The Victorian poet Robert Browning (1812 –1889) is perhaps most admired today for his inspired development of the dramatic monologue. In this compelling poetic form, he sought to reveal his subjects' true natures in their own, often self-justifying, accounts of their lives and affairs. A number of these vivid monologues, including the famed "Fra Lippo Lippi," "How It Strikes a Contemporary," and "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church," are included in this selection of forty-two poems. Here, too, are the famous "My Last Duchess," dramatic lyrics such as "Memorabilia" and "... Read More
The Victorian poet Robert Browning (1812 –1889) is perhaps most admired today for his inspired development of the dramatic monologue. In this compelling poetic form, he sought to reveal his subjects' true natures in their own, often self-justifying, accounts of their lives and affairs. A number of these vivid monologues, including the famed "Fra Lippo Lippi," "How It Strikes a Contemporary," and "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church," are included in this selection of forty-two poems. Here, too, are the famous "My Last Duchess," dramatic lyrics such as "Memorabilia" and "... Read More
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The Victorian poet Robert Browning (1812 –1889) is perhaps most admired today for his inspired development of the dramatic monologue. In this compelling poetic form, he sought to reveal his subjects' true natures in their own, often self-justifying, accounts of their lives and affairs. A number of these vivid monologues, including the famed "Fra Lippo Lippi," "How It Strikes a Contemporary," and "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church," are included in this selection of forty-two poems. Here, too, are the famous "My Last Duchess," dramatic lyrics such as "Memorabilia" and "Love among the Ruins," and well-known shorter works: "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad," "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," and more. Together these poems reveal Browning's rare gifts as both a lyric poet and a monologist of rare psychological insight and dramatic flair.
Original selection from Poems of Robert Browning, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1896.
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Price: $3.50
Pages: 128
Publisher: Dover Publications
Imprint: Dover Publications
Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
Publication Date: 6th February 2012
Trim Size: 5.18 x 8.25 in
ISBN: 9780486114255
Format: eBook
Age: 14-99
BISACs: POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Table of Contents
PIPPA PASSES: A DRAMA "Song ["The year's at the spring"]" DRAMATIC LYRICS My Last Duchess Incident of the French Camp Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Johannes Agricola in Meditation Porphyria's Lover The Pied Piper of Hamelin DRAMATIC ROMANCES AND LYRICS "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" The Lost Leader Home-Thoughts from Abroad The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church Earth's Immortalities Meeting at Night Parting at Morning MEN AND WOMEN Love Among the Ruins A Lover's Quarrel Up at a Villa-Down in the City Fra Lippo Lippi A Toccata of Galuppi's "An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician" A Serenade at the Villa My Star "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" Love in a Life How It Strikes a Contemporary The Last Ride Together The Patriot Memorabilia Andrea del Sarto In a Year Two in the Campagna A Grammarian's Funeral DRAMATIS PERSONAE "Dîs Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos Jours" "Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island " Confessions Youth and Art Apparent Failure PACCHIAROTTO AND HOW HE WORKED IN DISTEMPER: WITH OTHER POEMS House JOCOSERIA Wanting Is-What? Never the Time and the Place UNCOLLECTED POEMS The Names Why I Am a Liberal Alphabetical List of Titles Alphabetical List of First Lines
The Victorian poet Robert Browning (1812 –1889) is perhaps most admired today for his inspired development of the dramatic monologue. In this compelling poetic form, he sought to reveal his subjects' true natures in their own, often self-justifying, accounts of their lives and affairs. A number of these vivid monologues, including the famed "Fra Lippo Lippi," "How It Strikes a Contemporary," and "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church," are included in this selection of forty-two poems. Here, too, are the famous "My Last Duchess," dramatic lyrics such as "Memorabilia" and "Love among the Ruins," and well-known shorter works: "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad," "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," and more. Together these poems reveal Browning's rare gifts as both a lyric poet and a monologist of rare psychological insight and dramatic flair.
Original selection from Poems of Robert Browning, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1896.
Price: $3.50
Pages: 128
Publisher: Dover Publications
Imprint: Dover Publications
Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
Publication Date: 6th February 2012
Trim Size: 5.18 x 8.25 in
ISBN: 9780486114255
Format: eBook
Age: 14-99
BISACs: POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
PIPPA PASSES: A DRAMA "Song ["The year's at the spring"]" DRAMATIC LYRICS My Last Duchess Incident of the French Camp Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Johannes Agricola in Meditation Porphyria's Lover The Pied Piper of Hamelin DRAMATIC ROMANCES AND LYRICS "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" The Lost Leader Home-Thoughts from Abroad The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church Earth's Immortalities Meeting at Night Parting at Morning MEN AND WOMEN Love Among the Ruins A Lover's Quarrel Up at a Villa-Down in the City Fra Lippo Lippi A Toccata of Galuppi's "An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician" A Serenade at the Villa My Star "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" Love in a Life How It Strikes a Contemporary The Last Ride Together The Patriot Memorabilia Andrea del Sarto In a Year Two in the Campagna A Grammarian's Funeral DRAMATIS PERSONAE "Dîs Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos Jours" "Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island " Confessions Youth and Art Apparent Failure PACCHIAROTTO AND HOW HE WORKED IN DISTEMPER: WITH OTHER POEMS House JOCOSERIA Wanting Is-What? Never the Time and the Place UNCOLLECTED POEMS The Names Why I Am a Liberal Alphabetical List of Titles Alphabetical List of First Lines
