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| Day 15 - Robert Browning  | Though he has often been overshadowed in the popular imagination by his famous wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning was a great eminence in Victorian poetry, best known for his dramatic monologues. | | "Rabbi Ben Ezra"
This is one of Browning’s later dramatic monologues, published in Dramatis Personae in 1864, several years after Elizabeth’s death. It was written about Abraham Ibn Ezra, a 12th century poet/mathematician, but we cannot escape hearing Browning’s own voice in its lines: “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made...”
| Library: Poems by Robert Browning
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