BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
ROBERT BROWNING
Robert browning was son of well to do official of the bank of England. After the ages of fourteen he had little formal education but educated himself privately man with the help and encouragement of his father a highly cultivated man with the help an excellent library. Thanks to his father's generosity browning was able to devote his whole life to literature. His early long poem pauline, paracelsus and sordello attracted much attention because of their originally and forcefulness but their terse and vigorous style sometimes degnerated into an awkwardness and obscurity that repelled his less intellectual and persevering readers. Fortunately he never again was to write a poem as obscure as sordello. He wrote many beautiful lyrics but the most striking and characteristic of the shorter poems are his dramatic monologues soliloquies spoken by all manner of men and women of various places and periods. His greatest long poem is the ring and the book a work of great force and originally in which the story of a murder is told time after time from the viewpoints of the different participants in tragedy...
ROBERT BROWNING
Robert browning was son of well to do official of the bank of England. After the ages of fourteen he had little formal education but educated himself privately man with the help and encouragement of his father a highly cultivated man with the help an excellent library. Thanks to his father's generosity browning was able to devote his whole life to literature. His early long poem pauline, paracelsus and sordello attracted much attention because of their originally and forcefulness but their terse and vigorous style sometimes degnerated into an awkwardness and obscurity that repelled his less intellectual and persevering readers. Fortunately he never again was to write a poem as obscure as sordello. He wrote many beautiful lyrics but the most striking and characteristic of the shorter poems are his dramatic monologues soliloquies spoken by all manner of men and women of various places and periods. His greatest long poem is the ring and the book a work of great force and originally in which the story of a murder is told time after time from the viewpoints of the different participants in tragedy...
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