Robert Browning

Keeping Up With the Brownings

John Lundberg | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Love Letters, Poetry, Browning Love Letters, Sonnets, Love Poems, Culture News
John Lundberg

The romance of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning got a lot of attention last week when scans of their love letters, previously available for viewing only at Wellesley college, went online just in time for Valentine's Day.

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WATCH: Love Letters Of Elizabeth Barrett, Robert Browning Go Online

AP | By DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Caroline Hazard, University of North Dakota, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sandra Donaldson, Love Letters, Valentines Day 2012, Valentine's Day, Valentines Day, Robert Browning, Wellesley, Henry Durant, Baylor University, Video, Books News

WELLESLEY, Mass. -- "I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett ..." So begins the first love letter to 19th-century poet Elizabeth Barr...

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Four Haunting Poems for Halloween

John Lundberg | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Wilfred Owen, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, Halloween, Halloween Poetry, Poetry, Poems, Dark Poems, Dark Poetry, Books News
John Lundberg

With Halloween just around the corner, I think it's a good time to share some of my favorite frightening poems.

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First Nighter: Tony Kushner's Intelligent Homosexual's Guide... Continues Genius Display

David Finkle | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Stephen Spinella, Michael Cristofer, Eli Yale, Slavs!, Steven Pasquale, Danielle Skraastad, Robert Browning, Matt Servitto, Angels in America, Michael Esper, Linda Emond, Arthur Miller, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Michael Greif, A Bright Room Called Day, Hettiene Park, K. Todd Freeman, Anton Chekhov, Brenda Wehle, Tony Kushner, Edward Albee, The Public Theater, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Molly Price, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures, Or Change, Andrea Del Sarto, Eugene O'Neill, Homebody/Kabul, Arts News
David Finkle

Kushner has produced a play also reminiscent of Arthur Miller at the top of his form, a play about which many ticket buyers will conclude he's equaled Miller's best.

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'Project Runway' And Poetry

The Poetry Foundation | Stephen Burt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: William Carlos Williams, Auden, Poets, Wallace Stevens, Project Runway, Poems, Poetry, William Wordsworth, Poetry Critics, Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, Tim Gunn, Heidi Klum, Books, Books News

Stephen Burt The Poetry Foundation If you follow contemporary poetry but you haven't been following "Project Runway," the popular cable TV show now i...

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Mad Men: "Love Among the Ruins" -- HuffPost Review

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ken Cosgrove, Roger Sterling, Robert Browning, Pete Campbell, Joan Holloway, Betty Draper, Matthew Weinter, Lane Pryce, Don Draper, Mad Men, Peggy Olsen, Vincent Kartheiser, Aaron Staton, Love Among the Ruins, Christina Hendricks, Jared Harris, Jon Hamm, Paul Kinsey, Michael Gladis, January Jones, John Slattery, John F. Kennedy, Entertainment News
William Bradley

We learned more about the characters and the changes taking place in this pivotal year. And we tapped into very contemporary themes about corporate disarray and aging parents.

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