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1812: Born in Camberwell, a suburb of London 1824:began to write poetry 1833:his first important poem---Pauline ---was published 1835:his next poem---Paracelsus 1837: tragedy Strafford 1845: Browning met Elizabeth Barrett and got married in the next year. 1861:After Elizabeth Browning died, he returned to England, and became part of the London literary circle, that his reputation started to take off. 1889:his last book, Asolandowas published the day of his death, December 12, 1889. he was buried at Westminster Abbey. Elizabeth Barrett Browning伊丽莎白·巴蕾特·布朗宁(1806-1861) 1.The most respected and successful woman poet of the Victorian period 2. Browning’s wife.She is a socially engaged realist. Her early years Born March 6, 1806 in Durham England. At age 15, injured her spine in a riding accident. devoted herself entirely to literature. Her married life Robert’s Love Letter to E.B.B, Main achievement His most significant contribution to English poetry: the verse form called Dramatic Monologue Influence Victorian and modern poets have found it can fully present the characters who are quite alien to their values and beliefs by allowing them to speak for themselves. These monologues greatly influenced many later poets, including T.S.Eliot and Ezra Pound Dramatic Monologue Dramatic monologue is a kind of poem in which a single fictional or historical character other than the poet speaks to a silent “audience” of one or more persons. Such poems reveal not the poet’s own thoughts but the mind of the impersonated character, whose personality is revealed in the presence of a listener, which distinguishes from a soliloquy. comment Browning has been praised as a “gallant, courageous and high-hearted figure,” well-known for buoyant optimism. He is “preeminently the poet of happy, healthy energetic youth.” He and Tennyson were the two most important poets of the Victorian Period. 后来呀 乡愁是一方矮矮的坟墓 我在外头 母亲呵在里头 而现在 乡愁是一弯浅浅的海峡 我在这头 大陆在那头 Home- Thoughts, f