An Introduction to the Study of Robert Brownings Poetry

An introduction to the study of Robert Browning's poetry,

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Rupkatha marked it as to-read Apr 11, Robert Druce marked it as to-read Oct 22, Ann Tesar marked it as to-read Dec 27, There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Robert Browning was a British poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

Browning began writing poetry at age These poems were eventually collected, but were later destroyed by Browning himself. In , Browning's "Pauline" was published and received a cool reception. Harold Bloom believes that John Stuart Robert Browning was a British poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

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Harold Bloom believes that John Stuart Mill's review of the poem pointed Browning in the direction of the dramatic monologue. In , Browning wrote a letter to the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning , professing that he loved her poetry and her. In , the couple eloped to Europe, eventually settling in Florence in They had a son Pen. While in London, he published Dramatis Personae and The Ring and the Book , both of which gained him critical priase and respect. His last book Asolando was published in when the poet was In , Browning traveled to Italy to visit friends.

An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry

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Would you like us to take another look at this review? No, cancel Yes, report it Thanks! You've successfully reported this review. Unusually for a poet, societies for the study of his work were founded while he was still alive. Such Browning Societies remained common in Britain and the United States until the early 20th century. Robert Browning was born in Walworth in the parish of Camberwell , Surrey, which now forms part of the Borough of Southwark in south London.

Browning's father had been sent to the West Indies to work on a sugar plantation, but, due to a slave revolt there, had returned to England. Browning's mother was the daughter of a German shipowner who had settled in Dundee in Scotland, and his Scottish wife. Browning had one sister, Sarianna. Browning's paternal grandmother, Margaret Tittle, who had inherited a plantation in St Kitts, was rumored within the family to have a mixed race ancestry, including some Jamaican blood, but author Julia Markus suggests she was Kittitian rather than Jamaican.

As such, Robert was raised in a household of significant literary resources.

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His mother, to whom he was very close, was a devout nonconformist and a talented musician. His father encouraged his children's interest in literature and the arts. By 12, Browning had written a book of poetry which he later destroyed when no publisher could be found.

After being at one or two private schools, and showing an insuperable dislike of school life, he was educated at home by a tutor via the resources of his father's extensive library. He became a great admirer of the Romantic poets , especially Shelley. Following the precedent of Shelley, Browning became an atheist and vegetarian.

At 16, he studied Greek at University College London but left after his first year. He refused a formal career and ignored his parents' remonstrations, dedicating himself to poetry. He stayed at home until the age of 34, financially dependent on his family until his marriage. His father sponsored the publication of his son's poems. Some one shall somehow run a muck With this old world, for want of strife Sound asleep: Our men scarce seem in earnest now: Bells and Pomegranates No.

In March , "Pauline, a Fragment of a Confession" was published anonymously by Saunders and Otley at the expense of the author, Robert Browning, who received the money from his aunt, Mrs Silverthorne. Originally Browning considered Pauline as the first of a series written by different aspects of himself, but he soon abandoned this idea.

The press noticed the publication. Fox writing in The Monthly Repository of April discerned merit in the work. Allan Cunningham praised it in the Athenaeum. However, it sold no copies.

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In , he accompanied the Chevalier George de Benkhausen, the Russian consul-general, on a brief visit to St Petersburg and began Paracelsus , which was published in The publication had some commercial and critical success, being noticed by Wordsworth , Dickens , Landor , J. Mill and the already famous Tennyson. It is a monodrama without action, dealing with the problems confronting an intellectual trying to find his role in society. It gained him access to the London literary world. As a result of his new contacts he met Macready , who invited him to write a play.

Browning then wrote two other plays, one of which was not performed, while the other failed, Browning having fallen out with Macready. In , he 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 background of hate and conflict during the Guelph-Ghibelline wars. This was published in and met with widespread derision, gaining him the reputation of wanton carelessness and obscurity. Tennyson commented that he only understood the first and last lines and Carlyle wrote that his wife had read the poem through and could not tell whether Sordello was a man, a city or a book.

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Browning's reputation began to make a partial recovery with the publication, —, of Bells and Pomegranates , a series of eight pamphlets, originally intended just to include his plays. Fortunately for Browning's career, his publisher, Moxon, persuaded him to include some "dramatic lyrics", some of which had already appeared in periodicals. In , Browning met the poet Elizabeth Barrett , six years his elder, who lived as a semi-invalid in her father's house in Wimpole Street , London.

They began regularly corresponding and gradually a romance developed between them, leading to their marriage and journey to Italy for Elizabeth's health on 12 September Barrett disinherited Elizabeth, as he did for each of his children who married: Browning of popular imagination was a sweet, innocent young woman who suffered endless cruelties at the hands of a tyrannical papa but who nonetheless had the good fortune to fall in love with a dashing and handsome poet named Robert Browning.

The book increased her popularity and high critical regard, cementing her position as an eminent Victorian poet. Upon William Wordsworth 's death in , she was a serious contender to become Poet Laureate , the position eventually going to Tennyson. From the time of their marriage and until Elizabeth's death, the Brownings lived in Italy, residing first in Pisa , and then, within a year, finding an apartment in Florence at Casa Guidi now a museum to their memory. He would, in later life, describe Italy as his university. As Elizabeth had inherited money of her own, the couple were reasonably comfortable in Italy, and their relationship together was happy.

However, the literary assault on Browning's work did not let up and he was critically dismissed further, by patrician writers such as Charles Kingsley , for the desertion of England for foreign lands. Browning identified as a Liberal , supported the emancipation of women, and opposed slavery, expressing sympathy for the North in the American Civil War.

He was also a stalwart opponent of anti-Semitism, leading to speculation that Browning himself was Jewish. Browning was raised in an evangelical non-conformist household. However, after his reading of Shelley he is said to have briefly become an atheist. However, many have dismissed the usefulness of these works at discovering Browning's own religious views due to the consistent use of dramatic monologue which regularly expresses hypothetical views which cannot be ascribed to the author himself. All, except this last accident, was truth— This little kind of slip!

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