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    Christmas Eve
    Christmas Eve
    Christmas Eve
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    Christmas Eve

    By Robert Browning

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 2004
    Christmas Eve
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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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    • 3/5
      If you haven't reading Browning before, don't start with this one. Parts of the poem are quite engaging, but then it goes flat for a bit.
    • 2/5
      Hadn't realised that this was all in verse but enjoyed it nonetheless.Preferred the bulk of it written as rhyming couplets, the bits where the rhyme scheme switched to alternate lines was kind of jarring.Don't think I've read anything by Robert Browning before but I'll look out for more of his work in the future.Very Victorian and all to do with Christianity and belief, kind of a moral text.

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