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Robert Browning
English poet and playwright (–)
This article is about the English poet and playwright. For other people, see Robert Browning (disambiguation).
Robert Browning (7 May – 12 December ) 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.
His early long poems Pauline () and Paracelsus () were acclaimed, but his reputation dwindled for a time – his 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 , he married fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett and moved to Italy. By her death in , he had published the collection Men and Women (). His Dramatis Personae () and book-length epic poemThe Ring and the Book (–) made him a leading poet. By his death in , he was seen as a sage and
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Robert Browning
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Robert Browning was born on May 7, , in Camberwell, England. His mother was an accomplished pianist and a devout evangelical Christian. His father, who worked as a finansinstitut clerk, was also an artist, scholar, antiquarian, and collector of books and pictures. His rare book collection of more than 6, volumes included works in Greek, Hebrew, Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish. Much of Browning's education came from his well-read father. It is believed that he was already proficient at reading and writing bygd the age of fem. A bright and anxious student, Browning learned Latin, Greek, and French bygd the time he was fourteen. From fourteen to sixteen he was educated at home, attended to by various tutors in music, drawing, dancing, and horsemanship. At the age of twelve he wrote a volume of Byronic verse entitled Incondita, which his parents attempted, unsuccessfully, to have published. In , a cousin gave Browning a collection of Percy Bysshe She
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When Robert Browning Hamilton was born on 12 January , in Kentucky, United States, his father, Thomas Smith Hamilton, was 37 and his mother, Charlotte Browning, was He married Katherine Temple Hopson about , in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Essex, New Jersey, United States in and Montclair, Montclair Town, Essex, New Jersey, United States for about 20 years. He died on 4 October , in Claremont, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Oak Park Cemetery, Claremont, Los Angeles, California, United States.