Robert Browning

How To Use Robert Browning In A Sentence

• It was a pathetic love story of the romanticist poetess Elizabeth Barrett and novice poet Robert Browning.
• Robert Browning is credited as the "precursor of Modernist technique" for he "energetically hacked through a trail that has subsequently become the main road of twentieth century poetry".
• The publisher Moxon went so far as to put out an edition of the Shelley forgeries, with an introduction by Robert Browning.
• His quote is, of course, from that fine poem The Lost Leader in which Robert Browning decries Wordsworth's desertion of liberal causes and his selling-out to the Tory establishment and values "Just for a handful of silver he left us,/ Just for a riband to stick in his coat... Letters: Electoral lessons for the Lib Dems and Labour
• The publisher Moxon went so far as to put out an edition of the Shelley forgeries, with an introduction by Robert Browning.
• Thus, Robert Browning becomes the hero of the romance of immortality.
• He was a distant cousin of Miss Barrett, and a friend of Robert Browning, who dedicated to him his volume of 'Dramatic Romances,' besides writing and sending to him 'Andrea del Sarto' as a substitute for a print of the painter's portrait which he had been unable to find. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
• When the Dodgers and the Giants left New York in 1957, he quoted Robert Browning: ‘Just for a handful of silver he left us, just for a riband to stick in his coat.’
• Now and again he has a good rummage though his bookshelf to see what he can find, and at the moment he's reading a book of Robert Browning's poetry.
• Robert Browning put it well when he wrote in Andrea del Sarto, "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? David Finkle: First Nighter: Tony Kushner's Intelligent Homosexual's Guide... Continues Genius Display