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Robert Browning
Robert Browning 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.
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culture · English poet and playwright (1812–1889) · playwright · poet · writer · dramaturge · also Robert Browning, Browning, Robert Barrett Browning
Born 7 May 1812 · Died 12 December 1889 · Q233265
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Robert Browning recites "How They Brought The Good News From Ghent To Aix"
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2026· 4 entries
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Bassmaster: Browning and Schmitt’s final day charge
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IQAir: South Browning Air Quality Index (AQI) and USA Air Pollution
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Poem of the week: House by Robert Browning
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: Poem of the Week: Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister by Robert Browning
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2015· 1 entry
The Guardian: Robert Browning's new poem - review: from the archive, 14 May 1873
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2014· 1 entry
The Guardian: Dylan Thomas’s list of Robert Browning poems is found on back of an envelope
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1951· 1 entry
And the other directed by Mike Figgis in 1994
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1930· 1 entry
The story of Browning and his wife was made into the play The Barretts of Wimpole Street, by Rudolph Besier
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1914· 1 entry
The American modernist composer Charles Ives created the Robert Browning Overture, a dense and darkly dramatic piece with gloomy overtones reminiscent of the Second Viennese School
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1902· 3 entries
“Home was detected in a vulgar fraud.”
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“the whole display of hands, spirit utterances etc., was a cheat and imposture.”
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Browning's son Pen wrote: "Home was detected in a vulgar fraud
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1890· 1 entry
On the anniversary of his death, at a gathering of his admirers, it was said to be the first time anyone's voice "had been heard from beyond the grave
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1889· 5 entries
Died 1889-12-12.
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“Quem ouve música sente que a sua solidão, de repente, se povoa.”
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Was seen as a sage and philosopher-poet who had fed into Victorian social and political discourse
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“Who hears music feels his solitude Peopled at once.”
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“What's come to perfection perishes.Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven;Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.”
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1887· 1 entry
Browning produced the major work of his later years, Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day
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1883· 1 entry
“Never the Time and the Place”
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1881· 1 entry
And his work was recognised as belonging within the British literary canon
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1878· 1 entry
Revisited Italy for the first time in the seventeen years since Elizabeth's death, and returned there on several further occasions
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1877· 1 entry
Wrote a poem explaining "Why I am a Liberal" in which he declared: "Who then dares hold – emancipated thus / His fellow shall continue bound
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1868· 1 entry
After five years' work, he completed and published the long blank-verse poem The Ring and the Book
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1861· 1 entry
Had published the collection Men and Women (1855)
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1853· 1 entry
Browning worked on the poems that eventually composed his two-volume Men and Women, for which he is now well known, although in 1855, when they were published, they made relatively little impact
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1850· 2 entries
Was a serious contender to become Poet Laureate, the position eventually going to Tennyson
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti came across it in the Reading Room of the British Museum and wrote to Browning, then in Florence, to ask if he was the author
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1849· 1 entry
Their only child, Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning, nicknamed "Penini" or "Pen", was born in 1849.
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1846· 1 entry
Married fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett and moved to Italy
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1845· 1 entry
Browning met the poet Elizabeth Barrett, six years his senior, who lived as a semi-invalid in her father's house in Wimpole Street, London
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1840· 1 entry
And met with widespread derision, gaining him the reputation of wanton carelessness and obscurity
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1838· 1 entry
Visited Italy looking for background for Sordello, a long poem in heroic couplets, presented as the imaginary biography of the Mantuan bard spoken of by Dante in the Divine Comedy, canto 6 of Purgatory, set against a
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1834· 1 entry
Accompanied the Chevalier George de Benkhausen, the Russian consul-general, on a brief visit to St Petersburg and began Paracelsus, which was published in 1835
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1812· 1 entry
Born 1812-05-07.
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