文档介绍：Robert Browning
Together with Tennyson, they are regarded as the best two
poets in Victorian Time
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family ---the son of a clerk in the Bank of England
education -- never attended school
was privately educated by his parents,
and take interest in art and literature
While still a child
marriage ---the poet Elizabeth Barrett in 1846
lived in Italy until his wife died in 1861
He spent his rest of life in London
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e phrases of his life his poetic
development
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(a He began his literary career as an ardent
follower of Shelly
His first poem Pauline(《波琳》1833)was
attacked by John Mill as"morbid state of
self-worship(“有强烈的病态的自我意识
2口可些望÷观斗“:”!M2z
Then he managed to avoid the subjecti
manner of Shelly and created his own objective
way of writing
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Turning to
drama poems
Paracelsus
Strafford
Sordello
(1835)
(1837)
(1840)
-A these drama was regarded-as failure
Paracelsus(1835), whose hero was a Renaissance
alchemist(炼金术士) Though Browning later called the
poem "a failure, "it received favorable reviews and
brought about important friendships with the authors
William Wordsworth
His first play, Strafford(1837), closed atter only five
performances
The publication of Sordetto in 1840 was a disaster which
dealt Brownings growing reputation a severe blow
TThe experiences are valuable in that they helped him
develop“ dramatic monologue"” to maturity
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2 Development of the Dramatic Monoloque
After the disappointing reception of strafford and Sordello brownin
turned to the dramatic monologue. He experimented with and
perfected this form in the long poem Pippa Passes(1841)and two
collections of shorter poems, Dramatic Lyrics(1842)and Dramatic
Romances and Lyrics(1845)
Usually written in blank verse, the dramatic monologue is the
speech of a single character in a moment of some dramatic
significance. tm the course of his monologue, the speaker-Yeveats
what this situation is, as well as t