文档介绍：RobertBrowningRobertBrowning (1812-1889)Englishpoet,’sEarlyLiteraryCareerAsayouth,begantowritepoetry,,,Browning',,however,’sWorksBrowning'sfirstimportantpoemwasthelengthyParacelsus,,thepoemdescribedthecareerofthesixteenth-centuryalchemist,ess,establishingBrowningasafamiliarnamewiththereadingpublic,,'sDramaticLyricsand1845',thesetwocollections,esses,,ahistoricaltragedybasedonagroupofdocumentsBrowninghadfoundatanItalianbookseller',(1833)TheRingandtheBook(10versenarratives,1868)MyLastDuchess(adramaticmonologuethatexplorestheideaofpossessive/distortedlove)(1842)Porphyria‘sLover(apoemoflovelust,andmurder)(1836-42)Home-Thoughts,fromAbroad(1845)BellsandPomegranates(aseriesofhisworks,1841-46)MyLastDuchessLucreziadeMedici,DuchesstoAlphonseIIofFerraraSetting:',DukeofFerrara(acityinnortheastItaly),whosefirstwifediedsuspiciouslywithintwoyearsof