Do you think you can write 6,000 volumes of books? If you think it’s a lot Robert Browning accomplished it during his career. His volumes included works in Greek, Hebrew, Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish. Although, the early poet of Robert Browning creative life has spent in comparative obscurity, he has came to be the most important poet. A consist reader, Browning would later draw on his wide and sometimes arcane learning in his poetry. He attended the University of London but left in discontent to pursue his own program of reading. Did you know Robert Browning started his career writing playwrights?
May 7, 1812 in Cambewall England, Robert Browning was born. Browning was the only child growing up. The early life of Robert Browning was very educational during his younger days. From 14-16 he was educated at home tutored in music, drawing, dancing, and horsemanship. His dramatic monologues “The Ring” and “The Book” (1868-1869), a novel in verse have established him as a major figure in the history of English poetry. Much of Browning education was conducted at home by his father, which made him even smarter. Robert Browning consists studying made him bring information to his brilliant work. A quarrel with his father and the financial necessity it entitled led the elder Browning to accomplish his dreams. To support himself and his family through his book clerkship they made it through the hard times.
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Browning also, wrote several plays intended for stage, along with closet dramas. However, he was not very successful to be a playwrighter. (World, Maisie. Robert Browning and His World: The Private Face. NewYork,1967. Page. 1-4)
Porphyria’s Lover, “which first appeared in 1836, is one of the earliest and most shocking...
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1. Browning, Robert. My Last Duchess. Italy, 16th century. Page 854
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2. Browning, Robert. Porphyria’s Love. Italy, 16th century. Page 859
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4. Browning, Robert. The Pied Piper Hamelin. England, 1842 http://www.poets.org 4. Browning, Robert. Wanting is – What? England, 1883. http://www.poets.org 5. World, Maisie. Robert Browning and His World: The Private Face. NewYork,1967. Page. 1-4
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Robert Louis Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850 in Scotland. Being the only son of a famous civil engineer, Stevenson was expected to continue the family tradition, but this was against his wishes for his life. At an early age, he exhibited a yearning to write, and although he could not read until he was seven or eight, he composed stories and dedicated them to his parents and nurse. Stevenson was not brought up by the most caring parents, and received most of his adolescent guidance from his nurse. Throughout his child, the nurse cared for him and instilled in him the Christian beliefs that undoubtedly shaped his novels. The nurse would read to him from the bible during his periods of bed rest, as he was a sickly child, and these daily readings instilled in him a love for storytelling. Although he was a sickly child, he managed to receive a decent education through some schooling, private tutoring and at the efforts of his nurse and was able to enroll in Edinburgh University when he was 17.
Have you ever fallen in love? Have you ever developed strong feelings for another? If problems arose between the two of you, were you able to overcome them? Well certain men in Robert Browning’s works couldn’t seem to. . . “overcome” these differences with their women. Browning grew up learning from his father’s huge library. His wife was much more successful at writing than him. Eight years after her death, his career turned around for the last 20 years of his life. During this time, he wrote many short dramatic monologues such as My Last Duchess and Prophyria’s Lover. These two very intriguing and disturbing Monologues, My Last Duchess and Prophyria’s Lover, by Robert Browning, involve two very messed up men whose actions are both alike in their idea of immortalizing their woman, but different in why they chose to commit the act between the two stories, and a conclusion may be drawn from this observation.
Robert was born into an affluent English aristocratic family and received a conventional gentleman's education (Clulee). In a brief autobiography of his early life, Robert paints himself as being different from the other children in his family. He says he was rather self-righteous, preferring to study rather than play or do other normal boyish activities. Robert wrote that he was very much his father’s favorite (Mollan). Robert’s parents believed that the best upbringing for young children, up to the time they began their education, could be provided away from their parents. Robert was sent away to be brought up in the country while his father continued to aim for higher political successes (Robert). After his mother died Robert returned from his stay with his country nurse and rejoined his family. He went to school, along with one of his older brothers, at Eton College in England in 1635 when he was 8 years old (Sargent, 23).
“One that values effective, gripping persuasion and relies on overt emotional, even sensational, expression and religious engagement--is applied to "The Cry of the Children" and other sentimental verses in poems” (Byrd). Lots of things that Browning valued were in her poems because those are the things that she cared about the most and her writing was mostly about things that were closest to her heart. Obviously it was a little easier for her to write about things she loved, because it is a little easier for everyone to write about things they know and
Edgar Allan Poe, born January 19, 1809, was an American poet, widely known for his literature and his belonging toward Romanticism. Born in Boston, he was soon orphaned after the abandonment of his father and death of mother between 1810-1811. In 1827, Poe released his first book, “Tamerlane and Other Poems”. This was not the only one, however, for he released several other books before the death of his older brother in 1831. After his brother’s death, Poe made the decision to become a writer.
