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Robert Browning

Victorian poet. Wrote poems where one person talks and gives themselves away.

Percy Bysshe ShelleyWilliam BlakeWilliam WordsworthRobert BrowningAlfred, Lord TennysonWilfred OwenSeamus HeaneyTed HughesSimon ArmitageJane WeirCarol Ann DuffyImtiaz DharkerCarol RumensJohn AgardBeatrice Garland

The quotes

3 quotes by or about Robert Browning, in the order they happen.

I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together

Browning · My Last Duchess · power of humans · conflict

The Duke had his wife killed because she smiled at everyone. He says it calmly, in passing.

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive

Browning · My Last Duchess · power of humans

He shows off her portrait like a possession. As if she were alive. She is not.

I choose Never to stoop

Browning · My Last Duchess · power of humans

He would not lower himself to tell her what annoyed him. So he had her removed.

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