Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright born in 1812 in London. He showed an early interest in poetry from age 12. Though his education was not formal, he was heavily influenced by his parents and father's large library. He published his first poem in 1833 but received criticism. He later found success after marrying Elizabeth Barrett and moving with her to Italy in 1845. There he gained inspiration and they collaborated on works. Browning established himself as a poet and playwright, known for his dramatic monologues and exploration of themes like love, art, mortality, and society. He died in 1889 in Venice and left behind a renowned body of work.

1. Robert browning
Life and Style of writing

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3. Content
Biography
Writing career
Style of writing

4. Early life of
Robert
Browning
 Robert Browning was born on 7th of May 1812 in
Camberwell, London,England.
 He was the brilliant son of Sarah Anna and Robert
Browning.
 His father was a well paid clerk in the Bank of
England. Robert was highly influenced by his
mother’s love for music and his father’s
scholarly(involving) interests.
 His father also owned a huge library with 6000
volumes of different languages cast a
recurrent(repetitive)impact on his literary
development.

5. Education
 His schooling was short and desultory, his education
being attended to by private tutors and by his father,
who left the boy largely to follow his own inclination.
 So, he turned toward poetry at the age of twelve
which he destroyed for want of publishers.
 Then he fell under the influence of Shelly, and his
first known work ,Pauline(1833),must be considered
as a tribute to shelley and his poetry .
 Robert entered University College London (London
University) to study Greek at sixteen but left after a
year.
 Despite this secluded development, he won an
honorary Doctorate of Civil Law from Oxford
University in 1887.

6. Marriage
 Robert met Elizabeth Barrett in London, in
1845. They started corresponding and gradually
discovered their love for each other.
 Elizabeth Barrett gave wings to his poetic
imagination.
 Initially, they kept their marriage a secret
because Barrett’s father disliked Robert.
 Later they eloped to Italy where they spent
fifteen years until Elizabeth’s death in 1861.

7. After gaining a reputation among British
Literary canons , Robert breathed his
last on the 12th of December in 1889 in
Venice. He was buried in Westminster
Abbey at the Poet’s Corner. On the same
day, the final volume of his book,
“Asolando” hit the shelves. Sadly, he
was not there to witness its glory.

8. Writing career
 Robert Browning is a great Victorian poet and playwright who
started writing at an early age.
 He became a published poet in 1833 when his first
poem “Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession” was published. It
received modest reviews, but it introduced him as a poet in
literary circles.
 This piece was attacked by John Stuart Mill who condemned his
sophisticated approach of writing.
 Later, in 1935 he produced “Paracelsus” followed by another
piece “Sordello” in 1940. Besides poetry, he tried his skills in
playwriting and presented “Strafford” in 1837 and “Bells and
Pomegranate” in 1841.
 Unfortunately, these attempts did not bring the desired success.
 when in 1855 his wife inspired him to publish his collections.
Later, this brought commercial and critical success in his writing
career. In 1869, his “Dramatis Personae” and “Ring and the
Book” earned him a spot in the circle of Victorian poets.

9. Style of writing
 Robert had established his career first as a poet and then as a
playwright. His unique ideas added a lot to the literary world.
 His early works: “Pauline” and Paracelsus” brought him to the
center of criticism, and his later masterpieces earned him a
reputable place among literary circles.
 Robert successfully used dramatic monologue techniques
which enabled the readers to see an event using the characters
lenses. Moreover, he explored the beauty of the real-world
using artistic techniques in his poems, “Fra Lippo Lippi ” and
“Pictor Ignoyus”.
 The recurring (repetitive) theme in most of his poems are loss,
love, the relationship between arts and mortality, politics,
religion, and society.

10. Sources
 Unauthorized , U. U. (n.d.). Robert Browning. Poetry
Foundation. Retrieved December 10, 2021, from
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-
browning.
 Unauthorized , U. U. English Literature by
William.J.Long (2013th ed.). AITBS .

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