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Robert Browning & “My Last Duchess”

Robert Browning & “My Last Duchess” . By: Brandy Spoor . Life . Born: May 7, 1812, in Camberwell, England Father was a scholar and an artist People believe he could read and write before the age of five

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Robert Browning & “My Last Duchess”

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  1. Robert Browning &“My Last Duchess” By: Brandy Spoor

  2. Life • Born: May 7, 1812, in Camberwell, England • Father was a scholar and an artist • People believe he could read and write before the age of five • Between the ages of fourteen and sixteen browning studied music, drawing, dancing, and horsemanship at home with the help of tutors • Browning went to London university for a short period of time • After reading Elizabeth Barrett's poetry in 1845 he met her and married her • He died in 1889

  3. Browning’s Work • PaulineBrowning’s first major work was published in 1833 • In 1840 he published Sordello which was regarded as a failure • He wrote poetry, prose, and Drama

  4. Prose Browning to His American Friends (1965)Dearest Isa: Browning's Letters to Isa Blagden (1951)Learned Lady: Letters from Robert Browning to Mrs. Thomas FitzGerald 1876-1889 (1966)Letters of Robert Browning Collected by Thomas J. Wise (1933)New Letters of Robert Browning (1950)Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood: A Broken Friendship as Revealed in Their Letters (1937)The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, 1845-1846(1969)Thomas Jones, The Divine Order: Sermons (1884) Anthology The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1877) Published Works • Poetry Asolando: Fancies and Facts (1889)Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day (1850)Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning (1895)Dramatic Idyls (1879)Dramatic Idyls: Second Series (1880)Ferishtah's Fancies (1884)Jocoseria (1883)La Saisiaz, and The Two Poets of Croisicv (1878)Men and Women (1855)New Poems by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1914)Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper, with Other Poems(1876)Paracelsus (1835)Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day (1887)Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession (1833)Red Cotton Night-Cap Country; or, Turf and Towers (1873)Robert Browning: The Poems (1981)Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book (1971)Sordell (1840)The Brownings to the Tennysons (1971)The Complete Works of Robert Browning (1898)The Inn Album (1875)The Poetical Works of Robert Browning (1868)The Ring and the Book (1868)The Works of Robert Browning (1912)Two Poems (1854) Drama Aristophanes' Apology (1875)Balaustion's Adventure, Including a Transcript from Euripides (1871)Bells and Pomegranates, No. IV - The Return of the Druses: A Tragedy in Five Acts (1943)Bells and Pomegranates. No. I - Pippa Passes (1841)Bells and Pomegranates. No. II - King Victor and King Charles (1842)Bells and Pomegranates. No. III - Dramatic Lyrics (1842)Bells and Pomegranates. No. V - A Blot in the 'Scutcheon: A Tragedy in Five Acts (1843)Bells and Pomegranates. No. V - Colombe's Birthday: A Play in Five Acts (1844)Bells and Pomegranates. No. VII - Dramatic Romances & Lyrics(1845)Bells and Pomegranates. No. VIII - and Last, Luria; and A Soul's Tragedy (1846)Dramatis Personae (1864)Fifine at the Fair (1872)Poems: A New Edition (1849)Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society (1871)Strafford: An Historical Tragedy (1837)

  5. References • Evertt, Glenn. "Robert Browning - Biography." The Victorian Web: An Overview. University of Tennessee, 7 May 2007. Web. 21 Feb. 2012. <http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/rb/rbbio.html>. • "Robert Browning." Poets.org. Academy of American Poets, 1997. Web. 21 Feb. 2012. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/182>.

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