now a part of London. He had no real formal education so he was largely

self educated. His father was a smart man with an extensive library.

His mother was kindly, religious minded woman, who loved music and her

brilliant son. He lived at his parents house almost until the time of his

marriage. He attended a boarding school near Camberwell and spent a

little bit of his time traveling to places like Russia and Italy. But

he preferred to have his education at home, where he was tutored in

foreign languages, boxing, music, and horsemanship, and where he read

"omnivorously." At the age of 14 he first discovered Percy Shelly works

and was strongly influenced by it. After reading Shelly, He made the

decision to be an atheist and a liberal. But in a few years he grew away

from atheism and the extreme phases of his liberalism. The things he

learned from the books he read would largely influence his poems later in

His earlier poetry was regarded with indifference and largely

misunderstood. It was not until the 1860's that he would at last gain

publicity and would even be compared with Alfred Lord Tennyson, another

years of this remarkable marriage. While they were there, Robert wrote

His poem Pauline was followed by a dramatic poem called Paracelsus

his wife and is himself executed. "The Ring and the Book" is an extended

"a perceptive psychological study." This was the first writing that

sadistic husbands, mean and petty manipulators-is an extraordinary one."

father. Because of her poor health which was made worse by the English

Some topics in this essay:
Macready Browning, Robert Lowell, Robert Browning, Lord Tennyson, Camberwell London, Robert Browning's, Ring Book, Percy Shelly, Lippi Andrea, Dramatic Lyrics, robert browning, ring book, elizabeth's death, dramatic dialogue, robert browning's, attempt solve, browning's poetry, pippa passes, dramatic monologue,