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    A Study Guide for Robert Browning's "Love among the Ruins"
    A Study Guide for Robert Browning's "Love among the Ruins"
    A Study Guide for Robert Browning's "Love among the Ruins"
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    A Study Guide for Robert Browning's "Love among the Ruins"

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    A Study Guide for Robert Browning's "Love among the Ruins," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 28, 2016
    ISBN9781535827744
    A Study Guide for Robert Browning's "Love among the Ruins"

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      A Study Guide for Robert Browning's "Love among the Ruins" - Gale

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      Love Among the Ruins

      Robert Browning

      1855

      Introduction

      Love Among the Ruins is a poem by the English Victorian poet Robert Browning. It was first published in Browning's book Men and Women in 1855. Browning wrote the poem in 1852, while he was living in Paris. He had resolved to write a poem a day, and this poem was the result of his work on January 3rd. He placed the poem first in the book, a sign of the esteem in which he held it, and the poem's enduring popularity is confirmation of Browning's own view of its merits.

      Love Among the Ruins is one of many poems Browning wrote about love. It has a pastoral setting, in which a shepherd watches as his sheep make their way home across the fields in the twilight. He thinks of the ruins of an ancient city that lie below the fields, and he contrasts what he imagines to be the greed and corruption that prevailed in the city with the pure love he has with his beloved, who is waiting for him in a ruined turret. He concludes that love is the best thing to have, far better than the values he thinks people lived by in the ancient, long-gone city. With its unusual meter and stanzaic structure, Love Among the Ruins is a good example of Browning's inventiveness as well as one of his favorite themes, that of love.

      Author Biography

      Browning was born on May 7, 1812, in Camber-well, London. His father, Robert, was a clerk in the Bank of England; his Scottish mother, Sarah Anna, was a pianist and an Evangelical (a member of a popular Protestant Christian movement). As a young boy, Browning attended school,

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