er persuasion, Browning began to realize that Shelley's poetry had led him to a life of self-
             absorption. Yet, "Robert took a skeptical attitude on the spiritual rappings, spurred on perhaps by his wife's
             immediate will to believe"(Markus,1995, p.219). Eventually, though, Robert Browning made the decision
             to return to his Christian faith, perhaps due to his respect for his deeply religious mother or to the
             persuasion by his spiritually inclined wife.
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