A wonderful poet, loving husband, and caring father can be found when Robert Browning is looked at. Robert Browning was recognized during the course of his life as one of the greatest poets alive and still hundreds of years after his death he is still revered as one of the world’s greatest poets ever to live, Browning is especially known for his dramatic monologues. Robert Browning loved and respected poets such as Shelley and learned many things from him. Robert Browning was a man who loved poetry and helped to mold the face of Victorian poetry.

Robert Browning was born on May 7, 1812 in Camberwell, England (Glenn Everett 1). Robert lived with his parents, Robert and Sarah Anna Browning, and his sister, Sarianna (Ian Lancashire). Robert received much of his early education at home from his father who was an extremely well read man (Everett 1). Browning’s father would recreate the battle of Troy for his son as a fun educational way of learning history in their house using chairs (Everett 1). Browning’s father also had a library of over 6,000 volumes that he used to teach young Robert from (Everett 1). Robert’s education was a very important thing in his life that took priority o

Robert Browning was a man of character that loved his family dearly and dedicated much to the world of poetry. Whether Browning was mastering the dramatic monologue or just sitting back writing about urban life Robert Browning was always on his way to being on the world’s most revered poets. Though Robert Browning is laid to rest in Poet’s Corner at Westminster Abbey his idea and beliefs are alive in his poetry.

Robert Browning began using the dramatic monologue to write so that he could connect with his audience better and to use a silent auditor who would later become a coauthor (Shaw 60). Browning wanted to reveal himself to his audience through his dramatic monologues. When Browning uses the dramatic monologue he not only uses a distinctive feature that sets him apart from his auditor but he also uses an element of disinterested persuasion (Shaw 61). This element of disinterested persuasion allows Browning to have yet another edge on his auditor, W. David Shaw says, “The interference of disinterested persuasion with a speaker’s attempt to secure some kind of personal advantage enables him to grow in stature.” Browning used this style in “Fra Lippo Lippi” when this form with the disinterested persuasion allowed the Fra Lippo to cross contradictions of this world and into a higher religious state (Shaw 61). Many people have wondered why out of all of the forms of poetry in the world would Browning choose to use the dramatic monologue? “If there is a single reason for Browning’s mastery of the monologue, it is his happy presentation of Christian dialectic in a literary form which keeps enacting the interference of disinterested persuasion with a speaker’s attempt to gain some personal advantage from his auditor,” is Shaw’s explanation for why Browning would choose to use the dramatic monologue.

Robert Browning covered many themes throughout his career as a poet in England. Readers and critics of Browning that have limited themselves to only a few of Browning’s works have often misconceived him as a pessimist in his poetry. Conceiving Browning as a pessimist would be very easy if one would only read poetry in which Browning wrote with a pessimistic viewpoint. The opposite would be true if one would only read Brown

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