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    A Day with Browning
    A Day with Browning
    A Day with Browning
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    A Day with Browning

    By Robert Browning

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      A Day with Browning - Robert Browning

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      Title: A Day with Browning

      Author: Anonymous

              Robert Browning

      Release Date: August 8, 2012 [EBook #40440]

      Language: English

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      BROWNING

      DAYS WITH POETS

      A Day with Browning

      The Palazzo Giustiniani Recanati was a place of historical association and fifteenth-century traditions.... At three o'clock regularly, a friend's gondola, which was always at hand to convey him, came and carried him, usually, to the Lido,—his favourite spot.

      Painting by E. W. Haslehust.

      BROWNING'S HOUSE IN VENICE.

      A DAY WITH THE POET BROWNING

      NEW YORK

      HODDER & STOUGHTON

      In the same Series.

      Longfellow.

      Tennyson.

      Keats.

      Wordsworth.

      Burns.

      Scott.

      Byron.

      Shelley.

      A DAY WITH BROWNING.

      ROM his bed-room window in the Palazzo Giustiniani Recanati, every morning in 1885, Robert Browning watched the sunrise. My window commands a perfect view, he wrote, the still, grey lagoon, the few seagulls flying, the islet of San Giorgio in deep shadow, and the clouds in a long purple rack, from behind which a sort of spirit of rose burns up, till presently all the rims are on fire with gold.... So my day begins.

      The Palazzo, in which a suite of rooms had been placed by Mrs. Bronson at the disposal of the poet and his sister, was a place of historical association and fifteenth-century traditions. And no more appropriate abiding-place than Venice could have been selected for a man of Browning's temperament. The Venetian colouring was a perpetual feast to his eye: its mediæval glories were a source of continual inspiration. And if much of his heart still remained with his native land, so that the London daily papers were a necessity of existence, and a certain sense of exile occasionally obtruded itself, we must needs be grateful to that fact for its result in certain immortal lines:

      Oh, to be in England

      Now that April's there,

      And whoever wakes in England

      Sees, some morning, unaware,

      That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf

      Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,

      While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough

      In England—now!

      And after

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