Porphyria's Lover (Unabridged): A Psychological Poem from one of the most important Victorian poets and playwrights, regarded as a sage and philosophe by Robert Browning

Porphyria's Lover (Unabridged): A Psychological Poem from one of the most important Victorian poets and playwrights, regarded as a sage and philosophe

Robert Browning

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"Porphyria's Lover" is Browning's first ever short dramatic monologue, and also the first of his poems to examine abnormal psychology. In the poem, a man strangles his lover - Porphyria - with her hair. Porphyria's lover then talks of the corpse's...

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