 's collected letters, One Letter More From Robert (March 1899) she quotes an unpublished letter sent from Browning to Anna Jameson , which, she argues, displays the Brownings' true...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ella Hepworth Dixon
In a chapter devoted to Some Women Writers she praises, among others, Sheila Kaye-Smith , Margaret Kennedy (particularly for The Constant Nymph), Elizabeth von Arnim , and Violet Hunt . Authors who receive whole...
Travel Clementina Black
While in Florence, they stayed at Casa Guidi, where the BrowningsRobert Browning had lived twenty years earlier.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000.
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Travel Anne Thackeray Ritchie
The Thackerays visited Rome, Genoa, Leghorn and Pisa. Their friends in Rome included the BrowningsElizabeth Barrett Browning , the American sculptor William Wetmore Story , and Adelaide (Kemble) Sartoris (whose home rehearsals for concerts...
Travel Vernon Lee
VL was at this time a guest of Mary Robinson and her family. She combined her connections with theirs in order to meet a number of major cultural figures: Sir Leslie Stephen , Robert Browning
Travel Elizabeth Barrett Browning
After being secretly married the previous week, EBB and Robert Browning left London for their honeymoon in Paris.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
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Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2024, 14 vols. to date.
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Travel Michael Field
Pen was the son of the late Elizabeth and Robert Browning and Sarinna the sister of Robert. Always prone to ill-health, Edith came down with a fever at the start of the visit.
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray, 1933.
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