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Robert Browning
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English poet and playwright (1812–1889)
Robert Browning was a major English poet and playwright of the Victorian era, best known for developing the dramatic monologue—a poetic form in which a single character speaks to an imaginary listener, revealing their personality and motivations. His innovative approach to poetry and theatrical works made him one of the most influential literary figures of the nineteenth century.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 7 May 1812
- Died
- 12 Dec 1889
- Works
- 1327
Top works
- Favorite poems
- Browning's shorter poems
- The poetical works of Robert Browning
- Dramatic idyls
- Selections from Robert Browning including some of his latest poems
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Writing · London, England, UK
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Australia
- Active from
- 1812
- Active to
- 1889
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- Listeners
- 611
- Total plays
- 1,349
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Robert Browning was born in Camberwell, England, on May 7, 1812, the first son of Robert and Sarah Wiedemann Browning. His father was a man of fine intellect and equally fine character, who worked as a well-paid clerk in the Bank of England and so managed to amass a library of around 6,000 books — many of them highly obscure and arcane. Thus Robert was raised in a household with good literary resources. His mother, to whom he was ardently attached <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Robert+Browning">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 94,860x
- Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 55,855x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 45,419x
- Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 38,889x
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 38,226x
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Quotes
- “Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.”
- “So, Willy, let you and me be wipers Of scores out with all men — especially pipers! And, whether they pipe us from rats or from mice, If we've promised them aught, let us keep our promise!”
- “Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure, this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up.”
- “The lie was deadAnd damned, and truth stood up instead.”
- “Over my head his arm he flungAgainst the world.”
- “There's a woman like a dewdrop, she's so purer than the purest.”
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Interactive knowledge graph mapping heteronymic practice from pharaonic titulary (2600 BCE) through Fernando Pessoa to the contemporary avatar, pronoun, and chosen name. Over 100 nodes across 10 eras, 20 typologies, and 13 edge types. A teaching tool, scholarly resource, and contribution to the Crimson Hexagonal Archive. By Lee Sharks.
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- Robert Browning (1865 photogravure by Julia Margaret Cameron).jpg
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- Robert Browning
- date of death
- 1889-12-12
- date of birth
- 1812-05-07
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- Robert Browning Signature.svg
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Works in European collections
6 objects attributed to Robert Browning, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Article
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, characterisation, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax.
His early long poems Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835) were acclaimed, but his reputation dwindled for a time – his 1840 poem Sordello was seen as wilfully obscure – and took over a decade to recover, by which time he had moved from Shelleyan forms to a more personal style. In 1846, he married fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett and moved to Italy. By her death in 1861, he had published the collection Men and Women (1855). His Dramatis Personae (1864) and book-length epic poem The Ring and the Book (1868–1869) made him a leading poet. By his death in 1889, he was seen as a sage and philosopher-poet who had fed into Victorian social and political discourse. Societies for studying his work survived in Britain and the US into the 20th century.