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  1. Although the early part of Robert Browning’s creative life was spent in comparative obscurity, he has come to be regarded as one of the most important English poets of the Victorian period. His dramatic monologues and the psycho-historical epic The Ring and the Book (1868-1869), a novel...

  2. Load audio player. Robert Browning. 1812 –. 1889. That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call. That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf's hands. Worked busily a day, and there she stands.

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  4. My favour at her breast, The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool. Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule. She rode with round the terrace—all and each. Would draw from her alike the approving speech, Or blush, at least. She thanked men—good! but thanked.

  5. Like the Romantics, though, Browning’s poetry worked toward a greater understanding of human nature. The speakers of many of his poems stretch stereotypes and expectations.

  6. Robert Browning (1812-1899) was a master of the dramatic monologue, and “My Last Duchess” is one of his most famous and most anthologized poem. The poem first appeared in 1842 in Dramatic...

  7. A summary of Themes in Robert Browning's My Last Duchess.

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