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The short story "My Last Girlfriend" by Robert Barnard is a take-off on "My Last Duchess" with a new twist. [9] Science fiction author Eric Flint uses portions of "My Last Duchess" in his book 1634: The Galileo Affair (2004). [10] Canadian author Margaret Atwood's short story "My Last Duchess" appears in her short story anthology Moral Disorder ...
Dramatic Lyrics is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1842 as the third volume in a series of self-published books entitled Bells and Pomegranates. It is most famous as the first appearance of Browning's poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin, but also contains several of the poet's other best-known pieces, including ...
Porphyria's Lover. " Porphyria's Lover " is a poem by Robert Browning which was first published as "Porphyria" in the January 1836 issue of Monthly Repository. [1] Browning later republished it in Dramatic Lyrics (1842) paired with "Johannes Agricola in Meditation" under the title "Madhouse Cells". The poem did not receive its definitive title ...
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1845 in London, as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books entitled Bells and Pomegranates .
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax. His early long poems Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835) were ...
Count Gismond. " Count Gismond " is a poem by Robert Browning, frequently anthologised as an example of the dramatic monologue. It first appeared in 1842 in Browning's Dramatic Lyrics, where it was known simply as "France". [1] The poem is written in 21 verses. "Count Gismond: Aix in Provence" may, on one reading, be seen as a story of the ...
Dramatic monologue is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character. M.H. Abrams notes the following three features of the dramatic monologue as it applies to poetry: The single person, who is patently not the poet, utters the speech that makes up the whole of the poem, in a specific situation at a critical moment ...
Lucrezia de' Medici (14 February 1545 – 21 April 1561) was a member of the House of Medici and by marriage Duchess consort of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio from 1558 to 1561. Married to the intended husband of her elder sister Maria, who died young, her marriage was short and unhappy. The Duchess died of pulmonary tuberculosis, but almost ...