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Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" is a soliloquy written by Robert Browning, first published in his collection Dramatic Lyrics (1842). It is written in the voice of an unnamed Spanish monk . The poem consists of nine eight-line stanzas and is written in trochaic tetrameter .
Dramatic Lyrics is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1842 [1] as the third volume in a series of self-published books entitled Bells and Pomegranates.
"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" is a poem by Robert Browning published in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, 1845. [1] The poem, one of the volume's "dramatic romances", is a first-person narrative told, in breathless galloping meter, by one of three riders; the midnight errand is urgent—"the news which alone could save Aix from her fate"—although the nature of that good news ...
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister – A comic monologue in which a monk spews out venom against one of his colleagues, Brother Lawrence; in the process, he merely reveals his own depravity while showing what a good, pious man his "enemy" is. "Where the Wild Roses Grow" – A contemporary song sharing similar themes.
Since this book was originally self-published in a very small edition, these poems really only came to prominence in the later collections, and so the later titles are given here; see the bottom of the page for a list of the originals. "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" Pictor Ignotus; The Italian in England; The Englishman in Italy
The Ring and the Book, Fra Lippo Lippi, Caliban upon Setebos, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister and Porphyria's Lover, as well as the other poems in Men and Women are just a handful of Browning's monologues. Other Victorian poets also used the form.
Soliloquy (from Latin: "talking by oneself") is a device often used in drama. Soliloquy may also refer to: Soliloquy, a 2002 film by Jacques Zanetti, starring Diahnne Abbott and Drena De Niro; Soliloquy (McCoy Tyner album), a 1991 live album by McCoy Tyner; Soliloquy (Walter Bishop Jr. album) a 1977 solo album by Walter Bishop Jr.
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