robert browning

     

Elizabeth Barrett mentioned this future husband in her poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship" before they met

Trivia about robert browning

  • His first letter to his future wife began: "I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett"
  • On January 10, 1845 he wrote, "I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett"
  • He began a correspondence with Elizabeth Barrett in 1845 & a year later they were married
  • He went ga-ga after reading Elizabeth's 1844 "Poems"; later they wed & he dedicated "Men and Women" to her
  • "Sonnets from the Portuguese" was so named because "Portuguese" was this man's nickname for its author
  • The husband of a famed love sonneteer, he wrote, "Escape me? Never--Beloved! While I am I, and you are you"
  • His series "Bells and Pomegranates" included "Pippa Passes" and "My Last Duchess"
  • Remember your classes / His "Bells and Pomegranates" collection / Includes "Pippa Passes"
  • The narrator of his 1845 poem "My Last Duchess" is a Renaissance duke of Ferrara
  • In 1841 "Pippa Passes"; in 1889 this poet passes; today, you can pass him by at Westminster
  • In "Home Thoughts from Abroad" this British poet pined, "Oh, to be in England now that April's there"
  • Husband of poet Elizabeth, he wrote "O' to be in England, now that April's there"
  • While he's buried next to Tennyson at Westminster Abbey, his wife Elizabeth is in Florence, Italy
  • "That's my last duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive. I call that piece a wonder, now"
  • This poet finished "The Ring and the Book", a story of a Roman murder case of the 1600s, 28 years after "Pippa Passes"
  • "Ah but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" is from his "Andrea Del Sarto"
  • This British poet wrote, "That's my last duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive"
  • "Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set and blew. 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.' "
  • "A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" is from his poem "Andrea del Sarto"
  • This "Andrea del Sarto" poet spent his final days at Ca' Rezzonico, the palatial home of his son Pen, & died there in 1889
  • He wrote the lines "The lark's on the wing, the snail's on the thorn, God's in his heaven, all's right with the world"
  • 1849:The former Elizabeth Barrett
  • Before he began courting, he wrote in an 1845 letter, "I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett"
  • He wrote the poem from which Pippa Passes, Kentucky took its name
  • Pen, my boy, I fell in love with your mother's poetry before I met her in person at her Wimpole Street house in May 1845