ROBERT BROWNING ENGLAND’S MOST OBSCURE POET

Saxon origin, father English, grandmother Scottish, grandfather German of Jewish origin.
A wealthy man who knew from the beginning that he was destined for poetry. For every one of his poems, today, there are two or more explanations.
He writes his major work after the death of his wife Elizabeth: “The Ring and the Book.”
He was interested in contradictory and complex characters. Browning’s obscurity is not a verbal one. It is a psychological obscurity.
Once he was asked about the meaning of one of his poems, and he answered:” I wrote it long ago. When I wrote it, only G-d and I knew what it meant: now, only G-d knows.”
Another time he said: ” I have found this story of a criminal trial, a sordid story of adultery, the story of a murder, the story of lies and deceptions. And based on that story, which all of Italy talked about, and which all of Italy has forgotten, I will reveal to them the truth about the world,” and he wrote The Ring and the Book.