Robert Browning
Poet, Author
1812 – 1889
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Who was Robert Browning?
Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.
Famous Quotes:
- Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
- Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
- Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.
- Less is more.
- So free we seem, so fettered we are!
- Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
- My sun sets to rise again.
- Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
- Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
- Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
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- Born
- May 7, 1812
Camberwell - Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(1846/09/12 - 1861/06/29)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Children
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- University College London
- University of London
- Died
- Dec 12, 1889
Venice - Resting place
- Westminster Abbey
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on July 23, 2013
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