The Works and Influence of Robert Browning, With Special Contributes to "My Last Duchess" [1847] Browning heavily influenced poetic society for all time. He invented the dramatic monologue, a poem with a speaker and an implied auditor where there is a gap between what the speaker say...

I am a young woman interested in love. I see that it can be both cruel and life-saving. In other words, love can save one from insanity or take one to the grave. So, love for me is a very intriguing subject. When I first read the poems, I thought of Elizabeth Browning secluded in her room, smil...

Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts, to Emily Narcross Dickinson and Edward Dickinson. The poet was the second of three children, being a year younger than her brother, William Austin, and two years older than her sister, Lavinia. ...