Robert Browning
Robert Browning (1812-1889), born in London, was a major English poet of the Victorian age. He is noted for his psychological insight into character and motivations, his colloquial English, and his perfection of the dramatic monologue form. He influenced many modern poets, partly through his development of the dramatic monologue and his use of stream of consciousness. He was married to poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Best-Loved Poems
- By: Robert Browning
- Narrator: Steven Pacey
- Length: 2 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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3.9(5 ratings)
Seventy-one poems are included from these two influential poets of nineteenth century England who were also man and wife. The poetry reveals their passion, ideas, and dedication to social causes. This two-CD set offers the listener a convenient way to hear favorite poems of Elizabeth easilyand find the preferred poetry of Robert with maximum accessibility. Included among the poems of Robert are “Love among the Ruins,” “Home Thoughts from Abroad,” “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister,” “Abt Vogler,” “Rabbi Ben Ezra,” and sixteen others. Among Elizabeth’s best-loved works are “Grief,” “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point,” “Casa Guidi Windows,” the forty-four complete Sonnets from the Portuguese, and four others.
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- By: Robert Browning
- Narrator: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 5 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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4.02(4569 ratings)
Robert Browning was a deeply religious man who wrestled to obtain and keep his Christian faith. His conviction was that life in this world is so riddled with evil and sorrow that only a future life can make sense out of it. He viewed life as a training ground which God provided in His divine love and sovereign will.
Given Browning’s intensely romantic love affair with Elizabeth Barrett, it is characteristic that he should view love as life’s animating force and the key to its meaning. To Browning, the most dreaded fate would be to live a “ghastly smooth life, dead at heart.” This view of life is projected throughout his poetry.
Included in this collection are “Johannes Agricola in Meditation”, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”, “Youth and Art”, “Beatrice Signorini”, “Spring Song”, and many others.
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