Additional Resources for Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning

Porphyria's Lover Further Reading

Curry, S. S., Browning and the Dramatic Monologue, Haskell House, 1965.

Curry claims that Browning invented a new language
with the dramatic monologue, which might account
for why critics were slow to embrace his work.

Dupras, Joseph, "Dispatching 'Porphyria's Lover,'" in Conversations: Contemporary Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature, edited by Charles Moran and Elizabeth F. Penfield, National Council of Teachers of English, 1990, pp. 179-86.

Dupras expresses the difficulties he encountered in
teaching "Porphyria's Lover" to his students and explains
that when a teacher forcefully determines a
poem's "meaning" to other readers, the poem dies.

Pearsall, Robert Brainard, Robert Browning, Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1974.

Pearsall provides a straightforward account of
Browning's career as a whole and attempts to say
something useful or interesting about every book and
every poem that Browning published.

Sutton, Max Keith, "Language as Defense in...
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