Robert Browning was born in Chamberwell, which is in the South of London. His father was Robert Browning and his mother was Sarah Anna Wiedemann. He published many things throughout his life time, but not all of them were as well like as those of his future wife Elizabeth. His first publication was Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession. Some of his others were Bells and Pomegranates, Pippa Passes, and Sordello. After the death of his wife Elizabeth, he published The Ring and The Book. This was one of his most famous works. (4)

Through Elizabeth Barrett Browning's writing, he became infatuated with her. The two eloped against her father's will. Elizabeth's writing was more well known when she was living; however, Robert's work only was seen as good after his death. (1)


This is an image of Robert Browning. [2]

Browning loved to read as he was growing up, and read anything that grabbed his interest. He recieved his education at home and was very inteligent even from early years. Browning went through books so easily that he managed to finish all 50 volumes of the Biographie Universelle. Before he was 15, he had accomplished learning 4 different languages; Latin, French, Italian, and Greek. In 1828 he was accepted into the University of London the first year it opened, but decided to leave so he would be able to read at his own pace on his own time. (3)

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The following is a list of Robert Browning's Works:
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Here is a love letter from Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett from a book called Love Letters: An Anthology of Passion by Michelle Lovric:

I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett, -- and this is no off-hand complimentary letter that I shall write, --whatever else, no prompt matter-of-course recognition of your genius and there a graceful and natural end of the thing: since the day last week when I first read your poems, I quite laugh to remember how I have been turning again in my mind what I should be able to tell you of their effect upon me -- for in the first flush of delight I though I would this once get out of my habit of purely passive enjoyment, when I do really enjoy, and thoroughly justify my admiration -- perhaps even, as a loyal fellow-craftsman should, try and find fault and do you some little good to be proud of herafter! -- but nothing comes of it all -- so into me has it gone, and part of me has it become, this great living poetry of yours, not a flower of which but took root and grew ... oh, how different that is from lying to be dried and pressed flat and prized highly and put in a book with a proper account at bottom, and shut up and put away ... and the book called a 'Flora', besides! After all, I need not give up the thought of doing that, too, in time; because even now, talking with whoever is worthy, I can give reason for my faith in one and another excellence, the fresh strange music, the affluent language, the exquisite pathos and true new brave thought -- but in this addressing myself to you, your own self, and for the first time, my feeling rises altogher. I do, as I say, love these Books with all my heart -- and I love you too: do you know I was once seeing you? Mr. Kenyon said to me one morning "would you like to see Miss Barrett?" -- then he went to announce me, -- then he returned ... you were too unwell -- and now it is years ago -- and I feel as at some untorward passage in my travels -- as if I had been close, so close, to some world's-wonder in chapel
on crypt, ... only a screen to push and I might have entered -- but there was some slight ... so it now seems ... slight and just-sufficient bar to admission, and the half-opened door shut, and I went home my thousands of miles, and the sight was never to be!
Well, these Poems were to be -- and this true thankful joy and pride with which I feel myself.

A poem by Robert Browning MEETING AT NIGHT
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Here is a portrait of Robert Browning (9)


Sources

(1) http://caxton.stockton.edu/browning/stories/storyReader$8
[2]http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/182
(3) http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/rb/rbbio.html
(4)http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/browning.htm
(5) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13103
(6) http://www.thecore.nus.edu/landow/victorian/authors/rb/works.html
(7)http://www.cswnet.com/~erin/loveletter.htm
(8)http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/meeting_at_night.html
(9)http://www.unlv.edu/faculty/droisen/images/browning2.jpg