Christmas Eve

By Robert Browning

Robert Browning's Poem About Mortality
Out of the little chapel I burst
Into the fresh night-air again.
Five minutes full, I waited first
In the doorway, to escape the rain
That drove in gusts down the common's centre - Robert Browning, Christmas Eve

When the poet finds himself outside a church on Christmas Eve, he ventures inside and finds a conversation he never considered.
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xist Publishing
• Release date: Mar 17, 2016
• ISBN: 9781681955971

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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Reviews for Christmas Eve

[chrisethier · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

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.

[clicksclan · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

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.