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	Robert Browning
		Robert Browning was born in Camberwell, south London, as the son of Robert Browning, a wealthy clerk in the Bank of England, and Sarah Anna Wiedemann, of German-Scottish origin.
		Browning Society was founded in 1881 as an indication of the poets status as a sage and celebrity.
		The Courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett
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	Robert Browning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Browning was born in Camberwell, Surrey, the first son of Robert and Sarah Wiedemann Browning.
		Published under Browning's own name, in an edition financed by his father, the poem was a small commercial and critical success and gained the notice of Carlyle, Wordsworth, and other men of letters, giving him a reputation as a poet of distinguished promise.
		In early 1845, Browning began corresponding with Elizabeth Barrett, a semi-invalid, and the two conducted a secret courtship away from the eyes of her domineering father before marrying in secret in 1846 - a union of ideal happiness - and eloping to Italy.
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	Literary Encyclopedia: Robert Browning (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Browning was born in Camberwell, south London, in 1812; the son of a banker father and a devoutly religious mother; he had one younger sister, Sarianna.
		Browning had been experimenting with the form of the dramatic monologue since 1834, and in hindsight it seems obvious that this is where his career would take him.
		Browning was visiting Italy; he died later in the same day in Venice, his body being returned to England for burial in Westminster Abbey.
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	ROBERT BROWNING
		Browning and Tennyson spanned the nineteenth century¡ªa longevity in startling contrast to the brief careers of Keats and Shelley.
		Browning's husband." Elizabeth Barrett, who seems to us now a minor figure, was at that time a famous poetess while her husband was a relatively unknown experimenter whose poems were greeted with misunderstanding or indifference.
		The dramatic monologue, as Browning uses it, enables the reader, speaker, and poet to be located at an appropriate distance from each other, aligned in such a way that the reader must work through the words of the speaker toward the meaning of the poet himself.
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	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Robert Browning
		In 1825, a cousin gave Browning a collection of Shelley's poetry; Browning was so taken with the book that he asked for the rest of Shelley's works for his thirteenth birthday, and declared himself a vegetarian and an atheist in emulation of the poet.
		The Browning Society was founded while he still lived, in 1881, and he was awarded honorary degrees by Oxford University in 1882 and the University of Edinburgh in 1884.
		Robert Browning died on the same day that his final volume of verse, Asolando, was published, in 1889.
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	Robert Browning
		Robert Browne - Browne, Robert, c.1550–1633, English clergyman and leader of a group of early separatists...
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		Allusion in Robert Browning's "A Death in the Desert".
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	Robert Browning - Poetry Archive
		Robert Browning (1812-1889) was born in South London.
		Browning died in 1889 and is buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
		The poem Browning had such trouble remembering was one of his most popular at the time, a much more traditional exercise in verse form and narrative than some of his other pieces, undertaken according to Browning to see if he could evoke the rhythm of galloping horses.
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	MSN Encarta - Robert Browning
		Robert Browning (1812-1889), English poet, especially noted for perfecting the dramatic monologue (literary composition in which the speaker reveals his or her character).
		Browning was born in Camberwell (now part of London).
		Although his wife's reputation as a poet was greater than his own during his lifetime, Robert Browning today is considered one of the major poets of the Victorian era.
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	Robert Browning Biography - Poems
		Robert Browning was born in Camberwell, Surrey on May 7th, 1812.
		By the age of fourteen, Robert was fluent in English, French, Greek, Italian and Latin.
		Robert's literary status was recognized by the honorary fellowship award in 1867 in Balliol College, Oxford.
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	BROWNING, ROBERT (1812-... - Online Information article about BROWNING, ROBERT (1812-...
		Mrs Browning's health required a secluded life; and Browning, it is said, never dined out during his marriage, though he enjoyed society and made many and very warm friendships.
		Browning's limitations are characteristic of the poetry of strong ethical preoccupations.
		11 The appreciation of Browning's genius became general in his later years, and zeal was perhaps a little heightened by the complacency of disciples able to penetrate a supposed mist of obscurity.
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	Robert Browning (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Robert Browning was the son of a bank clerk.
		Browning attended a boarding school and spent a short time at the University of London, but was educated primarily through private tutoring.
		He lived to see the founding of the Browning Society in 1881, and by the end of the century, his reputation had eclipsed that of his wife.
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	Browning, Robert. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 1837, urged by William Macready, the Shakespearean actor, Browning began writing for the stage.
		Other notable poems of this kind are Fra Lippo Lippi,”; Andrea del Sarto,” and “The Bishop Orders His Tomb.” In 1846, after a romantic courtship, Browning secretly married the poet Elizabeth Barrett and took her to Italy, where they lived for 15 happy years.
		Browning gained recognition slowly, but after the publication of this work he was acclaimed a great poet.
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	Robert Browning
		Robert Browning was born 7 May 1812, first child and only son of Robert Browning and Sarah Wiedemann Browning.
		It was about this time that Robert's correspondence with Elizabeth Barrett began, when he wrote to thank her for a flattering mention of his work in one of her poems.
		Robert had always assumed he would be buried beside Elizabeth, but as that cemetary had been closed to further burials, he instead received a grand funeral at Westminster Abbey.
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	Robert Browning Poetry
		Robert Browning, born on May 7, 1812, the son of a wealthy clerk.
		Browning's early writing influence was thought to be the poet Shelley.
		Browning's greatest work, "The Ring and the Book," written in 1869, was based upon a murder trial held in Rome in 1698.
	www.miamipoetryreview.com /2006/12/robert-browning-poetry261206.html (271 words)

