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Home Thoughts, from Abroad is a poem by Robert Browning. It was written in 1845 while Browning was on a visit to northern Italy, and was first published in his Dramatic Romances and Lyrics.[1]

In 1995, Home Thoughts was voted 46th in a BBC poll to find the United Kingdom's favourite poems.[2]

References

  1. ^ Robert Browning's "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad": "Oh to be in England:" Seminar Paper, GRIN Verlag 2008 ISBN 978-3-640-33427-8
  2. ^ Griff Rhys Jones, The Nation's Favourite Poems, BBC Worldwide Ltd 1996 ISBN 978-0-563-38782-4 (p.71)

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