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A Short Biography of Robert Browning

Author Name:

Robert Browning

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Born:

7 May 1812

Died:

12 Dec 1889




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Selected Works:

Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession - 1833
Paracelsus - 1835
Strafford - play - 1837
Sordello - 1840

Bells and Pomegranates No. I: Pippa Passes - play - 1841
Bells and Pomegranates No. II: King Victor and King Charles - play - 1842
Bells and Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics - 1842
Porphyria's Lover

Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
My Last Duchess
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Johannes Agricola in Meditation

Bells and Pomegranates No. IV: The Return of the Druses - play - 1843
Bells and Pomegranates No. V: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon - play - 1843

Bells and Pomegranates No. VI: Colombe's Birthday - play - 1844
Bells and Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances and Lyrics  - 1845

The Laboratory
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church

Bells and Pomegranates No. VIII: Luria and A Soul's Tragedy - plays - 1846
Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day - 1850

Men and Women - 1855

Love Among the Ruins
A Toccata of Galuppi's
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
Fra Lippo Lippi
Andrea Del Sarto
A Grammarian's Funeral
An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of  - Karshish, the Arab Physician

Dramatis Personae - 1864

Caliban upon Setebos
Rabbi Ben Ezra

The Ring and the Book - 1868-9
Balaustion's Adventure - 1871
Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society - 1871
Fifine at the Fair - 1872
Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, or, Turf and Towers - 1873
Aristophanes' Apology - 1875
The Inn Album - 1875
Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper - 1876
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus - 1877
La Saisiaz and The Two Poets of Croisic - 1878
Dramatic Idylls - 1879
Dramatic Idylls: Second Series - 1880
Jocoseria - 1883
Ferishtah's Fancies - 1884
Parleyings with Certain People of Importance In Their Day - 1887
Asolando - 1889.                          
Mother Sarah Anna Browning
Father Robert Browning
Wife Elizabeth Barrett, one child, Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning.                          
                          
By the age of fourteen Robert was fluent in French, Greek, Italian and Latin as well as his native English.