Robert Browning - San Diego, CA - Dead Poets' Society Memorials on Waymarking.com

This is one of several similar memorials located outside the rare books room on the 9th floor at the San Diego Central Library.

The piece has a relief depicting the Pied Piper playing a flute to the delight of a crowd of children. The writing depicts a library catalog card:

"Browning, Robert
The Pied Piper of Hamelin. With illustrations
by Kate Greenaway. London, George Routledge,
1888.
64p. illus. 25cm
First edition.
Inscriptions on 1/2 t.p., and verso of t.p.
Bookplate - Dorothy, Paul, Elsie Wormser."

Wikipedia (visit link) informs us:

"Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax.

Browning's early career began promisingly, but was not a success. The long poem Pauline brought him to the attention of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and was followed by Paracelsus, which was praised by Wordsworth and Dickens, but in 1840 the difficult Sordello, which was seen as wilfully obscure, brought his poetry into disrepute. His reputation took more than a decade to recover, during which time he moved away from the Shelleyan forms of his early period and developed a more personal style.

In 1846 Browning married the older poet Elizabeth Barrett, who at the time was considerably better known than himself. So started one of history's most famous literary marriages. They went to live in Italy, a country he called "my university", and which features frequently in his work. By the time of her death in 1861, he had published the crucial collection Men and Women. The collection Dramatis Personae and the book-length epic poem The Ring and the Book followed, and made him a leading British poet. He continued to write prolifically, but his reputation today rests largely on the poetry he wrote in this middle period."

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