. Robert Browning . During the two years following very little information is obtainable withregard to Brownings movements, beyond the fact that he spent three monthsat St. Petersburg, nominally in the character of Secretary to the RussianConsul-General, Mr. Benckhausen. His letters home were full of graphicdescription ; and certainly his experiences abroad were not without theirmarked effect upon the development of his poetic faculties. Early in 1834 Browning paid a visit to Italy, when for the first time hebeheld Asolo and Venice, both places destined to play a large part in hisfuture life.
. Robert Browning . During the two years following very little information is obtainable withregard to Brownings movements, beyond the fact that he spent three monthsat St. Petersburg, nominally in the character of Secretary to the RussianConsul-General, Mr. Benckhausen. His letters home were full of graphicdescription ; and certainly his experiences abroad were not without theirmarked effect upon the development of his poetic faculties. Early in 1834 Browning paid a visit to Italy, when for the first time hebeheld Asolo and Venice, both places destined to play a large part in hisfuture life. In the same year Browning commenced his contributions to theMontUij RijtottUory—in all, five short poems, extending over a couple of , however, he was writing Paracelsus, which was completed inMarch, 1835. Paracelsus not only led to Brownings friendship withJohn Forster, but through it he obtained introductions to Carlyle, LandorMonckton-Milnes, Leigh Hunt, and many other well-known men of From a photograph taken by W. //. Grove in August 1889 ROBERT BROWNING SHORTLY BEFORE HIS LASTJOURNEY TO ITALY 32 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Pippa Passes see fa^e 6 Pied Piper ofHamelin seepage ii Elizabeth BarrettBrowning see page 5 No. 50, WlmpoleStreet seepage 2 Not long after the appearance of Paracelsus the Urowiiing familyremoved from Camberwell to a more commodious house at Hatcham, wherethe poet lived quietly for two or tliree years, an important intimacy beingformed by him with the great actor Macready. Being urged by the latter towrite for the stage. Browning set to work upon Strafford, which waspublished on May 1st, 1837, and produced at Covent Garden Theatre, whereit ran for only five performances, in spite of the fine acting of Macready andHelen Faucit. Z^Strafford was followed by Sordello, a long narrative poem, whichtofSk several years to complete, and though probably commenced shortly after Paracelsus, was not published before 1840, when it was coldly received
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