The Young Folks' Browning Selected from the Poems of Robert Browning (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Young Folks' Browning: Selected From the Poems of Robert Browning Robert browning was born May 7, 1812, in Cam berwell, a suburb of London. To his father, who was a lover of books, the poet owed the early forming Of a taste for reading and the acquirement of a keen appreciation in literary values. As a boy, and in fact throughout his life of seventy seven years, Browning was robust, vigorous, exuber ant Of mind and body. His father, who, it is said, never suffered a day's illness, blessed the boy with more than a taste for good books. He gave him a sound body as a fitting mansion for a sane and opulent mind. How glad, the poet says, in Soul. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.