Robert Browning

Robert Browning was born in 1812 and was educated for the most part in the six-thousand-volume library of his father, a clerk at the Bank of England. In 1846 he secretly married a poet better known than he was and six years his senior, against the will of her father, and lived with her in Florence until she died, in 1861. His obscurity was long held against him and recognition came late: a circle of readers founded a society in his name during his lifetime, in 1881. He died in 1889.

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• PoetryMen and WomenRobert Browning · 1855LiteraturePublic domain