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‘Porphyria’s Lover’

Paul Cheetham explores the psychological dimensions of Browning’s dramatic monologue

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AQA (A) and (B) Literature

As a young man Robert Browning (1812–89) was fascinated by what he called ‘unusual states of mind’. As a means of exploring these, he developed the literary form known as ‘the dramatic monologue’, which the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms defines as follows:

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