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As a further point of interest, Robert Browning's courtship and marriage to Elizabeth Barrett remains one of the most revisited romantic literary tales. Note especially that Browning was born in 1812, within a few months of Charles Dickens.For more important dates in Browning's life, see the Chronology available at Victorian Web.
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Upon his death in 1889, he was buried in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey. In 1861, Browning and his son returned to London, where the poet continued to write and achieve increasing recognition, culminating with the acclaimed The Ring and the Book in 1868. While in Italy, Robert wrote many of his most well-known poems, though at the time they were not critically acclaimed. Against the wishes of Elizabeth's possessive father, they eloped to Italy in 1846 and lived there with their son until Elizabeth's death in 1861. For many years, Robert Browning's popularity was shadowed by that of his wife, Elizabeth Barrett, with whom he had corresponded before they met in person in 1845. Browning developed his literary acumen in part through scouring the several thousand tomes in his father's library his education, mostly taken at home, provided him with an eclectic history from which many of his poems' subjects are drawn. Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess," first published in Dramatic Lyrics in 1842, is one of the best known of his many dramatic monologues.Unfortunately, while useful, the commentary includes language that will likely be blocked by many school firewalls, so this version is only recommended for instructors. Representative Poetry Online, via EDSITEment-reviewed Internet Public Library, provides an online version of the poem including line numbers, footnotes, and commentary by Ian Lancashire.Electronic copies of the poem, "My Last Duchess," are available at the following EDSITEment-reviewed websites:.Note the definition of dramatic monologue, Browning's role in the history of the form, and his subsequent influence on modernists such as T.S. Review the definition and description of "dramatic monologue" at the EDSITEment-reviewed The Academy of American Poets.Note the three requirements of a Browning dramatic monologue, as detailed by Glenn Everett. Read Dramatic Monologue: An Introduction at the EDSITEment-reviewed Victorian Web.Students can access the poem and some of the activity materials via the EDSITEment LaunchPad.Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text. Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.Ĭ.6.
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Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.Ĭ.5. Analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.Ĭ.4. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development summarize the key supporting details and ideas.Ĭ.3. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.Ĭ.2.
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