ROBERT BROWNING - ROBERT BROWNING: LIFE AND WORKS :
Robert Browning was born in 1812. His father worked in the Bank of England and was a man of literary interests. He had a vast collection of books in his personal library. Robert Browning's mother was a nice musician. It was natural for Robert Browning to be interested in literature and music. Before he entered University College, London he had acquired proficiency in French, Italian, Greek and Latin. However, he left the college without a degree. In his youth Browning was greatly influenced by Shelley- his poetry and his atheism. He did not remain an atheist for long but he continued to be a radical like Shelley. In 1845, Browning met Elizabeth Barrett in London. When her father objected to their marriage, they eloped to Italy, the country that fascinated Browning. Browning had started writing quite early. His first published work was a long poem - Paulie in which he tried to imitate Shelley's style. He attracted critical attention by Men and Women in 1855. The Ring and The Book is an ambitious poem of his in which he justified the ways of God through extended blank verse monologues.
These were greatly admired by Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot. His dramatic monologues portray a great variety of characters speaking to a silent listener about themselves at some important moment in their lives. It is not actually what they say that is important, more important are the things which they do not speak of directly but which are revealed through their tone and the implications of what they think and do. Browning died in 1889 and was buried im Westminster Abbey. Major Works Pauline 1833 Parcelsus 1835 Men and women 1855 Dramatic Personae 1864 The Ring and The Book 1869 Asolando 1889 .
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