Robert Browning

_Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day_, published in 1887, Browning's last volume but one, betrays not the slightest decline in his mental vigour. It suffer...

It was during the month of the _coup d'état_ that Browning went back in thought to the poet of his youthful love, and wrote that essay which was prefixed to the volume of forged...

Rossetti expresses his first enthusiasm about _Men and Women_ in a word when he calls the poems "my Elixir of Life." To Ruskin these, with other pieces which he now read for the...

_Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau_, which appeared in December 1871, four months after the publication of _Balaustions Adventure_, was written by Browning during a visit to friends i...

The volume which consists of _La Saisiaz_ and _The Two Poets of Croisic_ (1878) brings the work of this decade to a close.[119] _La Saisiaz_, the record of thoughts that were aw...

During the last decade of his life Browning's influence as a literary power was assured. The publication indeed of _The Ring and the Book_ in 1868 did much to establish his repu...

The publication of _Dramatis Personae_ marks an advance in Browning's growing popularity; a second edition, in which some improvements were effected, was called for in 1864, the...

When _Men and Women_ was published in the autumn of 1855 the Brownings were again in Paris. An impulsive friend had taken an apartment for them in the Rue de Grenelle, facing ea...

The grief of the desolate man was an uncontrollable passion; his heart was strong and all its strength entered into its sorrow. Miss Blagden, "perfect in all kindness," took mot...

During these years, 1869-1878, Browning's outward life maintained its accustomed ways. In the summer of 1869 he wandered with his son and his sister, in company with his friends...

In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed t...

The publication of _Paracelsus_ did not gain for Browning a large audience, but it brought him friends and acquaintances who gave his life a delightful expansion in its social r...

There is little of incident in Browning's life to be recorded for the period between the publication of _Pauline_ and the publication of _Paracelsus_. During the winter of 1833-...

_Christmas Eve and Easter Day_ was published by Chapman & Hall in the year 1850. It was reported to the author that within the first fortnight two hundred copies had been sold,...

The ancestry of Robert Browning has been traced[1] to an earlier Robert who lived in the service of Sir John Bankes of Corfe Castle, and died in 1746. His eldest son, Thomas, "w...

The letters from which this story has been drawn have from first to last one burden; in them deep answers to deep; they happily are of a nature to escape far from the pedantries...

The women of the dramas, with one or two exceptions, are composed of fewer elements than the men. A variety of types is presented, but each personality is somewhat constrained a...