The Victorian poet Robert Browning (1812 –1889) is perhaps most admired today for his inspired development of the dramatic monologue. In this compelling poetic form, he sought to reveal his subjects' true natures in their own, often self-justifying, accounts of their lives and affairs. A number of these vivid monologues, including the famed "Fra Lippo Lippi," "How It Strikes a Contemporary," and "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church," are included in this selection of forty-two poems.
Here, too, are the famous "My Last Duchess," dramatic lyrics such as "Memorabilia" and "Love among the Ruins," and well-known shorter works: "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad," "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," and more. Together these poems reveal Browning's rare gifts as both a lyric poet and a monologist of rare psychological insight and dramatic flair.

Features 42 works, among them a number of the Victorian master's famed dramatic monologues, plus such memorable masterworks as "Love among the Ruins," "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and "Home Thoughts from Abroad." Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

PIPPA PASSES: A DRAMA
"Song ["The year's at the spring"]"
DRAMATIC LYRICS
My Last Duchess
Incident of the French Camp
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
Johannes Agricola in Meditation
Porphyria's Lover
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
DRAMATIC ROMANCES AND LYRICS
"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"
The Lost Leader
Home-Thoughts from Abroad
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
Earth's Immortalities
Meeting at Night
Parting at Morning
MEN AND WOMEN
Love Among the Ruins
A Lover's Quarrel
Up at a Villa-Down in the City
Fra Lippo Lippi
A Toccata of Galuppi's
"An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician"
A Serenade at the Villa
My Star
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
Love in a Life
How It Strikes a Contemporary
The Last Ride Together
The Patriot
Memorabilia
Andrea del Sarto
In a Year
Two in the Campagna
A Grammarian's Funeral
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
"Dîs Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos Jours"
"Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island "
Confessions
Youth and Art
Apparent Failure
PACCHIAROTTO AND HOW HE WORKED IN DISTEMPER: WITH OTHER POEMS
House
JOCOSERIA
Wanting Is-What?
Never the Time and the Place
UNCOLLECTED POEMS
The Names
Why I Am a Liberal
Alphabetical List of Titles
Alphabetical List of First Lines