Christopher Browning is a well- known historian and also a writer. His best known books are books regarding the Holocaust during World War II. During the Holocaust the men in charge of the killings were by the Nazi regime, whose leader was Adolf Hitler. Studies show roughly about six million Jews were murdered around this time. These murders were painful and unmoral. In the beginning of the book Browning starts by quoting facts about the holocaust. He quotes, “In mid- March 1942 some 75 to 80 percent of all victims of the Holocaust were still alive, while 20 to 25 percent had perished. The following year the numbers were completely reversed. The majority of the murders of Jews were taken place in Poland. Christopher Browning questions how had the Germans organized and carried out the mass murder of Jews. He also questions how Germany found the resources allowing the Nazi regime to mobilize, considering that Germany in the Treaty of Versailles had to decrease their military. For him to answer this question it led him to investigate, and while investigating he came across a group of m...
“Fierce pain, paralysis and sickness took over my body, for week’s doctors seemed to think I was either making it up, mad or anorexic. Eventually they discovered it was porphyria, and it was inherited from my father… We learned that antibiotics prescribed for a minor infection, had probably triggered it in my case, but after that, I generally suffered attacks in my pre-menstrual period. These attacks varied in severity, but the pain and vomiting were omnipresent… My weight gradually dropped, as I was unable to regain it in the short periods of time between attacks, which led me to an attack which left me almost completely paralyzed.” (Elizabeth, 2011)
He used the dramatic monologue as a way to avoid exposing himself explicitly to his reader. He avoided confessional writings. Furthermore, he tried to write plays as an attempt to avoid soul searching narratives or lyrics. Robert Browning used this style of writing because through imaginary speakers it enabled him to avoid explicit autobiography. One evident poem that uses form of the dramatic monologue is the story of My Last Duchess in which the duke speaks to his dead wife. We read about a one sided conversation, all the while trying to piece together the situation from both past and present and figure exactly what it was that happened to the
Nathaniel Hawthorne was not only one of the greatest writers of his time, but that could also be considered today. His novels tell us about how things were around his time that you would not read in a history book. His books also partly centred around his life. Most might say that his book are a little twisted, but then that might be the way things were in his time. I know when I read his novel The Scarlet Letter, I thought it was weird, not only the way it was worded but the storyline about witchcraft. But like I said, you can learn many things from novels that you can’t in history books.
The Victorian Era was a time of overseas expansion and domestic reform. During this period of growth and change, there is an upsurge of literary movements and technological advancements that has shaped its culture and brought forth a new direction of prosperity. We are introduced to a number of authors, each of which provides different and unique perceptions through their writing. As we read further into the unit, we start to realize that personal relationships such as love, marriage, and friendship become very important to the Victorians. However, the writers from this period suggest different ideals. Some of these writers express a darker approach, among these is Robert Browning. He is best known as one of the greatest of Victorian poets, and the techniques he learned as a playwright led him to master the dramatic monologue. Dramatic monologues are a way of expressing the views of a character and offering the audience greater insight into that character's feelings. “My Last Duchess” and Porphyria’s Lover” are among Browning’s best dramatic monologues.
Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter in 1850. He also wrote Twice-Told Tales. Hawthorne also wrote short stories like “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” and “The Minister’s Black Veil.” Nathaniel Hawthorne used a great deal of imagery and symbolism in his stories. Nathaniel Hawthorne was an early American author whose novels and short stories shaped American Literature.
... by Browning, but he also sets himself and his consciousness apart from the modern society who remained. Shown by how Prufrock isolated himself away from the fakery of his society.
She says “writing can be an expression of one 's innermost feelings. It can allow the reader to tap into the deepest recesses of one 's heart and soul. It is indeed the gifted author that can cause the reader to cry at her words and feel hope within the same poem. Many authors as well, as ordinary people use writing as a way to release emotions.” She makes plenty points in her review that I completely agree with. After reading the poem I think that Elizabeth Barret Browning is not only the author of her famous poem, but also the speaker as well. She is a woman simply expressing her love for her husband in a passionate way through poetry. In the 1st Line it reads “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” A woman drunk in love she is, and next she begins to count the numerous ways she can love her significant
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the braver literary pioneers. Choosing to utilize the vocabulary she favored rather than submit to the harsh criticisms of those who held the power to make or break her is an applaudable novelty about her. Many writers, having been successful in their literary exploits, are susceptible to accusations that their work was catered to critics. Surely, this cannot and should not be said of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Shaviro, Steven. "Browning upon Caliban upon Setebos." Browning Society Notes 12 (1983). Rpt. in Robert Browning: Modern Critical Views. Ed. Harold Bloom, N.Y.: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. 139-150.