My Last Duchess and Other Poems

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.