The title of what poetic drama by Robert Browning was used to name a Kentucky town?
Pippa Passes in His heaven—All's right with the world!" The town of Pippa Passes, Kentucky, is formally named after the poem thanks to a grant from the Browning Society. In the Israeli playwright Nissim Aloni play "Napoleon – dead or alive!" (1970) there is a character named Pippa, who acts as the secretary of the VIP department in the afterworld. Aloni refers to Browning also in his play The American Princess. Pippa Passes Pippa Passes is a verse drama by Robert Browning. It was published in 1841 as the first volume of his "Bells and Pomegranates" series, in a low-priced two-column edition
Robert Browning Anthony Burgess wrote: "We all want to like Browning, but we find it very hard." Gerard Manley Hopkins and George Santayana were also critical. The latter expressed his views in the essay "The Poetry of Barbarism," which attacks Browning and Walt Whitman for what he regarded as their embrace of irrationality. In 1914 American modernist composer Charles Ives created the Robert Browning Overture, a dense and darkly dramatic piece with gloomy overtones reminiscent of the Second Viennese School. In 1930 the story of Browning and his wife was made into the play "The Barretts of Wimpole Street", by Rudolph Besier.