Favorite Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
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.
Country | USA |
Brand | Dover Publications |
Manufacturer | Dover Publications |
Binding | Paperback |
ItemPartNumber | 9780486277837 |
ReleaseDate | 1993-12-23 |
UnitCount | 1 |
Format | Unabridged |
UPCs | 800759277834 |
EANs | 9780486277837 |