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Robert Browning (1812-1889) Born: May 7, 1812,Camberwell Education : Mainly self-taught Grand tour : Travelled in Europe Marriage：（1846）Elizabeth Browning 1861：Returned to London 1878：Died in Venice Buried in Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey Work list Pauline《波琳》 (1833) Paracelsus《巴拉塞尔士》 (1835) Sordello(1840) 《索尔德罗 》 Bells and Pomegranates 《戏剧抒情诗》 (1842) My Last Duchess《我的前公爵夫人》 The Bishop Orders His Tomb Dramatic Lyrics and Romances 戏剧传奇与抒情诗 (1845) Christmas Eve and Easter-Day (1850) Men and Women《男男女女》 (1855) Fra Lippo Lippe Andrea del Sarto 安德里亚.德尔.沙托 Dramatic Persona《剧中人物》 (1864) The Ring and the Book《指环与书 》(1868-1869) Poetic style 1.Frequent use of “Dramatic monologue” 2.Not easy to understand(rhythms). 3. Syntax（语法）,Allusions,Implications obscurity In general: alert, thoughtful and enlightened. very different from that of any other Victorian poets. belongs to the 20th-century Dramatic monologue （戏剧独白） Dramatic monologue is a kind of poem in which a single fictional or historical character other than the poet speaks to a silent “audience” of one or more persons. Browning’ s dramatic monologues: Serve as masks that help to reveal the various facades of his characters as well as the poet’s complex ideas. His monologues often in length,effectively describe “souls in action” My Last Duchess My Last Duchess Thats my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolfs hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Willt please you sit and look at her? I said Frà Pandolf by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you, but I) And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst, How such a glance came there; so, not the first Are you to tur