Robert+Browning

= __ Robert Browning __ = By: Alyssa, Jenna, and Sarah **Interesting Facts**: -He was born: May 7, 1812 in Camberwell, a London Suburb. -Learned Greek, Latin, Italian, and French all by the time he was 14. -He attended the University of London in 1828. -He had changing religious beliefs and his work reflected his life. -He wrote dramatic poems about love and lovers. -His first poem was "Pauline." -Robert Browning is most well known for his poem "The Ring and the Book." -Was one of the greatest poets of Victorian England. -From 1837 to 1846 Browning attempted to write verse drama for the stage. -In 1846 Browning married the poet Elizabeth Barrett. -He had one son, Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning. -He lived in Italy until his wife's death in 1861. -He died in 1889, on the same day that his final volume of verse "Asolando" was published. -He died on December 12, 1889. -He is buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.

**Quotes**:
 "A minute's success pays the failure of years."

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?"

"Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do."

"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."

" But what if I fail of my purpose here?"

"It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again."


 * Poems He Wrote: **
 * [|The Laboratory] ||
 * 2 || [|Porphyria's Lover] ||
 * 3 || [|My Last Duchess] ||
 * 4 || [|Meeting At Night] ||
 * 5 || [|Love Among The Ruins] ||
 * 6 || [|Any Wife To Any Husband] ||
 * 7 || [|Life In A Love] ||
 * 8 || [|Love In A Life] ||
 * 9 || [|My Star] ||
 * 10 || [|The Pied Piper Of Hamelin] ||
 * 11 || [|A Pretty Woman] ||
 * 12 || [|Parting At Morning] ||
 * 13 || [|A Woman's Last Word] ||
 * 14 || [|Home Thoughts, From Abroad] ||
 * 15 || [|Confessions] ||
 * 16 || [|Prospice] ||
 * 17 || [|The Patriot] ||
 * 18 || [|Memorabilia] ||
 * 19 || [|The Lost Leader] ||
 * 20 || [|A Light Woman] ||
 * 21 || [|The Year's At The Spring] ||
 * 22 || [|How They Brought The Good News From Ghent To Aix] ||
 * 23 || [|The Bishop Orders His Tomb At Saint Praxed's Church] ||
 * 24 || [|Boot And Saddle] ||
 * 25 || [|The Lost Mistress] ||
 * 26 || [|In A Gondola] ||
 * 27 || [|You'll love me yet!—and I can tarry] ||
 * 28 || [|Home Thoughts, From The Sea] ||
 * 29 || [|A Toccata Of Galuppi's] ||
 * 30 || [|Rabbi Ben Ezra] ||
 * 31 || [|Up At A Villa— Down In The City] ||
 * 32 || [|Epilogue To Asolando] ||
 * 33 || [|The Italian In England] ||
 * 34 || [|Two In The Campagna] ||
 * 35 || [|Waring] ||
 * 36 || [|Misconceptions] ||
 * 37 || [|The Englishman In Italy] ||
 * 38 || [|Through The Metodja To Abd-El-Kadr] ||
 * 39 || [|Overhead The Tree-Tops Meet] ||
 * 40 || [|Soliloquy Of The Spanish Cloister] ||
 * 41 || [|A Lovers' Quarrel] ||
 * 42 || [|Women And Roses] ||
 * 43 || [|The Twins] ||
 * 44 || [|The Guardian-Angel] ||
 * 45 || [|Why I Am a Liberal] ||
 * 46 || [|The Last Ride Together] ||
 * 47 || [|Bishop Blougram's Apology] ||
 * 48 || [|Life in a Bottle] ||
 * 49 || [|Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came] ||
 * 50 || [|A Grammarian's Funeral] ||
 * 51 || [|Now!] ||
 * 52 || [|One Way Of Love] ||
 * 53 || [|In Three Days] ||
 * 54 || [|Pippa's Song] ||
 * 55 || [|Caliban upon Setebos or, Natural Theology in the Island] ||
 * 56 || [|Song] ||
 * 57 || [|Another Way Of Love] ||
 * 58 || [|By The Fire-Side] ||
 * 59 || [|Fra Lippo Lippi] ||
 * 60 || [|Andrea del Sarto] ||
 * 61 || [|Verse-Making Was Least of My Virtues] ||
 * 62 || [|Evelyn Hope] ||
 * 63 || [|The Boy And the Angel] ||
 * 64 || [|Saul] ||
 * 65 || [|From ‘Paracelsus’] ||
 * 66 || [|Holy-Cross Day] ||
 * 67 || [|Popularity] ||
 * 68 || [|Summum Bonum] ||
 * 69 || [|The Glove] ||
 * 70 || [|From 'Pauline'] ||
 * 71 || [|Earth's Immortalities] ||
 * 72 || [|Man I Am and Man Would Be, Love] ||
 * 73 || [|Never The Time And The Place] ||
 * 74 || [|Before] ||
 * 75 || [|Youth and Art] ||
 * 76 || [|Among the Rocks] ||
 * 77 || [|In A Year] ||
 * 78 || [|Incident Of The French Camp] ||
 * 79 || [|Nationality In Drinks] ||
 * 80 || [|Garden Francies] ||
 * 81 || [|Old Pictures In Florence] ||
 * 82 || [|Mesmerism] ||
 * 83 || [|Epilogue] ||
 * 84 || [|The Flight Of The Duchess] ||
 * 85 || [|Cavalier Tunes: Boot and Saddle] ||
 * 86 || [|The Confessional] ||
 * 87 || [|Cristina] ||
 * 88 || [|Abt Vogler] ||
 * 89 || [|Time's Revenges] ||
 * 90 || [|Respectability] ||
 * 91 || [|Cleon] ||
 * 92 || [|Heretic's Tragedy, The] ||
 * 93 || [|The Wanderers] ||
 * 94 || [|Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha] ||
 * 95 || [|Pan and Luna] ||
 * 96 || [|The Statue and the Bust] ||
 * 97 || [|A Serenade At The Villa] ||
 * 98 || [|Song from 'Paracelsus'] ||
 * 99 || [|Aix In Provence] ||
 * 100 || [|To Edward Fitzgerald] ||
 * 101 || [|An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Kar] ||
 * 102 || [|De Gustibus---] ||
 * 103 || [|Cavalier Tunes: Marching Along] ||
 * 104 || [|Cavalier Tunes: Give a Rouse] ||
 * 105 || [|Instans Tyrannus] ||
 * 106 || [|Over the Sea our Galleys Went] ||
 * 107 || [|"Heap cassia, sandal-buds and stripes"] ||
 * 108 || [|Protus] ||
 * 109 || [|Dtatue And The Bust, The] ||
 * 110 || [|Thus the Mayne glideth] ||

"Robert Browning - Poems, Biography, Quotes." //Famous Poets and Poems - Read and Enjoy Poetry//. Web. 05 Dec. 2011. [].

Robert Browning's Wife**Elizabeth Barrett Browning**



**Robert Browning's House**



Robert Browning's Son **Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning**