Robert Browning was a poet.
Men and Women is a collection of fifty-one poems in two volumes by Robert Browning , first published in 1855 . Robert Browning . When Browning died in 1889 , he was regarded as a sage and philosopher-poet who through his writing had made contributions to Victorian social and political discourse -- as in the poem Caliban upon Setebos , which some critics have seen as a comment on the theory of evolution , which had recently been put forward by Darwin and others .