In his teens, he discovered Shelley and adopted Shelleyian liberalism in opinion and confessionalism in poetry. The son of a bank clerk, Browning was long unsuccessful as a poet and was financially dependent upon his family until he was well into adulthood. Here is the entry on Browning in Benét’s Reader’s Encyclopedia: hen you read your way into his world, precisely his largest gift to you is his involuntary unfolding of one of the largest, most enigmatic, and most multi-personed literary and human selves you can hope to encounter.’ And since, of course, the encounter with ‘literary and human selves’ lies at the centre of the Geisteswissenschaften, I find this a very enticing comment indeed. Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom write of him, ‘. Today, 7 May, is the birthday of the Victorian poet, Robert Browning (1812-1889). 'The Lives of the Saints Are Applied Dogmatics'-On.A Sober, if Futile, Ecumenical 'Dialogue'.'I, Too, Was Included in Her Prayer'-Søren Kierkeg.'Most Honoured Cultivator of Piety'-St George the.
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