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Podcast: The Daily Poem
Episode: Robert Browning's "Development"
Description: Although the early part of Robert Browningâs creative life was spent in comparative obscurity, he has come to be regarded as one of the most important English poets of the Victorian period. His dramatic monologues and the psycho-historical epic The Ring and the Book (1868-1869), a novel in verse, have established him as a major figure in the history of English poetry. His claim to attention as a childrenâs writer is more modest, resting as it does almost entirely on one poem, âThe Pied Piper of Hamelin,â included almost as an afterthought in Bells and Pomegranites. No. III.âDramat...