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Robert Browning

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Poet

The Resume

    (May 7, 1812-December 12, 1889)
    Wrote 'Pippa Passes (1841),' 'Dramatic Lyrics (1842),' 'Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845),' 'Men and Women (1855),' 'Collected Poems (1862),' 'Dramatis Personae (1864),' 'The Ring and the Book (1869),' and 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1888)'
    Husband of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Why he might be annoying:

    He was a college dropout.
    He married a woman six years his senior.
    Until her death, his wife was more famous than him.
    His poems are filled with obscure references.
    Oscar Wilde described his poetry as 'a grotesque, misshapen thing.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    By the time he died, he was a great success.
    He fell in love with Elizabeth Barrett Browning and married her even though she was a shut-in.
    He outlived his wife by 28 years.
    His poem 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' inspired Stephen King's 'Dark Tower' series.

Credit: Wieland Kalligaro


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 12 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 15 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 41 Votes: 56.10% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 26 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 39 Votes: 43.59% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 76 Votes: 61.84% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 125 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 179 Votes: 46.93% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 194 Votes: 45.88% Annoying