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EDITED BY
PROFESSOR ERIC S. ROBERTSON, M.A.
LIFE OF BROWNING.
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London, Robert Browning's birthplace; his immediate pre-
decessors and contemporaries in literature, art, and music;
born May 7th, 1812; origin of the Browning family;
assertions as to its Semitic connection apparently ground-
less; the poet a putative descendant of the Captain Micaiah
Browning mentioned by Macaulay; Robert Browning's
mother of Scottish and German origin; his father a man
of exceptional powers, artist, poet, critic, student; Mr.
Browning's opinion of his son's writings; the home in
Camberwell; Robert Browning's childhood; concerning
his optimism; his fondness for Carravaggio's "Andromeda
and Perseus "; his poetic precocity; origin of "The Flight
of the Duchess"; writes Byronic verse; is sent to school
at Peckham; his holiday afternoons; sees London by
night, from Herne Hill; the significance of the spectacle
to him
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CHAPTER II.
He wishes to be a poet; writes in the style of Byron and Pope;
the "Death of Harold"; his poems, written when twelve
years old, shown to Miss Flower; the Rev. W. J. Fox's
criticisms on them; he comes across Shelley's
"Dæmon
of the World"; Mrs. Browning procures Shelley's poems,