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Robert browning
- 1. ROBERT BROWNING Early Life: o May 7, 1812-December 12, 1889 o an English poet, playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse especially dramatic monologues. o a Victorian poet. o only son of Sarah Anna and Robert Browning. o Robert’s father is a literary collector where he was raised in a household significant literary resources.
- 2. o His mother, to whom he was very close, was a devout talented musician. o By twelve, he had written a book of poetry which he later destroyed when no publisher could be found. o He was educated at home by a tutor via the resources if his father’s extensive library around 6,000 books. o By fourteen, he became a great admirer of Romantic poets especially Shelley.
- 3. o He refused a formal career and dedicated himself to poetry. o He stayed at home until the age of 34 and dependent to is family until marriage. o His father sponsored the publication of his son’s poems. o In 1834, he accompanied Chevailer George de Benkhausen, the Russian consul-general. On brief visit to St. Petersburg and began Paracelsus published in 1835.
- 4. o The publication had some commercial and critical success being noticed by Wordsworth, Dickens, Landor and Tennyson. o It was a monodrama without action, dealing with the problems confronting an intellectual trying to find his role in society. o It gained him access to the London literary world. o As a result, he met Macready who invited him to write a play.
- 5. o Strafford was performed five times. He then wrote two other plays, one of which was not performed while the other failed, he fallen out with Macready. o In 1838, he visited Italy looking for background for Sordello, a long poem in blank verse presented as the imaginary biography of Mantuan bard spoken of by Dante in the Divine Comedy, set against a background of hate and conflict during Guelph-Ghibelline wars and was published in 1840.
- 6. Marriage Life: o In 1845, he met the poet Elizabeth Barrett. They began regularly corresponding and gradually a romance developed between them leading to their marriage. o Elizabeth’s poems included love sonnets that increased her popularity cementing her as an eminent Victorian poet. o She was a contender to become Poet Laureate after William Wordsworth death, the position eventually gong to Tennyson.
- 7. o From the time of their marriage until Elizabeth’s death, he lived in Italy residing Florence at Casa Guidi which is now a museum to their memory. o Elizabeth and Robert’s only child was Robert Wiedemann Barret Browning. o He described Italy as his university.
- 8. o Men and Women o In 1853, he worked with this two volume poem for he is now well known and it made a little impact. o The Ring and The Book o In 1868, he published this long blank verse based on convoluted murder-case. o It is composed of 12 books and ten lengthy dramatic monologues. o Concluded by Browning himself. o Poet’s most ambitious project and arguably his greatest work. o It was successful both commercially and critically. o Robert Browning Society was formed in 1881 and his work was recognized as belonging within the British Literary Canon. o An Epic-length poem that justify the ways of GOD to humanity.
- 9. o Porphyria’s Lover o My Last Duchess o Rabbi Ben Ezra o How they brought the good news to Aix o Evelyn Hope o The Pied Piper of Hamelin o A Grammarian’s Funeral o A Death in the Dessert o A Cavalier Song o A Woman’s Last Word
- 10. I. All June I bound the rose in sheaves. Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves And strew them where Pauline may pass. She will not turn aside? Alas! Let them lie. Suppose they die? The chance was they might take her eye. II. How many a month I strove to suit These stubborn fingers to the lute! To-day I venture all I know. She will not hear my music? So! Break the string; fold music's wing: Suppose Pauline had bade me sing! III. My whole life long I learned to love. This hour my utmost art I prove And speak my passion---heaven or hell? She will not give me heaven? 'Tis well! Lose who may---I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they! Robert Browning
- 11. o In his remaining years, after a series of long poems published in the early 1870’s, the volume Pacchiarotto and How we worked in Distemper included an attack against Browning’s critics especially Alfred Austin who became Poet Laureate. o Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day was produced that speak of his own voice. Asolando, published on the day of his death, a concise and brief lyric poem. December 12, 1889, the dead of Browning and was buried in poet’s corner in Westminster Abbey adjacent to that of Alfred Tennyson.