Robert Browning — Genre, Mode, and Style

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• The Long Poetic Narrative
• The Dramatic Monologue
  • An Introduction
  • Three Defining Characteristics of Browning's Dramatic Monologues
  • Victorian Reactions to Browning's Dramatic Monologues
  • The Figure of the Listener
  • The Silent Listener
  • Select Bibliography
  • "Porphyria's Lover" — A Case study in what counts as evidence and where the ambiguities in dramatic monologues arise
  • What made Browning's poetry so difficult for Victorians readers to understand?
  • Browning writes dramatic rather than introspective poetry
• Lyric Poetry
  • Chesteron in Browning and Swinburne's styles
• Poetic Drama
• Fantasy
  • A Brief Discussion of Victorian Fantasy — Setting and Character

Last modified 17 July 2012