What are elements that contributed to robert brownings career besides his marriage to elizabeh browning?

Question

I need two. Im trying to do an outline for a research paper on him. I can do the research, Im just having difficulty with my thesis statement.

Thank you.

Answer 1

If you're asking for his influences then I have a few. He was influenced by the poetry of Byron and Shelley, whom he read in 1826. He briefly took on Shelley's beliefs of vegitarianism and atheism.

His friendship with Sarah Flower illustrates his high regard for women and provided inspiration for his first published poem 'Pauline'.

A somewhat medieval romance of Knighthood can be connected with his poem 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'.

Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of the Species'. Browning sought to modify the reaction of the masses to Darwin's book indirectly in some of his works.

He was also influenced by works of Shakespeare.