Robert Browning was born on May 7, 1812, in Camberwell ( a suburb of London ) , the first kid of Robert and Sarah Anna Browning. His female parent was a fervent and an complete piano player. Mr. Browning had angered his ain male parent and waive a luck: the poet; s gramps had sent his boy to supervise a West Indies sugar plantation, but the immature adult male had found the establishment of bondage so detestable that he gave up his chances and returned place, to go a clerk in the Bank of England. On this really modest wage he was able to get married, raise a household, and to get a library of 6000 volumes. He was an extremely well-read adult male who could animate the besieging of Troy with the family chairs and tabular arraies for the benefit of his speculative boy.
Indeed, most of the poet; s instruction came at place. He was an highly bright kid and a rapacious reader and learned Latin, Greek, Gallic and Italian by the clip he was 14. He attended the University of London in 1828, the first twelvemonth it opened, but left in discontent to prosecute his ain reading at his ain gait. This slightly typical but extended instruction has led to troubles for his readers: he did non ever recognize how vague were his mentions and allusions.
In 1845 he saw Elizabeth Barrett; s verse forms and contrived to run into her. Although she was an invalid and really much under the control of a domineering male parent, the two married in September 1846 and a few yearss subsequently eloped to Italy, where they lived until her decease in 1861. The old ages in Florence were among the happiest for both of them. Her love for him was demonstrated in the Sonnets from the Portugese, and to her he dedicated Men and Women, which contains his best poesy. Public understanding for him after her decease ( she was a much more popular poet during their life-times ) certainly helped the critical response of his Collected Poems ( 1862 ) and Dramatis Personae ( 1863 ) . The Ring and the Book ( 1868-9 ) , based on an ; old xanthous book; which told of a Roman slaying and test, eventually won him considerable popularity. He and Tennyson were now mentioned together as the first poets of the age. Although he lived and wrote actively for another twenty old ages, the late; 60s were the extremum of his calling. His influence continued to turn, nevertheless, and eventually take to the initiation of the Browning Society in 1881. He died in 1889, on the same twenty-four hours that his concluding volume of poetry, Asolando, was published. He is buried in Poet; Corner of Westminster Abbey.
