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Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems show for irony, characterisation, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax. His career began well, but collapsed for a time. The long poems Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835) were acclaimed, but in 1840 Sordello was seen as wilfully obscure. His reputation took over a decade to recover, by which time he moved from Shelleyan forms to a more personal style. In 1846 Browning married the older poet Elizabeth Barrett and went to live in Italy. By the time of her death in 1861 he had published the collection Men and Women (1855). His Dramatis Personae (1864) and book-length epic poem The Ring and the Book (1868-1869) made him a leading British poet. He continued to write prolifically, but his reputation today rests largely on his middle period. On his death in 1889, he was seen as a sage and philosopher-poet who had contributed to Victorian social and political discourse. Societies for study of his work formed in his lifetime. They remained common in Britain and the United States until the early 20th century.
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7 May 1812 Camberwell, London, England
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12 December 1889 (aged 77) Venice, Kingdom of Italy
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Robert Wiedemann Barrett 1st child with Elizabeth Barrett Browning Male b. 9 Mar 1849 Age: 176 1849- Celebrity Baby
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