文档介绍：Rebert Browning and his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Biography
By the age of fourteen he was fluent in French, Greek, Italian and Latin. He became a great admirer of the Romantic poets, especially Shelley. Following the precedent of Shelley, Browning became an atheist and vegetarian, both of which he gave up later.
He had inherited substantial musical ability through his mother, posed arrangements of various songs. He refused a formal career and ignored his parents' remonstrations, dedicating himself to poetry. He stayed at home until the age of 34, financially dependent on his family until his marriage. His father sponsored(赞助) the publication of his son's poems.
Browning believed spiritualism to be the result of fraud, and proved to be one of Daniel Dunglas Home's( psychic巫师) most adamant critics.
The Pied Piper leads the children out of Hamelin. Illustration by Kate Greenaway to the Robert Browning version of the tale.
Major works
The long blank-verse无韵诗 poem The Ring and the Book Bullet Point
The Ring and the Book was the poet's most ambitious project and arguably(可论证地) his greatest work; it has been praised as a tour de force(旷世巨作) of dramatic poetry.
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. They began regularly corresponding and gradually a romance developed between them, leading to their marriage.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both Britain and the United States during her lifetime.