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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.
The poem's opening lines are renowned for their evocation of patriotic nostalgia: [3] Oh, to be in England / Now that April’s there. Browning makes sentimental references to the flora of an English springtime, including brushwood, elm trees and pear tree blossom and to the sound of birdsong from chaffinches, whitethroats, swallows and thrushes.
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets.He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax.
Gold Hair: A Story of Pornic; The Worst of It; Dîs Aliter Visum; Too Late; Abt Vogler; Rabbi ben Ezra; A Death in the Desert; Caliban upon Setebos; Confessions; May and Death; Deaf and Dumb; Prospice; Eurydice to Orpheus; Youth and Art; A Face; A Likeness; Mr. Sludge, "The Medium" Apparent Failure; Epilogue
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"Count Gismond" is a poem by Robert Browning, frequently anthologised as an example of the dramatic monologue. It first appeared in 1842 in Browning's Dramatic Lyrics, where it was known simply as "France". [1] The poem is written in 21 verses. "Count Gismond: Aix in Provence" may, on one reading, be seen as a story of the vindication of innocence.
Dramatic monologue is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character.M.H. Abrams notes the following three features of the dramatic monologue as it applies to poetry: