【英文原著类】Life of Robert Browning(罗伯特·布朗宁传).pdf

Life of Robert Browning
Life of Robert Browning
by William Sharp
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Life of Robert Browning
Note.
In all important respects I leave this volume to speak for itself. For
obvious reasons it does not pretend to be more than a `Memoire pour
servir': in the nature of things, the definitive biography cannot appear for
many years e. None the less gratefully may I take the present
opportunity to express my indebtedness to Mr. R. Barrett Browning, and to
other relatives and intimate friends of Robert Browning, who have given
me serviceable information, and otherwise rendered kindly aid. For some
of the hitherto unpublished details my thanks are, in particular, due to Mrs.
Fraser Corkran and Miss Alice Corkran, and to other old friends of the
poet and his family, here, in Italy, and in America; though in one or two
instances, I may add, I had them from Robert Browning himself. It is with
pleasure that I further acknowledge my indebtedness to Dr. Furnivall, for
the loan of the advance-proofs of his privately-printed pamphlet on
"Browning's Ancestors"; and to the Browning Society's Publications --
particularly to Mrs. Sutherland Orr's and Dr. Furnivall's biographical and
bibliographical contributions thereto; to Mr. Gosse's biographical article in
the `Century Magazine' for 1881; to Mr. Ingram's `Life of E. B. Browning';
and to the `Memoirs of Anna Jameson', the `Italian Note-Books' of
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mr. G. S. Hillard's `Six Months in Italy' (1853), and
the Lives and Correspondence of Macready, Miss Mitford, Leigh Hunt,
and Walter Savage Landor. I regret that the imperative need of concision
has prevented the insertion of many of the letters, anecdotes, and
reminiscences, so generously placed at my disposal; but possibly I may
have eeded in educing from them some essential part of that light
which they undoubtedly cast upon the personality and genius of the poet.
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Life of Robert Browning
CHAPTER 1.
It must, to admirers of Browning'