	Robert Browning: Selected Poems - Robert Browning - kniha audio CD MP3 \| Audiobook store.cz
		Robert Browning was a deeply religious man who wrestled to obtain and keep his Christian faith.
		To Browning, the most dreaded fate would be to live a "ghastly smooth life, dead at heart."
		Given Browning's intensely romantic love affair with Elizabeth Barrett, it is characteristic that he should view love as the key to the meaning of life and life's animating force.
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	Robert Browning poetry
		Life in a Love a poem by Robert Browning
		Meeting at Night a poem by Robert Browning
		The Pied Piper Of Hamelin a poem by Robert Browning
	www.poetry-online.org /browning-robert-poetry.htm (130 words)

	Robert Browning Life Stories, Books, & Links
		On this day in 1845 Robert Browning wrote his first letter to Elizabeth Barrett, so inciting one of the most legendary of literary love stories.
		Until she received a fan letter from Browning, Barrett showed every sign of complying with her father's ban on marriage.
		Twenty months later -- 575 letters from Browning, and almost daily visits -- Barrett would shed her "graveclothes" and walk out of the bedroom she hadn't left for six years except when carried.
	todayinliterature.com /biography/robert.browning.asp (564 words)

	Robert Browning
		He was a rapid learner and by the age of 14 was fluent in French, Greek, Italian, and Latin as well as his native English.
		The effect on Browning's career was catastrophic, and he would not recover his good public standing - and the good sales that accompanied it - until the publication of The Ring and the Book nearly thirty years later.
		Their son, the painter and critic Robert Wiedemann Browning, known to the family as "Pen", was born in Florence in 1849, the year that Robert Browning published his well-known poem "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" which was probably based on the Grimm Brother's version of the tale.
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	Gale - Free Resources - Poet's Corner - Biographies - Robert Browning (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Browning was born in 1812 in Camberwell, a suburb of London, to middle-class parents.
		Browning was an intellectually precocious child who read at the age of five and composed his first poetry at six.
		Although Browning had to this point failed to win either popular or critical esteem, his work did gain the admiration of Elizabeth Barrett, who was a respected and popular poet in her own right.
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	Robert Browning Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Robert Browning is known to the general public as the writer of "The Pied Piper," the hero of the play, The Barretts of Wimpole Street—and little more.
		Who then was this Robert Browning who at his death at age 77 had risen to the heights of English literary society from his comparatively modest beginnings in the south London village of Camberwell?
		Browning wrote more poetry than almost any other English poet, all wonderfully intense and original and of an uncompromisingly high standard.
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	>Robert Browning - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Robert Browning was born on May 7, 1812, in Camberwell (a suburb of London), the first child of Robert and Sarah Anna Browning.
		Browning had angered his own father and forgone a fortune: the poet's grandfather had sent his son to oversee a West Indies sugar plantation, but the young man had found the institution of slavery so abhorrent that he gave up his prospects and returned home, to become a clerk in the Bank of England.
		On this very modest salary he was able to marry, raise a family, and to acquire a library of 6000 volumes.
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	Robert Browning
		He was born in Camberwell, Surrey, the eldest son of Robert and Sarah Browning.
		Their son, Robert, was born in Florence in 1849.
		Robert Browning's Poetry - Summary, character, themes, quiz, facts, and study...
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	AllRefer.com - Robert Browning (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		His remarkably broad and sound education was primarily the work of his artistic and scholarly parents : in particular his father, a London bank clerk of independent means.
		Although not especially successful, he wrote eight verse plays during the next nine years, two of which were produced : Strafford in 1837 and A Blot in the 'Scutcheon in 1843.
		Other notable poems of this kind are "Fra Lippo Lippi," "Andrea del Sarto," and "The Bishop Orders His Tomb." In 1846, after a romantic courtship, Browning secretly married the poet Elizabeth Barrett and took her to Italy, where they lived for 15 happy years.
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	Robert Browning Life Stories, Books, & Links
		On this day in 1845 Robert Browning wrote his first letter to Elizabeth Barrett, so inciting one of the most legendary of literary love stories.
		Twenty months later -- 575 letters from Browning, and almost daily visits -- Barrett would shed her "graveclothes" and walk out of the bedroom she hadn't left for six years except when carried.
		The Courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett
	www.todayinliterature.com /biography/robert.browning.asp (564 words)

	Robert Browning
		Robert Browning was born in Camberwell, London, the son of a well-educated bank clerk.
		Browning returned to England following her death in 1861.
		Browning was much fêted in his latter years and would almost certainly have become Poet Laureate but for Tennyson's 42 year tenure.
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	Amazon.com: Brownings: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets): Books: Robert Browning,Elizabeth Barrett Browning,Peter ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are without parallel in the nineteenth century: celebrated poets, they became equally famous for their marriage.
		This collection presents the Brownings’ work in the context of their lives: the early years and their initial friendship, their courtship and marriage, the fifteen happy years they spent living in Italy until Elizabeth’s death.
		Whether in short poems such as Elizabeth’s “Hector in the Garden” and Robert’s “Natural Magic,” or in extracts from longer works such as Aurora Leigh and Pauline, the great themes they shared are all represented: love, marriage, illicit passion, England and Italy, childhood, religion, poetry, and nature.
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