Nice maroon cloth bindings with gilt lettering to spine! Sadly this is not a complete set.

Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 – December 12, 1889) was an English poet and playwright.

Robert Browning married Elizabeth Barrett in 1846 after a courtship that lasted two years and gave rise to one of the most celebrated epistolary correspondences in literary history. Secretly married at Marylebone, the pair left England and eventually took up residence in Florence, Italy, where they lived what is generally considered to have been a very happy married life until Elizabeth's death in 1861. They had one son: Pen.

During this period Elizabeth published several major works: most notably Casa Guidi Windows, a long poem, and Aurora Leigh, a verse novel. Robert Browning published a volume of theological poetry - Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day - and wrote the two volumes on which his reputation was principally to rest during the Twentieth Century: Men and Women (1859) and Dramatis Personae (1864). In these collections, Browning included many of the finest examples of the dramatic monologue, a form of poety of which he and Tennyson were the principal pioneers and that was to exert a significant influence upon such later poets as T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Amongst the canonical examples of this form are such among Browning's monologues of this period as: "Andrea del Sarto", "Fra Lippo Lippi", "Bishop Blougram's Apology", "A Death in the Desert", "Caliban Upon Setebos" and "Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"".

Although the period of his marriage was not a prolific one compared with Browning's youth or later life, it saw a steady rise in his reputation and produced some of his most enduring works.

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