Here are the important questions on the life and works of Robert Browning that can help you to prepare English literature and English poetry.
Q1: When was Robert Browning born?
Answer: He was born on 7th May, 1812
Q2: Where was Robert Browning born?
Answer: He was born in Camberwell, London, England.
Q3: What made Robert Browning one of the most distinguished poets?
Answer: Robert Browning’s dramatic verses, especially the dramatic monologues made him the most distinguished poet especially of the Victorian age.
Q4: What was the first poem of Robert Browning?
Answer: His first poem was the lengthy Paracelsus, which appeared in 1835.
Q5: What was the poem Paracelsus about?
Answer: The poem described the career of sixteenth century alchemists.
Q6: Who is the famous and finest poetess that Browning fell in love with and married her?
Answer: Robert Browning and poet Elizabeth Barrett fell in love with each other and married secretly, they fled to Italy and lived there until Elizabeth died in 1861.
Q7: “Will’t please you sit and look at her?”, from which Browning poem this quote is taken?
Answer: My Last Duchess
Q8: What is the name of the work that Robert Browning dedicated to his wife Elizabeth Barrett?
Answer: Men and Women
Q9: Browning long narrative poem “The Ring and the Book” is based on which event?
Answer: An old book which told the tale of a Roman murder trial.
Q10: Apart from English, Browning learnt four types of language, what are these?
Answer: Latin, Greek, French and Italian
Q11: Which university did Browning go to in 1828?
Answer: University of London
Q12: In 1845, he was impressed by another author’s work, what is the name of the work?
Answer: He was impressed by Elizabeth Barrett’s “Poems”.
Q13: After his wife death, What Browning did do?
Answer: He returned to London with his son “Pen”.
Q14: “Which is the poison to poison her, prithee”, from which this quote is taken?
Answer: The Laboratory
Q15: When the famous poem of Browning Porphyria’s Lover is written?
Answer: It was written in 1836 and it is about a man who kills his lover.
Q16: In the poem “Porphyria’s Lover, Why the man kill his lover?
Answer: The protagonist kills his lover because he does not want her to go back in her social circle as she belongs to a higher class than her lover. He kills her to make her stay beside him.
Q17: In the poem Porphyria’s Lover, does the killer feel guilt or shame?
Answer: The killer does not feel any guilt. He tries to justify his actions and thinks that even God will understand why he did this.
Q18: Whom does the bishop address directly in “The Bishop Orders his Tomb at St. Praxed’s?
Answer: Anselm, (probably his son)
Q19: Who is the bishop’s rival in “The Bishop Orders his Tomb at St. Praxed’s?”
Answer: Gandolf is the bishop’s rival who stole Bishop’s woman and also his burial place.
Q20: What bishop wants on his tomb in “The Bishop Orders his Tomb at St. Praxed’s?”
Answer: Lapiz Lazuli, (a Blue Stone)
Q21: In the poem, Fra Lippo Lippi” how Fra Lippo Lippi got interest in Naturalism?
Answer: He spent his childhood in extreme poverty and in begging until he got into Church. He observed everything minutely since his childhood.
Q22: In the poem “Fra Lippo Lippi”, what is the name of the artist who is working under Fra Lippo Lippi”?
Answer: Hulking Tom
Q23: What is the name of the wife of Andrea Del Sarto in the poem “Andrea Del Sarto“?
Answer: Lucrezia
Q24: Who are the painters that Andrea Del Sarto thinks are better than him?
Answer: Rafael and Michel Agnolo
Q25: When was the poem Rabbi Ben Ezra written?
Answer: In 1864
Q26: Who is the speaker of the poem “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister?“
Answer: A MONK
Q27: When did Browning die?
Answer: He was died on 12th December 1889 in Venice, Italy.
