Fra Lippo Lippi caught by the night watch, Andrea del Sarto brooding over his faithless wife, the dying bishop ordering his tomb, and the Arab physician Karshish writing home about Lazarus all speak in their own voices in this group of dramatic monologues. The Camberwell edition follows Browning’s 1868 rearrangement, with introduction and notes by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke.
The heart of Browning’s achievement, the poems that made the dramatic monologue a major modern form. Download the free EPUB.