Two Hundred

Today is the two hundredth anniversary of Robert Browning's birth.  Almost wholly overshadowed this year by Dickens, who was three months older than him, it is a great shame that more isn't being made of the occasion.

Author of long, complicated poems, dramatic monologues, love lyrics and other pieces.  Born in Camberwell, schooled for a while in Peckham.  He committed himself to poetry and lived with his parents in New Cross (see his plaque on the side of Haberdashers' Aske's School in Jerningham Rd). 

He's one of those poets who've written lines you've heard before many times, but you didn't know they came from him.  

We like him, here at the Trees.  And he is a local lad.

So this is the start of our Browning week