Robert Browning
Robert Browning was born on the 7th May 1912 in South London to Robert Browning, a Bank of England clerk and Sarah Anna Weidemann, an Evangelican and pianist. Browning recieved little formal education as he left University of London having only attended one session and so msot of his education consisted of learning from his father's library at home in Camberwell. With his father's help, he learnt Latin and Greek and read Shelly, Byron and Keats.
Browning’s first important poem was Paracelsus, 1835. It was a dramatic monologue, which described the career of the sixteenth-century alchemist, and established Browning as a familiar name with the reading public as well as a great poet. He wrote Dramatic Lyrics and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, 1842 and 1845 respectively. Along with the 1855 volume Men and Women and the 1864 book Dramatis Personae, these two collections consisted of most of the poems today considered central to the Browning canon.
He visited Italy twice in 1834 and 1844 where he later settled with his wife. He lived with his parents in London until his marriage in 1846. During this period he was wrote majority of his plays and his earlier poetry and these were published with the aid and support of his family.
He married a secretly woman named Elizabeth Barrett, who was also a writer. In 1849, they had a son, Robert "Pen" Browning. After Elizabeths death, in 1861, Browning returned to England with his son and received positive feedback for his Dramatis Personae, The Ring and the Book.
Browning lived and wrote during a time of major societal and intellectual upheaval, and his poems reflect this world. England was becoming increasingly urban, and newspapers daily assaulted the senses with splashy tales of crime and lust in the city. Many people began to lose faith in religion as various new scientific theories rocked society—most notably Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, articulated in his 1859 The Origin of Species, and many questioned the old bases of morality.
His religion changed many times, and this ended up influencing his work. He is most famous for his dramatic monologues which he wrote whilst on holiday on France, Scotland, Italy and Switzerland. He died at his son's home and was buried at Westminister Abbey, and received many distinctions during his lifetime. One of his well-known work includes The Last Duchess.
Robert Browning was born on the 7th May 1912 in South London to Robert Browning, a Bank of England clerk and Sarah Anna Weidemann, an Evangelican and pianist. Browning recieved little formal education as he left University of London having only attended one session and so msot of his education consisted of learning from his father's library at home in Camberwell. With his father's help, he learnt Latin and Greek and read Shelly, Byron and Keats.
Browning’s first important poem was Paracelsus, 1835. It was a dramatic monologue, which described the career of the sixteenth-century alchemist, and established Browning as a familiar name with the reading public as well as a great poet. He wrote Dramatic Lyrics and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, 1842 and 1845 respectively. Along with the 1855 volume Men and Women and the 1864 book Dramatis Personae, these two collections consisted of most of the poems today considered central to the Browning canon.
He visited Italy twice in 1834 and 1844 where he later settled with his wife. He lived with his parents in London until his marriage in 1846. During this period he was wrote majority of his plays and his earlier poetry and these were published with the aid and support of his family.
He married a secretly woman named Elizabeth Barrett, who was also a writer. In 1849, they had a son, Robert "Pen" Browning. After Elizabeths death, in 1861, Browning returned to England with his son and received positive feedback for his Dramatis Personae, The Ring and the Book.
Browning lived and wrote during a time of major societal and intellectual upheaval, and his poems reflect this world. England was becoming increasingly urban, and newspapers daily assaulted the senses with splashy tales of crime and lust in the city. Many people began to lose faith in religion as various new scientific theories rocked society—most notably Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, articulated in his 1859 The Origin of Species, and many questioned the old bases of morality.
His religion changed many times, and this ended up influencing his work. He is most famous for his dramatic monologues which he wrote whilst on holiday on France, Scotland, Italy and Switzerland. He died at his son's home and was buried at Westminister Abbey, and received many distinctions during his lifetime. One of his well-known work includes The Last Duchess.