{"product_id":"2940014862219","title":"A Day with Browning (Illustrated)","description":"An excerpt:\u003cbr\u003eFROM his bed-room window in the Palazzo Giustiniani Recanati, every morning in 1885, Robert Browning watched the sunrise. \"My window commands a perfect view,\" he wrote, \"the still, grey lagoon, the few seagulls flying, the islet of San Giorgio in deep shadow, and the clouds in a long purple rack, from behind which a sort of spirit of rose burns up, till presently all the rims are on fire with gold.... So my day begins.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Palazzo, in which a suite of rooms had been placed by Mrs. Bronson at the disposal of the poet and his sister, was a place of historical association and fifteenth-century traditions. And no more appropriate abiding-place than Venice could have been selected for a man of Browning's temperament. The Venetian colouring was a perpetual feast to his eye: its mediæval glories were a source of continual inspiration. And if much of his heart still remained with his native land, so that the London daily papers were a necessity of existence, and a certain sense of exile occasionally obtruded itself, we must needs be grateful to that fact for its result in certain immortal lines:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOh, to be in England\u003cbr\u003eNow that April's there,\u003cbr\u003eAnd whoever wakes in England\u003cbr\u003eSees, some morning, unaware,\u003cbr\u003eThat the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf\u003cbr\u003eRound the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,\u003cbr\u003eWhile the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough\u003cbr\u003eIn England--now!","brand":"Unforgotten Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177274851568,"sku":"2940014862219","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014862219_p0.jpg?v=1763616332","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014862219","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}