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    In A Balcony: "As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire"
    In A Balcony: "As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire"
    In A Balcony: "As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire"
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    In A Balcony: "As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire"

    By Robert Browning

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    Robert Browning is one of the most significant Victorian Poets and, of course, English Poetry.

    Much of his reputation is based upon his mastery of the dramatic monologue although his talents encompassed verse plays and even a well-regarded essay on Shelley during a long and prolific career.

    He was born on May 7th, 1812 in Walmouth, London. Much of his education was home based and Browning was an eclectic and studious student, learning several languages and much else across a myriad of subjects, interests and passions.

    Browning's early career began promisingly. The fragment from his intended long poem Pauline brought him to the attention of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and was followed by Paracelsus, which was praised by both William Wordsworth and Charles Dickens. In 1840 the difficult Sordello, which was seen as willfully obscure, brought his career almost to a standstill.

    Despite these artistic and professional difficulties his personal life was about to become immensely fulfilling. He began a relationship with, and then married, the older and better known Elizabeth Barrett. This new foundation served to energise his writings, his life and his career.

    During their time in Italy they both wrote much of their best work. With her untimely death in 1861 he returned to London and thereafter began several further major projects.

    The collection Dramatis Personae (1864) and the book-length epic poem The Ring and the Book (1868-69) were published and well received; his reputation as a venerated English poet now assured.

    Robert Browning died in Venice on December 12th, 1889.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStage Door
    Release dateJan 1, 2018
    ISBN9781787376519
    In A Balcony: "As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire"
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    Robert Browning

    Robert Browning (1812-1889) was an English poet and playwright. Browning was born in London to an abolitionist family with extensive literary and musical interests. He developed a skill for poetry as a teenager, while also learning French, Greek, Latin, and Italian. Browning found early success with the publication of Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835), but his career and notoriety lapsed over the next two decades, resurfacing with his collection Men and Women (1855) and reaching its height with the 1869 publication of his epic poem The Ring and the Book. Browning married the Romantic poet Elizabeth Barrett in 1846 and lived with her in Italy until her death in 1861. In his remaining years, with his reputation established and the best of his work behind him, Browning compiled and published his wife’s final poems, wrote a series of moderately acclaimed long poems, and traveled across Europe. Browning is remembered as a master of the dramatic monologue and a defining figure in Victorian English poetry.

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      In A Balcony - Robert Browning

      In A Balcony by Robert Browning

      Robert Browning is one of the most significant Victorian Poets and, of course, English Poetry.

      Much of his reputation is based upon his mastery of the dramatic monologue although his talents encompassed verse plays and even a well-regarded essay on Shelley during a long and prolific career.

      He was born on May 7th, 1812 in Walmouth, London.  Much of his education was home based and Browning was an eclectic and studious student, learning several languages and much else across a myriad of subjects, interests and passions.

      Browning's early career began promisingly. The fragment from his intended long poem Pauline brought him to the attention of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and was followed by Paracelsus, which was praised by both William Wordsworth and Charles Dickens. In 1840 the difficult Sordello, which was seen as willfully obscure, brought his career almost to a standstill.

      Despite these artistic and professional difficulties his personal life was about to become immensely fulfilling.  He began a relationship with, and then married, the older and better known Elizabeth Barrett. This new foundation served to energise his writings, his life and his career.

      During their time in Italy they both wrote much of their best work. With her untimely death in 1861 he returned to London and thereafter began several further major projects.

      The collection Dramatis Personae (1864) and the book-length epic poem The Ring and the Book (1868-69) were published and well received; his reputation as a venerated English poet now assured.

      Robert Browning died in Venice on December 12th, 1889.

      Index of Contents

      PERSONS

      IN A BALCONY

      ROBERT BROWNING – A SHORT BIOGRAPHY

      ROBERT BROWNING – A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY

      Written in 1853, partly at Bagni di Lucca, partly at Rome. It was included in the original series of Men and Women and there divided into three parts.

      PERSONS

      NORBERT

      CONSTANCE

      THE QUEEN

      IN A BALCONY

      CONSTANCE and NORBERT.

      NORBERT

      Now!

      CONSTANCE

      Not now!

      NORBERT

      Give me them again, those hands:

      Put them upon my forehead, how it throbs!

      Press them before my eyes, the fire comes through!

      You cruellest, you dearest in the world,

      Let me!  The Queen must grant whate'er I ask—

      How can I gain you and not ask the Queen?

      There she stays waiting for me, here stand you;

      Some time or other this was to be asked;

      Now is the one time—what I ask, I gain:

      Let me ask now, Love!

      CONSTANCE

      Do, and ruin us!

      NORBERT

      Let it be now, Love!  All my soul breaks forth.

      How I do love you! Give my love its way!

      A man can have but one life and one death,

      One heaven, one hell. Let me fulfil my fate—

      Grant me my heaven now! Let me know you mine,

      Prove you mine, write my name upon your brow,

      Hold you and have you, and then die away,

      If God please, with completion in my soul!

      CONSTANCE

      I am not yours then?  How content this man!

      I am not his—who change into himself,

      Have passed into his heart and beat its beats,

      Who give my hands to him, my eyes, my

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