Love in Robert Browning's Poems

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  • Chunhong Yang

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https://doi.org/10.14738/assrj.512.5143

Abstract

Robert Browning is considered as an optimist, but in his love poems run a torrent of devastation and destruction. Both in his poetry of courtship and poetry of marriage, there are damaging and harrowing love experiences. “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess” are typical examples. Both dramatic personae, motivated by their extreme desire of dominance, murder their beloved ones. Therefore, in Browning’s world of love, the relationships are blighted by loss and disillusion.

References

Arnold, Matthew. “Dover Beach”. in The Portable Matthew Arnold. Ed. Lionel Trilling. New York: Penguin, 1980.

Bowman, Sylvia E., ed. Robert Browning: Twayne’s English Authors Series. Boston: Twayne, 1974.

DeVane, William C. A Browning Handbook. New York: F. S. Crofts, 1935.

Richards, Bernard. English Poetry of the Victorian Period 1830-1890. London: Longman, 1988.

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2019-01-02

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Yang, C. (2019). Love in Robert Browning’s Poems. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 5(12). https://doi.org/10.14738/assrj.512.5143

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Vol. 5 No. 12 (2018): Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal

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