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Robert Browning
B. 1812 D. 1889
Robert Browning was born in South London in 1812. He was largely self-educated, utilising his father’s extensive library of over six thousand volumes. A voracious reader, Browning would later draw…
Poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
B. 1806 D. 1861
…favourably to the work of Robert Browning; he wrote to thank her and started the remarkable series of letters between them, leading to their meeting and engagement. Their marriage in…
Poem
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix – an extract - Robert Browning
…This is the full text of the poem Browning was struggling to remember: How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris,…
The Mighty Dead
Home Thoughts, from Abroad
Read by Anthony Thwaite
Home Thoughts, from Abroad - Robert Browning - Read by Anthony Thwaite
Oh, to be in England Now that April’s there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole…
The Mighty Dead
Love in a Life
Read by Anthony Thwaite
Love in a Life - Robert Browning - Read by Anthony Thwaite
I Room after room, I hunt the house through We inhabit together. Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her— Next time, herself!—not the trouble behind her Left in…
The Mighty Dead
Porphyria’s Lover
Read by Anthony Thwaite
Porphyria’s Lover - Robert Browning - Read by Anthony Thwaite
The rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake: I listened with…
The Mighty Dead
My Last Duchess
Read by Anthony Thwaite
My Last Duchess - Robert Browning - Read by Anthony Thwaite
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf’s hands Worked busily a day, and there…
Poet
Mick Imlah
B. 1956 D. 2009
…and finally as a Junior Lecturer. The influence of Browning and Tennyson is immediately apparent in Imlah’s early poems, many of which are dramatic monologues spoken by characters who are…