Dramatic Romances

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Dramatic Romances by Robert Browning gathers poetic works with an introduction and notes credited to Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. The contents list The Patriot, My Last Duchess, Count Gismond, The Boy and the Angel, Mesmerism and The Glove among the pieces.

One speaker recalls roses and myrtle along his path a year earlier, with house roofs that seemed to heave and sway. A pipe sounds fewer than three shrill notes before rats tumble out of the houses amid a sound growing from muttering to grumbling and rumbling. The speaker in The Patriot describes walking in rain with a rope cutting both wrists behind him, while stones are thrown at him for his year's misdeeds.

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Robert Browning

Robert Browning (1812-1889) was an English poet who turned the dramatic monologue into his signature form, letting flawed speakers convict themselves in their own words. Long overshadowed by his wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, he was recognized late in life as one of the major Victorians.