Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Robert Browning
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Standard Name: Browning, Robert
Used Form: Z
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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton first Earl Lytton | His international travel and family ties to England's literary scene ensured him a wide social circle. He knew Charles Dickens
, John Forster
, and Frances Mary Peard
. While living in Florence, he became... |
| Friends, Associates | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
knew personally and corresponded with many of the Victorian intelligentsia. In addition to her Langham Place associates already mentioned, her literary friends and acquaintances included Matilda Hays
, Harriet Martineau
, Anthony Trollope
,... |
| Friends, Associates | Violet Fane | VF
made her mark on London's social life. She knew Robert Browning
, Algernon Swinburne
, Alexander William Kinglake
, Alfred Austin
, the Duchess of Argyll
, James McNeil Whistler
, and Lillie Langtry |
| Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
's later social circle included many writers: Sydney, Lady Morgan
, who became a close friend and for whom GJ
acted as amanuensis; author Lady Llanover
; author and publisher Douglas Jerrold
; and... |
| Friends, Associates | Rhoda Broughton | RB
's vitality, sincerity, and pungent wit gained her the friendship of some of the most notable people of her day. |
| Friends, Associates | Isa Blagden | IB
became acquainted with the BrowningsElizabeth Barrett Browning
in Florence. Browning, Robert, and Isa Blagden. “Introduction”. Dearest Isa: Robert Browning’s Letters to Isabella Blagden, edited by Edward C. McAleer, Greenwood Press, 1970, p. xix - xxxiii. xxiii |
| Health | Julia Wedgwood | Throughout 1867, JW
suffered from depression, which ran in the family. (The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes that much of her time was taken up in caring for family invalids and hypochondriacs and other... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Shorter pieces here include many sonnets, the most striking and complex of which are perhaps the two dedicated to George Sand
that explore the apparent contradictions of gender and genius. To George Sand. A Desire... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | U. A. Fanthorpe | UAF
was anthologized by Adrian Barlow
in Calling Kindred: Poems from the English Speaking World, 1993. At Poetry International 2000, she chose Robert Browning
as her Presiding Spirit. qtd. in Connolly, Sally. “Woolly whispers of the past”. Times Literary Supplement, 13 Apr. 2001, p. 25. 25 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Bruce Glasier | The book features as its heroine Aimée Furniss, a recent graduate from Newnham College
who has just taken up her first position teaching at a girls' school. Though she finds teaching rewarding, her experiences with... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ella D'Arcy | It reverses the traditional story of a male philanderer rejected by a pure-minded woman. Lulie Thayer, an American girl, pursues, loves, and drops every man she meets. She is an adventuress . . . but... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | The chapters are headed with epigraphs from writers including Tennyson
, the BrowningsRobert Browning
, and her father
.The book pays tribute to the vanished Kensington of ATR
's childhood, still in the 1850s a venerable... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elinor Glyn | She begins by defining what romance means to her, and she explains that in her life the fundamental impulse behind every action, has been the desire for romance. Glyn, Elinor. Romantic Adventure. E. P. Dutton, 1937. 2 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Kathleen Nott | KN
writes often of intense human emotion without particularising its circumstances. She uses imagery of the natural world and of animals to convey moods and ideas. Her scenes are often city-scapes of the present instant... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Isa Blagden | Agnes Tremorne is a fairly sentimental novel of art, misfortune, and romance set in Rome during the struggle for Italian independence in the 1830s. Agnes Tremorne—the novel's heroine and protagonist—is both a devoted nurse to... |
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