FTP, name this poet known for dramatic monologues like "Fra Lippo Lippi" and "My Last Duchess."
A meeting with actor William Macready convinced this writer to try his hand at stage writing, but his two published plays Strafford and A Blot in the Scutcheon were not as successful as early poems like "Count Gismond-Aix in Provence." A low point in his career was his Italian period, when poems like "Soliloquy in a Spanish Cloister" and "Porphyria's Lover" sold badly, but his poetry is optimistic even after the 1861 death of his wife, when he included poems like "Rabbi Ben Ezra" and "Caliban upon Setebos" in his collection Dramatis Personae. FTP, name this poet known for dramatic monologues like "Fra Lippo Lippi" and "My Last Duchess."
A meeting with actor William Macready convinced this writer to try his hand at stage writing, but his two published plays Strafford and A Blot in the Scutcheon were not as successful as early poems like "Count Gismond-Aix in Provence."
Robert Browning