Robert Browning Research Paper

Robert Browning Robert Browning was born on May 7, 1812, in Camberwell, England. His mother was a successful pianist and a Christian. His father was a banker, artist, scholar, antiquarian, and collector of books and pictures. He had more than 6,000 volumes of books in his library including Greek, Spanish, Italian, Latin, French, and Hebrew. Browning was mainly educated through his father, by five; he was doing well in reading and writing. He learned Greek, French, and Latin by the time he was fourteen. During the ages of fourteen to sixteen, he was homeschooled. He had many tutors for many different things such as; dancing, music, drawing, and horsemanship. Robert Browning’s ideas, creativity, poems, stories, and plays all turn into a vivid

Browning’s next poetic production, Paracelsus (1835), achieved more critical regard and began to move toward the greater objectivity of the dramatic monologue form that Browning perfected over the next several years.” Browning may have not had the best education but he was clearly a very intelligent man. He had a very creative mind set and made a ton of poems, stories, plays

The Brownings had one child, Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning, called “Pen,” born in 1849 (the same year Browning’s mother died). Both parents doted on the boy, and Robert Browning took particular responsibility for his son’s education—yet another diversion from poetic production. The poet who some years earlier had produced a major children’s poem to amuse the son of a friend made no similar creations for his own son, however, but continued to work on longer philosophical poems for an adult audience.” After a while, Browning’s audience died down, and eventually, so did he. Browning’s popularity was killed off mainly by critics and negative reviews. Poertyfoundation.org lastly states, “Through all the vicissitudes of critical reputation, however, Browning’s major contribution to the canon of children’s literature, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin,” has retained its popular audience.”

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!”

- Robert