TWA Poets: Robert Browning

1812 - 1889

It’s the birthday of Victorian poet and playwright Robert Browning, born in Camberwell, England, in 1812. His mother was an accomplished pianist, and his father was a fairly well-off bank clerk whose personal library contained 6,000 books. Robert was educated at home and was a voracious reader from an early age. He loved the Romantic poets, especially S…