Editing Robert Browning (section)

===Political views===
Browning identified as a [[liberalism|Liberal]], supported the emancipation of women, and opposed slavery, expressing sympathy for the North in the [[American Civil War]].<ref name="Robert Browning">{{Cite book |last1=Woolford |first1=John |last2=Karlin |first2=Daniel |title=Robert Browning |date=2014 |publisher=Routledge |page=157}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Dowden |first1=Edward |title=Robert Browning |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924013444744 |date=1904 |publisher=J.M. Dent & Company |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924013444744/page/n136 109]–111}}</ref> Later in life, he even championed animal rights in several poems attacking vivisection. He was also a stalwart opponent of anti-Semitism, leading to speculation that Browning himself was Jewish.<ref name="Robert Browning"/> In 1877 he wrote a poem explaining "Why I am a Liberal" in which he declared: "Who then dares hold – emancipated thus / His fellow shall continue bound? Not I."<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Woolford |first1=John |last2=Karlin |first2=Daniel |title=Robert Browning |date=2014 |publisher=Routledge |page=158}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Dowden |first1=Edward |title=Robert Browning |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924013444744 |date=1904 |publisher=J.M. Dent & Company |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924013444744/page/n137 110]}}</ref> Critical attention to Browning's politics has, in general, been sparse. [[Isobel Armstrong]]'s writing on dramatic monologues, as well as more recent work on the influence of ''[[Coriolanus]]'' on Browning's politics, has attempted to situate the poet's political sensibility at the centre of his practice.<ref>Isobel Armstrong, ''[https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315775883/victorian-poetry-isobel-armstrong Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics]'' (London and New York: Routledge, 1993); Joseph Hankinson, '[https://doi.org/10.1093/escrit/cgac014 King Multitude: Browning and ''Coriolanus'']', ''Essays in Criticism'', vol. 72, iss. 2 (2022), pp. 148–169.</ref>