"My Last Duchess" is a poem by Robert Browning, frequently anthologised as an example of the dramatic monologue. It first appeared in 1842 in Browning's...
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English poet Robert Browning to create a dramatic monologue in verse "My Last Duchess" (1842). Born in Florence on 14 February 1545, Lucrezia was the fifth...
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According to Scenario magazine, Coppola had written an early script called My Last Duchess, loosely inspired by the Robert Browning poem of the same name. Coppola...
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Victoria which has sold to 146 countries. She has written four novels: My Last Duchess or The American Heiress, The Fortune Hunter, Victoria, and “Diva”;...
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particularly telling set of circumstances. In both "Porphyria's Lover" and "My Last Duchess", Browning uses this mode of exposition to describe a man who responds...
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Robert Browning (section Last years and death)
Roland to the Dark Tower Came, Fra Lippo Lippi, Andrea Del Sarto, and My Last Duchess. His most popular poems include Porphyria's Lover, How They Brought...
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Moral Disorder (section My Last Duchess)
studies with her boyfriend Bill. In particular, they analyze the poem My Last Duchess by Robert Browning. It is a monologue by the Duke of Ferrara that implies...
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Catherine Deshayes Monvoisin Giovanna Bonanno Angel Makers of Nagyrév My Last Duchess, a poem by Robert Browning Philip Wexler, Toxicology in the Middle...
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (née Spencer; /dʒɔːrˈdʒeɪnə/ jor-JAY-nə; 7 June 1757 – 30 March 1806), was an English aristocrat, socialite...
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When Alfonso's grandson Alfonso II d'Este—Robert Browning's duke of "My Last Duchess"—produced no male heir, the main d'Este line died out. A grandson of...
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Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: Марія Александровна, romanized: Mariya Aleksandrovna; 17 October [O.S. 5 October] 1853 – 24 October...
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William Shakespeare: Sonnet 130 - "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" Robert Browning: "My Last Duchess" Robert Browning: "The Laboratory" Alfred...
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Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova; Russian: Великая Княжна Татьяна Николаевна; 10 June [O.S. 29 May] 1897– 17 July...
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Robert Browning produced his most famous work in this form. While My Last Duchess is the most famous of his monologues, the form dominated his writing...
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contains several of the poet's other best-known pieces, including My Last Duchess, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, Porphyria's Lover, and Johannes...
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attributed to Agnolo Bronzino, and from reading Robert Browning's poem, "My Last Duchess", in which Lucrezia makes a brief, silent and unnamed appearance. The...
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hooking up with a 'conceptual poet'... "My Last Missis" (appeared Autumn 2015 in Areté): As a homage to "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning the wealthy protagonist...
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Bobolink Maud Bodkin The Brothers Karamazov Robert Browning, including "My Last Duchess" and Pippa Passes (inspired in a wood near Dulwich) Cedar, including...
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Deborah Vivien Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, DCVO (born Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford and latterly Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire; 31 March...
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treasure. Alfonso II is the duke upon whom Robert Browning based his poem My Last Duchess, and is a major character in the Maggie O'Farrell novel The Marriage...
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Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (born Lady Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott; 25 December 1901 – 29 October 2004) was a member of the British...
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Elizabeth Christiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (née Hervey; 13 May 1758 – 30 March 1824) was an English aristocrat and letter writer. She is best...
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effect, as Robert Browning does in the first line of "My Last Duchess": That's my last Duchess painted on the wall. The opening spondees, which throw...
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Princess Stéphanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (born Countess Stéphanie de Lannoy on 18 February 1984), is the wife of Hereditary Grand Duke...
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included The Man Who Would Be King, Oh Dad Poor Dad, Assault on a Queen, My Last Duchess and Where the Tiger Sleeps. However both Taylor and Burton dropped...
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Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. Anastasia was the younger sister of Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana...
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(Compare the more obvious use of this approach in Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess".) Culler himself views "Ulysses" as a dialectic in which the speaker...
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Katharine, Duchess of Kent (born Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley; 22 February 1933) is a member of the British royal family. She is married to Prince Edward...
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Sarah, Duchess of York (born Sarah Margaret Ferguson; 15 October 1959), also known by the nickname Fergie, is a British author, philanthropist, television...
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Queen Camilla (redirect from Camilla, Duchess of Rothesay)
ISBN 9780993354069. The Duchess of Cornwall (11 September 2014). "My brother's enduring love affair". The Times. HRH The Duchess of Cornwall; Penny Mountbatten;...
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