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Robert Browning

1812 - 1889

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Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax. His early long poems Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835) were acclaimed, but his reputation dwindled for a time – his 1840 poem Sordello was seen as wilfully obscure – and took over a decade to recover, by which time he had moved from Shelleyan forms to a more personal style. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Browning has received more than 2,845,238 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Robert Browning is the 1,378th most popular writer (up from 1,416th in 2019), the 1,049th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,129th in 2019) and the 123rd most popular British Writer.

Robert Browning is most famous for his poem "Pippa Passes" and his collection of poems "Men and Women."

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Robert Browning ranks 1,378 out of 7,302. Before him are Hartmann von Aue, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Rex Stout, Robert Wilson, Seymour Hersh, and Viktor Suvorov. After him are Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Mario Benedetti, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, and Aleksandr Kuprin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, Robert Browning ranks 18. Before him are Mirza Fatali Akhundov, Ascanio Sobrero, Maria Cristina of Savoy, Alfred Krupp, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, and Pertevniyal Sultan. After him are Natalia Pushkina, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, Friedrich von Flotow, Paul Abadie, Edward Lear, and Zuo Zongtang. Among people deceased in 1889, Robert Browning ranks 20. Before him are Marie of Prussia, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Wilhelm Tempel, Giovanni Bottesini, and Maria Mitchell. After him are Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, John Ericsson, Ignacy Domeyko, and Jules Dupré.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Browning ranks 1,049 out of 8,785. Before him are Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy (1936), James Stirling (1926), John Nettles (1943), Glenn Hughes (1951), Robbie Williams (1974), and Twiggy (1949). After him are John Hanning Speke (1827), Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (1768), Peter D. Mitchell (1920), Inigo Jones (1573), Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900), and Reginald Pole (1500).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Robert Browning ranks 123. Before him are Matthew Lewis (1775), P. G. Wodehouse (1881), Neil Gaiman (1960), Lee Child (1954), Allan Pinkerton (1819), and James Murray (1837). After him are Jane Hawking (1944), Seamus Heaney (1939), Winifred Wagner (1897), Colin Dexter (1930), Elizabeth Siddal (1829), and Vita Sackville-West (1892).

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