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ROBERT BROWNING

BORN MAY 7, 1812.

DIED DECEMBER 12, 1889.




GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS




AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF BROWNING


The first and perhaps the final impression we receive from the work of
Robert Browning is that of a great nature, an immense personality. The
poet in him is made up of many men. He is dramatist, humorist, lyrist,
painter, musician, philosopher and scholar, each in full measure, and he
includes and dominates them all. In richness of nature, in scope and
penetration of mind and vision, in energy of passion and emotion, he is