English poet and playwright Robert Browning was born #OTD in 1812.
His early long poems Pauline and Paracelsus were acclaimed, but his reputation dwindled for a time – his 1840 poem Sordello was seen as wilfully obscure. By the death of Elizabeth Barrett in 1861 he had published the collection Men and Women. His Dramatis Personae and book-length epic poem The Ring and the Book made him a leading poet.
Books by Robert Browning at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/146