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(1812-1889)

Who Was Robert Browning?

Robert Browning was a prolific Victorian-era poet and playwright.

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He is widely recognized as a master of dramatic monologue and psychological portraiture. Browning is perhaps best-known for a poem he didn’t value highly, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, a children's poem that is quite different from his other work. He is also known for his long form blank poem The Ring and the Book, the story of a Roman murder trial in 12 books.

Browning was married to the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Early Life

Robert Browning was born on May 7, 1812 in Camberwell, a suburb of London. He and a younger sister, Sarianna, were the children of Robert Browning and Sarah Anna Browning. Browning’s father supported the family by working as a bank clerk (foregoing a family fortune because he opposed slavery), and assembled a large library — some 6,000 books — which formed the foundation of the younger Browning’s somewhat unconventional educati