"Porphyria's Lover"

Robert Browning

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• Text of the poem
• "Porphyria's Lover" — A Case study in what counts as evidence and where the ambiguities in dramatic monologues arise
• "Porphyria's Lover" — Vastly Misunderstood Poetry
• "Porphyria's Lover" — A Response to J. T. Best
• Representations of the Female Voice in Victorian Poetry
• Female Silence and Male Self-Consciousness in Browning's Poetry
• Power and Helplessness in Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover"

Related Materials

• Scott Mccloud's line-by-line visual interpretation

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29 January 2009