Question

Which poetic genre did Browning popularize?

• A. Dramatic monologue
• B. Epistolary poem
• C. Epic poem
• D. Pastoral poetry

Answer 1

Answer:

A. Dramatic monologue

• Robert Browning is considered to be the perfecter of the dramatic monologue, which had its heyday in the Victorian Period.

• Other Victorian poets to produce one or more dramatic monologues include Alfred Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, and Algernon Charles Swinburne.

• A famous example of Dramatic monologue is Browning’s “My Last Duchess.” 

• Other of Browning’s brief dramatic monologues include “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister,” “The Laboratory” and “Porphyria’s Lover.”