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'''Robert Browning''' (1812–1889) was an English [[poet]] and [[playwright]] who found his true voice in the writing of dramatic monologues, though he is also remembered for certain lyrics, and for the fable ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin''. His use of the dramatic monologue reached its culmination in his masterpiece, ''The [[Ring and the Book]]'', a poem of twelve books and over 21,000 lines (twice the length of [[Paradise Lost]]), in which nine different characters recount or review the same events from their own perspectives. | |||
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Robert Browning (1812–1889) was an English poet and playwright who found his true voice in the writing of dramatic monologues, though he is also remembered for certain lyrics, and for the fable The Pied Piper of Hamelin. His use of the dramatic monologue reached its culmination in his masterpiece, The Ring and the Book, a poem of twelve books and over 21,000 lines (twice the length of Paradise Lost), in which nine different characters recount or review the same events from their own perspectives.