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Robert Browning

February 2023

  • Josie Stewart pictured sitting on a park bench

    Brief letters
    Brave civil service whistleblowers give us hope for public life

    Brief letters: Allegiance to the truth | Energy poverty | Burning hope | Bye, bye, bye Browning | Dominic Raab

October 2021

  • An engraving of the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, subject of Paula Milne’s new script.

    ‘My Elizabeth Barrett Browning film needs a woman’s touch – but where are all the female directors?’

    Screenwriter of biopic about the radical poet says the industry must do more to get women behind the camera lens

July 2021

  • Poet's Love Is Remembered In The Browning Room At St Marylebone Parish Church<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 31: A bronze cast of the "Clasped Hands of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning" by Harriet Goodhue Hosmer is displayed in St Marylebone's Church on January 31, 2017 in London, England. British poet Elizabeth Browning married playwright Robert Browning in secret at the church in 1846, before fleeing to Italy. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Sonnet from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    A defiant assertion of the poet’s power to overcome physical separation from her beloved

October 2020

  • John Lennon and Yoko Ono

    How a TV baseball movie inspired late Lennon love song

    Beatles expert studied dozens of obscure films to solve mystery of the 1980s track Grow Old With Me

January 2020

  • detail from Rachel Whiteread’s installation Place (Village) at the Museum of Childhood.

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: House by Robert Browning

    A brilliantly wry poem about poetry that reaches farther into society than you might expect

September 2019

  • A reproduction of a portrait of Ivan Turgenev by A I and L I Kurakovs Turgenev Library<br>B94G4C A reproduction of a portrait of Ivan Turgenev by A I and L I Kurakovs Turgenev Library

    The Europeans by Orlando Figes review – the importance of a shared culture

    Turgenev’s menage a trois is at the centre of a timely, splendid survey of ‘the unifying force of European civilisation’

May 2019

  • Geoffrey Hill

    The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin by Geoffrey Hill review – the last judgments

    Hill dishes out the thunderbolts in a demanding portrayal of a nation out of kilter

February 2019

  • Adam Foulds for Saturday Review.

    Dream Sequence by Adam Foulds – review

    Adam Foulds skewers the world of acting in an entertaining novel that fizzes with wit

September 2018

  • Duncan Campbell

    Hatton Garden and the timeless allure of the artful dodger

    Duncan Campbell
    Why do we cheer on movie crooks, asks the writer who helped inspire King of Thieves

May 2016

  • Hooded monk wearing habit<br>AWPG3H Hooded monk wearing habit

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the Week: Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister by Robert Browning

    One monk’s foibles are another’s motivation for murder in this growling outburst of a poem, told with a rhythm that punches like a fist

July 2015

  • the Acropolis of Athens.

    Poster poems
    Poster poems: ruins

    Symbols of endurance as much as transience, these remnants of another age open on to a great variety of themes. Please share what you can build from the shards of history

May 2015

  • English poet Robert Browning, circa 1870.

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 14 May 1873: Robert Browning's new poem - review

    Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 14 May 1873: Mr. Browning takes up in turn all the various problems and enigmas of life as it presents itself in this latter half of the 19th century, but it is beyond his power to supply any solution

November 2014

  • Dylan Thomas's unsent envelope addressed to Osbert Sitwell

    Dylan Thomas’s list of Robert Browning poems is found on back of an envelope

    An enigmatic list of 12 Browning poems – scrawled by the Welsh poet on the back of an unsent envelope addressed to Osbert Sitwell – has been discovered by a rare book dealers

May 2014

  • Andrew Motion's desk

    Books blog
    The Poetry Archive makes itself new

    Andrew Motion: A decade ago we invented a great new online resource for poetry lovers. Mellifluous new bells and whistles have just made it even greater

April 2014

  • 1940, THE GRAPES OF WRATH

    Books blog
    John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and the literary spouse

    When Steinbeck was stumped for a title for his novel, his wife saved the day. Literary history is full of marital interventions, but what's your favourite example of writers wedded to their inspiration?

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