This work begins with a reference to a painting supposedly by Fra Pandolf, which shows the former wife of the narrator, the Duke of Ferrara.
This work might be based on words spoken to Nikolaus Madruz, and its narrator says that he chooses never to stoop. This poem ends with a reference to a bronze statue by Claus of Innsbruck which shows Neptune taming a sea horse. It discusses the joy brought by a white mule or a bough of cherries, which upsets the narrator when those gifts are put on a par with a nine-hundred-years-old name. This work begins with a reference to a painting supposedly by Fra Pandolf, which shows the former wife of the narrator, the Duke of Ferrara. Identify this poem by Robert Brown- ing.
This work might be based on words spoken to Nikolaus Madruz, and its narrator says that he chooses never to stoop.
“{My} Last {Duchess}”