Robert Browning (8 May, 1812 – 12 December, 1889) was an English poet with a flair for the dramatic.
- Browning was educated at home and lived many years under his parents’ roof while fostering a literary career.
- English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and playwright William Shakespeare were a major influence on Mr. Browning.
- When a collection of letters by Shelley was discovered, Browning wrote the preface. Later, it was discovered that the letters were fake and the collection never published; however, Browning’s preface remains an important piece due to its famous distinction between “objective” and “subjective” writers.
- Browning wrote poetry as dramatic monologues because his plays were poorly received and the drama was not suited for the theatre.
- Famous poetess Elizabeth Barrett Browning (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”) was his wife. During her life, she was the more famous of the two.
- Even though Mr. Browning was a citizen of the British Empire, he spent almost a quarter of his life in Italy, which was a large influence of his work.
- Browning ’s poem The Ring and the Book is made out of 20,000 lines.
- Robert Browning died on the day the final volume of Asolando was published.
- Stephen King’s Dark Tower series was inspired by one of Browning’s poem “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came“.
- The movie Get Carter opens with a quote for The Ring and the Book “That’s all we expect of man, this side the grave: his good is – knowing he is bad”.
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