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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 2,634,059 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Robert Browning is the 1,419th most popular writer (down from 1,162nd in 2019), the 1,133rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 906th in 2019) and the 124th most popular British Writer.

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

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  • 2.6M

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  • 58.12

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  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Robert Browning ranks 1,419 out of 5,755Before him are Qiu Jin, Louise Labé, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, Béla Balázs, Mukhtar Auezov, and Giuseppe Ungaretti. After him are Siegfried Lenz, Joseph Needham, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Ira Levin, Ibrahim ibn Yaqub, and Blaise de Vigenère.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, Robert Browning ranks 19Before him are Amélie of Leuchtenberg, Alfred Krupp, Sigismond Thalberg, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, Friedrich von Flotow, and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen. After him are Natalia Pushkina, Paul Abadie, Zuo Zongtang, Pertevniyal Sultan, Edward Lear, and Édouard Séguin. Among people deceased in 1889, Robert Browning ranks 20Before him are Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Marie of Prussia, Wilhelm Tempel, Giovanni Bottesini, Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, and Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. After him are Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, Ion Creangă, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, John Ericsson, Ignacy Domeyko, and Gaston Planté.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Browning ranks 1,133 out of 7,765Before him are Rosamund Pike (1979), Idris Elba (1972), George Fox (1624), Antony Flew (1923), John William Godward (1861), and Peter Green (1946). After him are Ian Anderson (1947), Joseph Needham (1900), Francis Walsingham (1532), Ealhswith (852), John Schlesinger (1926), and Angus Deaton (1945).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Robert Browning ranks 124Before him are Neil Gaiman (1960), John Dryden (1631), Lord Alfred Douglas (1870), Colin Dexter (1930), Matthew Lewis (1775), and Robert Faurisson (1929). After him are Joseph Needham (1900), James Murray (1837), Evelyn Waugh (1903), Allen Carr (1934), Michael Moorcock (1939), and Samuel Pepys (1633).