Robert Browning

Warmer climes Give brighter plumage, stronger wing; the breeze Of Alpine highths thou playest with, borne on Beyond Sorrento and Amalfi, where The Siren waits thee, singing song...

Then, who helps more, pray, to repair our loss-- Another Boehme with a tougher book And subtler meanings of what roses say,-- Or some stout Mage, like him of Halberstadt, John,...

The memorable moment when Browning, standing on the ruined palace-step at Venice, had taken Humanity for his mate, opened an epoch in his poetic life to which the later books of...

The publication of _The Ring and the Book_ marks in several ways a turning-point in Browning's career. Conceived and planned before the tragic close of his married life, and wri...

His voice sounds loudest and also clearest for the things that as a race we like best; ... the fascination of faith, the acceptance of life, the respect for its mysteries, the e...

The catastrophe of June 29, 1861, closed with appalling suddenness the fifteen years' married life of Browning. "I shall grow still, I hope," he wrote to Miss Haworth, a month l...

After four years of silence, the _Dramatis Personæ_ was followed by _The Ring and the Book_. This monumental poem, in some respects his culminating achievement, has its roots in...

in verse, and in rhyme; and Browning's bent and faculty for both was very early pronounced. "I never can recollect not writing rhymes; ... but I knew they were nonsense even the...

Since the catastrophe of 1861 Browning had not entered Italy. In the autumn of 1878 he once more bent his steps thither. Florence, indeed, he refused to revisit; it was burnt in...

Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach, in meiner Brust, Die eine will sich von der andern trennen; Die eine hält in derber Liebeslust Sich an die Welt mit klammernden Organen; Die andre hebt...

Judged by his cosmopolitan sympathies and his encyclopædic knowledge, by the scenery and the persons among whom his poetry habitually moves, Browning was one of the least insula...

IX. THE POET 237 I. Divergent psychical tendencies of Browning--"romantic" temperament, "realist" senses--blending of their _données_ in his imaginative activity--shifting compl...

IV. WEDDED LIFE IN ITALY. _MEN AND WOMEN_ 74 I. January 1845 to September 1846 74 II. Society and Friendships 84 III. Politics 88 IV. Poems of Nature 91 V. Poems of Art 96 VI. P...