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This course meets 3 times.
In no other literary era has the dramatic monologue flourished as it did during the Victorian period. Two Victorian poets, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning, were (and still are, most would agree) the masters of the form. We’ll read and discuss a pair of dramatic monologues from each of these two poets: Tennyson’s “Ulysses” and “Tithonus,” and Browning’s “My Last Duchess” and “Fra Lippo Lippi.” If time permits, we may get to “the Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed’s” and/or “Andrea del Sarto,” both by Browning.
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