About
Victorian poet and playwright whose best-known works include My Last Duchess and The Pied Piper of Hamelin. His later works include Men and Women and The Ring and the Book.
Before Fame
He was fluent in French, Italian, and Greek by the time he was in his mid-teens.
Trivia
Browning's poem "Childe Rowland to the Dark Tower Came" inspired horror writer Stephen King's novel The Dark Tower.
Family Life
He married fellow poet
Associated With
He admired the work of Percy Bysshe Shelley and emulated Shelley's vegetarian lifestyle for a time.
