“When that poem was written, two people knew what it meant, God and Robert Browning. And now God only knows what it means.”
About Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889
Robert Browning was born on 7 May 1812 at Southampton Cottage, Camberwell, then a semi-rural district south of London, and died on 12 December 1889 in Venice. Few English poets have combined such audacity of intellect, dramatic energy, moral curiosity, and technical resourcefulness. During his lifetime he moved from…