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Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets.He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax.
Dramatic Lyrics is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1842 [1] as the third volume in a series of self-published books entitled Bells and Pomegranates.
The poet, Robert Browning "Andrea del Sarto" (also called "The Faultless Painter") is a poem by Robert Browning (1812–1889) published in his 1855 poetry collection, Men and Women. It is a dramatic monologue, a form of poetry for which he is famous, about the Italian painter Andrea del Sarto.
"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" is a poem by Robert Browning published in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, 1845. [1] The poem, one of the volume's "dramatic romances", is a first-person narrative told, in breathless galloping meter, by one of three riders; the midnight errand is urgent—"the news which alone could save Aix from her fate"—although the nature of that good news ...
The Ring and the Book is a long dramatic narrative poem, and, more specifically, a verse novel, of 21,000 lines, written by Robert Browning.It was published in four volumes from 1868 to 1869 by Smith, Elder & Co. [2]
"Porphyria's Lover" is a poem by Robert Browning which was first published as "Porphyria" in the January 1836 issue of Monthly Repository. [1] Browning later republished it in Dramatic Lyrics (1842) paired with "Johannes Agricola in Meditation" under the title "Madhouse Cells". The poem did not receive its definitive title until 1863.
Pages in category "Poetry by Robert Browning" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Browning's poem inspired or gave its title to many subsequent works, including a painting by Edward Burne-Jones, Warwick Deeping's second novel, a 1953 novel by Evelyn Waugh, a 1975 TV-movie with Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier, an episode of the American TV series Mad Men, and an album and song by the band 10,000 Maniacs.