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In 1825, a cousin gave Browning a collection of shelly’s poetry. He aslo asked that for his thirteenth birthday and declared himself a vegetarian and an atheist in emulation of the poet.
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Robert is influenced by Shelley and begins writing poetry.
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Browning entered London University
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a fragment of a confession was published
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Robert attened the University of College London at the age 14
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Published his first series of unsuccefull plays, Strafford.
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First visit to Italy.
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In 1838 he visited Italy, looking for background for Sordello, a long poem in blank verse,presented as the imaginary biography of the Mantuan bard spoken
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Publishes Sordello, a dramatic monologue that established him as being an obsure poet.
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In 1845, Browning met the poet Elizabeth Barrett, six years his elder, who lived as a semi-invalid in her father's house in Wimpole Street, London
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Browing deciced to pursue a career as a poet.
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The marriage was initially secret because Elizabeth's domineering father disapproved of marriage for any of his children. Mr. Barrett disinherited Elizabeth, as he did for each of his children who married: “The Mrs. Browning of popular imagination was a sweet, innocent young woman who suffered endless cruelties
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Robert Wiedeman Barrett Browning
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After gradually declining in health for several years, Elizabeth Browning died
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Browning soon moved to London. Browning went on to publish Dramatis Personae
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Proposes to Lady Ashburton and gets rejected.
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Browning publishes his last collection of poems, Asolando.
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robert died at his son's home in Venice, Italy
