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Robert Browning had begun publishing in 1833. He had published Pauline in 1833 and this is the poem that had begun his career. His parents had paid for Pauline to be published (Robert Browning 2). Robert had begun to write a dramatic poem called Paracelsus. It was a series of monologue’s spoken by a Swiss Doctor and Al Chemist Paracelsus and his co-workers (Robert Browning 2). He had created a series of plays for a theater which were not successful and no one really remembers them today. Sordello was a long poem that talked about a feud going on in Italy during the medieval times (Robert Browning 2). During the1840’s he had published plays and shorter poems under the volume Bells and Pomegranates. Even though they are admired now, they were ignored back then due to another one of his works Sordello (Robert …show more content…

Robert Browning had been writing Elizabeth Barrett letters expressing how much he likes her books and her writing. Then he sent her a letter expressing his love for her which had frightened her, thinking that he had real feelings for her (Relationship). That letter had made Elizabeth hesitate because she knew that love could bring injury or be beneficial or helpful. Her dad had made her feel a helpless love before and did not want to go through it again (Relationship). Due to Elizabeth being hurt in love once before, she had become cautious to loving others. She had begun to question her heart because she was not young, she was thirty-eight and Robert was younger which made her feel guilty and sorrowful (Relationship). Once Robert had gained Elizabeth’s trust, he wanted to combine their poetic gifts together. He did not want her to stop writing her works just so that she could just write him letters and to help him publish some more of his poems (Relationship). Robert and Elizabeth had kept their relationship a secret from her father until they had got married in 1846, so that they could be happy. Once they had got married they decided to

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