1. Robert Browning's life
By: Misty Brent

2. What he’s most well know for…
Robert browning is most well known for his early monologue, My Last Duchess, Books About Robert browning .
Robert Browning is one of the famous poets of the 19th century .

3. Browning's poetic style
Mostly dramatic monologue
Also iambic pentameter

4. Victorian poetry
Victorian poetry is classified poetry written in England during the time of Queen Victoria. It followed the Romantic movement, and is marked by darker qualities and subjects.

5. Robert Browning's childhood!
Robert Browning was born on May 7, 1812, in Camberwell, London, England.
Both his parents passed on the love of art and literature and music.
while her strong and simple religious faith provided him with an lifelong belief in the existence of God. Robert was a bright child creating "masterpieces" of jam and pencil at the age of two and attending day school as "an infant."
Robert was very attached to all species of animals, hosting a wide variety of pets in his childhood. In 1828 Browning entered the University of London, but he dropped out after just half a year.

6. Robert Browning's adult life!
In the 1830s he met the actor William Macready and tried several times to write verse drama for the stage.
At about the same time he began to discover that his real talents lay in taking a single character and allowing him to discover himself to us by revealing more of himself in his speeches than he suspects-the characteristics of the dramatic monologue.
Then he became a more successful writer in poetry.

7. Robert Browning's marriage!
Robert Browning first met Elizabeth Barrett in 1845, after reading her poetry and corresponding with her for some time. They were married just a year later, in 1846 against the wishes of her father. A son was born to the couple in 1849, and they named him Robert "Pen" Browning. Elizabeth died in 1861.

8. Robert Browning Quotes:
"So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!" - "Andrea del Sarto" "If you get simple beauty and nought else, You get about the best thing God invents." - "Fra Lippo Lippi" "A man can have but one life and one death, One heaven, one hell." - "In a Balcony" "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in His hand Who said, 'A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid." - "Rabbi ben Ezra"