Browning procures Shelley's poems, also those of Keats, for her son t he perusal of these volumes proves an important event in his poetic development he leaves school when fourteen years old, and studies at home under a tutor attends a few lectures at University College, 1829-30 chooses his career, at the age of twenty earliest record of his utterances concerning his youthful life printed in
Fox's criticisms on them he comes across Shelley's "Dæmon of the World" Mrs. He wishes to be a poet writes in the style of Byron and Pope the "Death of Harold" his poems, written when twelve years old, shown to Miss Flower the Rev. Browning's opinion of his son's writings the home in Camberwell Robert Browning's childhoo d concerning his optimism his fondness for Carravaggio's "Andromeda and Perseus" his poetic precocity origin of "The Flight of the Duchess" writes Byronic verse is sent to school at Peckham his holiday afternoons sees London by night, from Herne Hill the significance of the spectacle to him. London, Robert Browning's birthplace his immediate predecessors and contemporaries in literature, art, and music born May 7th, 1812 origin of the Browning family assertions as to its Semitic connection apparently groundless the poet a putative descendant of the Captain Micaiah Browning mentioned by Macaulay Robert Browning's mother of Scottish and German origin his father a man of exceptional powers, artist, poet, critic, student Mr. LONDON WALTER SCOTT, LIMITED PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1897 CONTENTS.
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