Robert Browning . wing very little infVu-mation is obtainable withregard to Brownings mo\ements, beyond the fact that he spent three monthsat St. Petersburg, nominally in tiie character of Secretary to the RussianConsul-CJeneral, Mr. Benckhausen. His letters home were full of graphicdesciiption ; and certainly his experiences abroad were not without theirmarked effect u]>oii the development of his poetic faculties. Early in 18;U Browning paid a visit to Italy, when for the first time hebeheld .\solo and Venice, both places destined to play a laige part in hisfuture life. In the same year li


Robert Browning . wing very little infVu-mation is obtainable withregard to Brownings mo\ements, beyond the fact that he spent three monthsat St. Petersburg, nominally in tiie character of Secretary to the RussianConsul-CJeneral, Mr. Benckhausen. His letters home were full of graphicdesciiption ; and certainly his experiences abroad were not without theirmarked effect u]>oii the development of his poetic faculties. Early in 18;U Browning paid a visit to Italy, when for the first time hebeheld .\solo and Venice, both places destined to play a laige part in hisfuture life. In the same year lirowning commenced his contributions to theMont IIIji lc/)(()j\i/ -\\\ all, five short poems, extending over a couple of , however, he was writing Paracelsus, which was completed , Paracelsus not only led to iJrownings friendship withJohn loister, but through it he obtained introductions to (arlyle, Landor,.M(»iickton-Milnes, Leigh Hunt, and many other well-known men of Fioni a phot,\i:>aph taken l-y 11. 11. Grove in August iS ROBERT BROWNING SHORTLY BEFORE HIS LASTJOURNEY TO ITALY 32 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Pippa Passes see page 6 Pied Piper ofHamelin see patc 11 Elizabeth BarrettBrowning see /-uge s No. 50, WimpoleStreet see page 2 Not long after the appearance of Paracelsus the lirovvning familyremoved from Camberwell to a more commodious house at Hatcham, wherethe poet lived quietly for two or three years, an important intimacy beingformed by him with the great actor Macready. Being urged l)y the latter towrite for the stage, Browning set to work upon .Strafford, which waspublished on May 1st, 1887, and produced at Covent (Jarden Theatre, whereit ran for only five performances, in .spite of the fine acting of Macready andHelen Faucit. Strafford was followed by Sordello, a long narrative poem, whichtook several years to complete, and though probably commenced shortly afterParacelsus, was not published before 1840, when it was coldly


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