In one poem by this author, the speaker plans to use a "scrofulous French novel on grey paper with blunt type" to damn the soul of a man he despises. This author of "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" wrote of a woman who "put my arm about her waist, and made her smooth whit
In one poem by this author, the speaker plans to use a "scrofulous French novel on grey paper with blunt type" to damn the soul of a man he despises. This author of "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" wrote of a woman who "put my arm about her waist, and made her smooth white shoulder bare" in another poem. Besides that poem in which the speaker strangles a woman with her hair, this man wrote a work in which the speaker gave the gift of a "nine-hundred-years-old name." In that work by this man, the title character had a heart "too soon made glad." For 10 points, name this poet of the dramatic monologues "Porphyria's Lover" and "My Last Duchess."
In one poem by this author, the speaker plans to use a "scrofulous French novel on grey paper with blunt type" to damn the soul of a man he despises.
Robert Browning