The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . BROWNIE, kind of domestic spirit in the folk-lore of Scotland. See Apparitions, Vol. II, For a modern limner of brownies, see Palmer,Cox, in these Supplements. *BROWNING, Robert, an English poet, was bornon May 7, 1812, in Camberwell, London. His father, a man of sturdystock, was a diligentreader, whose 40 years ofservice in the Bank ofEngland resulted in pe-cuniary mother was a womanof devout sensibilities,warmly attached to a dis-senting church, for whichthe poet throughout hislife
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . BROWNIE, kind of domestic spirit in the folk-lore of Scotland. See Apparitions, Vol. II, For a modern limner of brownies, see Palmer,Cox, in these Supplements. *BROWNING, Robert, an English poet, was bornon May 7, 1812, in Camberwell, London. His father, a man of sturdystock, was a diligentreader, whose 40 years ofservice in the Bank ofEngland resulted in pe-cuniary mother was a womanof devout sensibilities,warmly attached to a dis-senting church, for whichthe poet throughout hislife showed a markedaffection. The boy at 12years of age had written a considerable number ofverses, for which his father vainly sought a child was fond of strange pets, was mysticallypious, rather self-assertive, but not devoid of thehealth and good spirits that seldom deserted theman. The poems of Shelley and Keats, then farfrom being popular, riveted his attention and rousedhis enthusiasm when he was scarcely 14 years of age. •Copyright, i8g6, by The Werner Company,. ROBERT BROWNING. He was put in a school at Dulwich, acquired someknowledge of music, loved athletic exercises, caredlittle for mathematics, and left the benches of theUniversity of London with his course of studyincomplete. Brownings first published work, Pau-line, a Fragment of a Confession, published in 1832,was of suggestive character, showed considerableart of metrical composition, and was recognized bya few, like John Stuart Mill and Dante Rossetti, asgiving promise of good work to come. Fifty-sevenyears later the author brought it out in a revisedform and much improved. In 1834 he was in , connected with the British legation, butthe following year he was again in London, and gaveto the public Paracelsus, his father paying for thepublication. Both of these works indicated thefuture lines of Brownings productiveness. Themental analysis that goes on in Pauline had to bemade objective
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