“Ambition is not what man does… but what man would do." (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/robert_browning.html) Robert Browning came to be one of the most important poets of the Victorian period. His dramatic monologues have established him as a major figure in the history of English poetry. Most of his creativity and literary ingeniousness came from following the practices of his parents. His love for poetry came from knowledge his father’s extensive devotion of learning. Robert Browning was a playwright, poet, even though he had many failures that into triumph.
Robert Browning was born on May 7, 1812 in Camberwell, England. He was the only child. His father was a bank clerk and musical, religious mother. He was educated mostly at home. His learning came from his father's library. His father had a collection of books of more than 6,000 volumes. Browning briefly attended University of London in 1828. (“Robert Browning”)
In his earlier years, his cousin gave a collection of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry. He later dedicated himself to poetry. In 1833, Browning published his first major work, Pauline, and in 1840 he published Sordello, which was widely regarded as a failure. His early poetry, based on Shelley's confessional style, was criticized, and he abandoned poetry for drama. When he tried his hand at drama, but his plays we're unsuccessful. He had begun with a series of long works, the last of which, based on the life of a thirteenth-century troubadour, was a catastrophic failure. He earned him reputation for impenetrable difficulty. (“Robert Browning”) Browning went on publish Dramatis Personae (1863) and The Ring and the Book (1868). (www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/robert-browning)
After Browning finish reading Elizabeth ...
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... "mine" like he showing possession of her. He takes her hair and twists it around her throat three times and strangles her. He assumes things about her emotions like she still alive. Now she has been reduced as an object. He says Porphyria could never guess her wish of being with would be fulfilled. (Milford 282-83)
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"Robert Browning." Critical Survey of Poetry: English Language Series. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Vol. 1. Englewood Cliffs: Salem, 1982. 338, 341.
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