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Browning grew up in London in a home that valued literature and the arts. By age 12, he’d written a volume of poetry, and he was a huge fan of the Romantic poets. He studied at University College London, though he didn’t get a degree. Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835) were his most famous early poems. He married fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett and moved to Italy. Following her death, he published his most enduring work, the book-length poem The Ring and the Book. You can read <anchor>Robert Browning</anchor>’s work in the book Browning: Poems, available from publisher Penguin Random House.
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# Robert Browning

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## About the Author

Robert Browning (1812-1889) was born in Camberwell, London, the son of a clerk in the Bank of England. The strongest influence on his education were the books in his father’s extensive library, particularly the writings of Byron and Shelley. His dramatic poem _Paracelsus_, published in 1835, established his reputation and brought him the friendship of the actor-manager William Macready. When Macready’s eldest son Willie was ill in bed, Browning wrote for the boy’s entertainment the poem of **The Pied Piper**, a story he remembered from his own childhood. After its appearance in print in 1842, it became a children’s classic, attracting new illustrators in every generation.

In 1846 Robert Browning married a fellow poet, Elizabeth Barrett, eloping with her to Italy where they lived until Elizabeth’s death in 1861. He them returned to England to live with his only sister Sarianna, but later he went back to Italy, where he died at the Rezzonico Palace in Venice.

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