Robert Browning

Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 – December 12, 1889) was an English poet and playwright.

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The last two lines of Browning's poem "The Year's at the Spring" are used in the Japanese animation, Neon Genesis Evangelion.

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"God's in his heaven-

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All's right in the world!"

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These lines are also parodied in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World with the hypnopaedic slogan:

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"Ford's in his flivver, all's right with the world!"

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