Robert Browning [pp. 533-536]

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by D. APPLETON & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
No. 137.-VOL. VI.] SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1871. [PICE TEN CEas.
ROBERT BROWNING.
HE materials for a biography of Robert Browning are provoking- strongly he may have been drawn to the Past of Italy, he was drawn
ly scanty. He was born at Camberwell, a suburb of London, in still more strongly to its Present-to the life which went on around
1812. His father's him in the streets
family were dissent- and palaces of its de ers, a circumstance
that influenced his
early education, which vlg,spmi
is said to have been n t w
less conventional and t
restricted than it' I!(;i' He mingled with the
could well have been, Italian p
if it had been mould- fewiEnglihmenxhav
ed after the traditions
of English scholar- d
ship. lie was edu- / patois, studied their
.ship. I-le was edu-,
cated at the London
much at home with
University, then a them as Shakespeare
comparatively new
institution, the plan hostlers at Eastcheap,
of which originated ohiflwath
with the poet Camp bell, and the success
of which was in a i -- - -potwohsbein
large measure due to;' / / Itk se hs iprd
Mr. (afterward Lord) \\~$ " / ~ ay a ecm
Brougham. When Mr. ~71, ae ihM.Bon
Browning entered the /ig oha ead
London Uiniversity- hskoldeo tl
how long he remained -- a ieadcaatr
there-and what pro- -— adteuewihe
gress he made in his ->- hamdeoitnhs
studies, is nowhere >vre
stated. At the ageThaperneo
of twenty be trav- BrwigsPa
elled in Italy, whereraes,"i185o
he turned his atten-'6 a neeti
tion to medieval his-h
tory, spending much y Ita n
of his time in thsired
monasteries of Loi-rse for,
bardy and aVenice, cs
whose old libraries ~ on e prca
were crammed with re itfale
the lore h e soughtt
-dusty records of ROBERT BROWNING.thpulc Ane
great personages longi
since gone to dust,reg
with all their vices and virtues forgotten. He entered thoroughly nized. It should be said on behalf of thpulctater
into the spirit of the mediieval period, as many a bookworm be- was no existing standard by which they colmesrhian
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