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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.
Many of the original titles given by Browning to the poems in this collection, as with its predecessor Dramatic Lyrics, are different from the ones he later gave them in various editions of his collected works.
Browning wrote the collection in London, where he had returned with his son after the death of his wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning.It was his first publication after a nine-year hiatus.
"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.
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Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, or Turf and Towers (1873) is a poem in blank verse by Robert Browning.It tells a story of sexual intrigue, religious obsession and violent death in contemporary Paris and Normandy, closely based on the true story of the death, supposedly by suicide, of the jewellery heir Antoine Mellerio.
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: