Robert Browning 罗伯特 勃朗宁简介

• 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) • 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)
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
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Robert Browning was born in Camberwell - a district now forming part of the borough of Southwark in SouthLondon,England . His father was a well-paid clerk for the Bank of England, earning about £150 per year. Browning’s mother was a daughter of a German shipowner who had settled in Dundee, and his Scottish wife. Browning had one sister, Sarianna.
In 1833, Browning anonymously published his first major published work, Pauline, and in 1840 he published Sordello, which was widely regarded as a failure. He also tried his hand at drama, but his plays, including Strafford, which ran for five nights in 1837, and the Bells and Pomegranates series, were for the most part unsuccessful. Nevertheless, the techniques he developed through his dramatic monologues—especially his use of diction, rhythm, and symbol—are regarded as his most important contribution to poetry, influencing such major poets of the twentieth century as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Robert Frost.
Finaly, they were married in 1846, against the wishes of Barrett's father. The couple moved to Pisa and then Florence, where they continued to write. They had a son, Robert "Pen" Browning, in 1849, the same year his Collected Poems was published. Elizabeth inspired Robert's collection of poems Men and Women (1855), which he dedicated to her. Now regarded as one of Browning's best works, the book was received with little notice at the time; its author was then primarily known as Elizabeth Barrett's husband.
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Browning’s Marriage
• In 1845, Browning met the poet Elizabeth Barrett, six years his elder, who lived as a semi-invalid in her father's house in Wimpole Street, London. They began regularly corresponding and gradually a romance developed between them, leading to their marriage and journey to Italy (for Elizabeth's health) on 12 September 1846.
Major works
• • In Florence, probably from early in 1853, Browning worked on the poems that eventually comprised his two-volume Men and Women, for which he is now well known;in 1855, however, when these were published, they made relatively little impact. Elizabeth died in 1861: Robert Browning returned to London the following year with Pen, by then 12 years old, and made their home in 17 Warwick Crescent, Maida Vale. It was only when he returned to England and became part of the London literary scene—albeit while paying frequent visits to Italy,that his reputation started to take off. In 1868, after five years work, he completed and published the long blankverse poem The Ring and the Book. Based on a convoluted murder-case from 1690s Rome, the poem is composed of twelve books, essentially ten lengthy dramatic monologues narrated by the various characters in the story, showing their individual perspectives on events, bookended by an introduction and conclusion by Browning himself. Long, even by Browning's own standards (over twenty thousand lines), The Ring and the Book was the poet's most ambitious project and arguably his greatest work; it has been praised as a tour de force of dramatic poetry.Published separately in four volumes from November 1868 through to February 1869, the poem was a success both commercially and critically, and finally brought Browning the renown he had sought for nearly forty years.The Robert Browning Society was formed in 1881 and his work was recognised as belonging within the British literary canon.
A Selected Bibliography
• Poetry • Pauline (1833) • The Ring and the Book (10 verse narratives, 1868) • My Last Duchess (a dramatic monologue that explores the idea of possessive/distorted love) (1842) • Porphyria‘s Lover (a poem of love lust, and murder) (1836-42) • Home-Thoughts, from Abroad (1845) • Bells and Pomeganates (a series of his works,184146)
Browning’s early years
He began to write poetry while still quite young, influenced by P. B. Shelley. But his earliest works earned him nothing but some negative attention for their expression of strong sensations and their morbid tone. Thus for a time he set poetry aside to work on plays, finding in their fictional world an apt space for experimentation and development as a creative mind.