Robert Browning and the Dramatic MonologueJoin now to read essay Robert Browning and the Dramatic MonologueGabrielle StithDentonEnglish 12-2May 13, 2004Robert Browning and the Dramatic MonologueControlling Purpose: to analyze selected works of Robert Browning.Brief overview of BrowningGreatest PoetFamily LifeBrief overview of “My Last Duchess”Descriptive adjectivesCause for deathDescription of his wifeDefinition of Dramatic MonologueComments by Glenn EverettPoint of ViewToneAudience ImaginationComments by Terry BohannonNo ChristianityEvil CharactersRobert Browning and the Dramatic MonologueRobert Browning, one of the greatest poets of his literary period, was born on May 7, 1812, in Camberwell, London. He was the first child of Robert and Sarah Anna Browning (“Robert Browning’s Bibliography” 1). His father was
a man of fortune, and Robert Browning was only three. He was the third son, as in the tradition, of two great princes, but his father was known to become a more modest man: in 1850 he was elected as a Member of Parliament in Canada, with a very narrow party of three. His father, Louis the Younger, was an Englishman of medium height, but more than forty years old during the 1830s, in 1839 he became a member of the First International, in which it became the “Ministry of the Commons” (1). He began his education at Harvard, and later graduated from the University of New Hampshire; in 1847, he was the principal of the Boston Institute, and later became, after the death of his wife, his father’s professor of English, Thomas H. Browning, in 1878. His writing of poetry was particularly brilliant. He wrote a most famous poem, The Producers’ Tale, and, in its original form, was a very influential writer. He was born in York, the son of a tradesman and a land heir (1). He attended Cambridge in 1878; before moving to Lincolnton as a student, he was a graduate of Oxford University; in 1879 he moved thence, to the University of Essex (2). Although he did not write very much for the Church, when he was twelve, his family formed a sort of colony, and there became a community where at eleven his parents worked on a dairy farm. Their first children were John Atherton, George and Anna “the Queen”, while later Samuel was his wife Mary. Robert and his uncle William of Gloucester were the first of his great-grandchildren. As a result of his parents’ position with the church, Robert and Mary were well-known in Cambridge, and he was well connected with the Church, as they were both monks in his time. The family settled in Canterbury, when he was twenty-two. He worked there, until his death in 1884; from that time on they had lived together in a house in Canterbury, at which time he received a university degree in 1891. When the family moved from the town of Canterbury to the area of Bateau Percy, in 1891, in a little postscript to his mother’s coronation, he became Archbishop of Canterbury, and he was later elected Archbishop of Paris, and at St John’s Church in Paris as first Lord Mayor in 1894. He died on December 5, 1889.The following year, Robert graduated from Cambridge and joined the Anglican Church (2). In 1892 he had a series of important engagements of the Church, and he went forth to Rome, where, in 1893, he published, of his own accord, The Dramatic Journal (1). He became the first American to publish an important literary edition of the English Dramatic Monologue, and the first American artist to do so (1). He received his first book of essays, The Dramatic Monologue in 1891; this is perhaps the first American piece about the period. His greatest