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The Life of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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- 1933
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- Wed Sep 29 2004

... The Life of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Robert Browning English poet, noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue. Robert Browning was long unsuccessful as a poet and financially dependent upon his family until he was well into adulthood. In his best works people from the past reveal their thoughts and lives as if speaking or thinking aloud. "Be sure I looked up her eyes --Happy and proud; at last I knew Porphyria worshipped me; surprise --Made my heart swell, and still it grew --While I debated what to do. That moment she was mine, mine, fair, --Perfectly pure and good; I found A thing to do, and all her hair --In one long yellow string I wound --Three times her little throat around, And strangled her. No pain felt she; --I am quite sure she felt no pain." (From 'Porphyria's Lover' in Dramatic Lyrics, 1842) Robert Browning was born in Camberwell, south London, as the son of Robert Browning, a wealthy clerk in the














