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may 07 Learn More Robert Browning Born


If you're one of the thousands of fans of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, you have preeminent Victorian poet Robert Browning—who was born on this day in 1812—to thank. King nicked both the enigmatic gunslinger and the dark tower itself from Browning's 1855 poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came."

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