Robert Browning 罗伯特 勃朗宁简介

Some of his works
• Bells and Pomegranates Series( No. I:~No.VIII) • Men and Women(1855) 《男男女女》 • Dramatis Personae(1864) 《剧中人物》 • The Ring and the Book(1868-9) 《指环与书》 • Dramatic Idylls: Second Series(1880) • Jocoseria(1883) • Ferishtah's Fancies(1884) • Parleyings with Certain People of Importance In Their Day(1887) • Asolando(1889)
Personal Information
• In Florence he worked on the poems that eventually comprised his two-volume Men and Women, in 1855, however, they made little impact. It was only after his wife's death, in 1861, when he returned to England and became part of the London literary scene, that his reputation started to take off. In 1868, after five years work, he completed and published the long blank-verse poem The Ring and the Book, and finally achieved a really significant hit.

Barrett’s Works
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• Elizabeth Barrett was born in 1806 in a rich family at Coxhoe Hall and enjoyed a happy childhood. • By the age of 12,she was writing short novels and plays, translating, and experimenting with different sorts of poetry. • In 1809，the growning family moved to Hope End. • The family moved to Sidmouth on the Devon coast in August 1832 and then to London in 1835. • From the autumn of 1837,her health began to decline. • She was buried at the Protestant Cemetery in Florence on 1 July 1861.

But the poet achieved true literary stardom with the publication of his verse novel The Ring and the Book, a historical tragedy based on a group of documents Browning had found at an Italian bookseller's. Inspired by Shelley in his early writings, and greatly inspired by his wife Elizabeth Barrett in his later writings.
That's my last Duchess painted on the wall
Stress "That's" and Ferrara reduces a woman, once his spouse, to something he casually points out, a thing on a wall. Emphasize "my" and Ferrara reveals his sense of owning her. Pause over "last" and we might infer that duchesses, to him, come in sequence, like collectibles that, if necessary, having become obsolescent, are to be replaced. If "Duchess" gets the stress, he implies that he acquires, not just works of art, but persons; and that Duchesses are no different from paintings. The line suggests self-satisfaction.

论勃朗宁戏剧独白诗中的独白者钱蓓慧摘要：英国诗人罗伯特•勃朗宁发展并完善的戏剧独白诗体对英美现代派诗人产生了深远的影响。

勃朗宁笔下的独白者，复杂多面，除了遵循戏剧独白诗中说话者“非诗人本人”的要求，还是戴着人物面具的说话者、矛盾的男性叙事者以及“不完美”的艺术家。

本文试图通过分析勃朗宁诗作中独白者的特征，探究勃朗宁的诗学观及其诗歌创作。

关键词：罗伯特•勃朗宁；戏剧独白诗；人物面具；男性叙事者；不完美；艺术家中图分类号：1106.2 文献标识码：A文章编号：1672 -0962(2021)03 -0096 -10引言罗伯特•勃朗宁（Robert Browmng)是英国维多利亚时期最具代表性的诗人之 一，因戏剧独白诗（dramatic monologue)而享有盛名。

勃朗宁一直强调他的诗是 “戏剧的”（Haug，2003: 17),并将好几部诗集的书名直接命名为“戏剧……诗”，如《戏剧抒情诗》（Lyrics)、《戏剧罗曼司和抒情诗》（Dramaiic/Romances trnd Lyrics)和《戏剧人物》（Drama^s Per^wae)等。

但需要说明的是，这一诗体并 非勃朗宁首创，他本人没有使用过“戏剧独白诗”这个术语，根据辛菲尔德（Alan Sinfield)的研究，戏剧独白诗的起源应该追溯到古希腊时期（Byron,2003: 30), 而它作为一个术语，最初出现是在19世纪中期用来形容勃朗宁的诗歌（Woolford, et a l,1996: 38)①。

勃朗宁发展和完善的戏剧独白诗一直被视为最典型的戏剧独白诗体，他通过基金项目：国家留学基金委员会“国家建设高水平大学公派研究生项目”（[2017]3109)。

作者简介：钱蓓慧，浙江大学人文学院世界文学与比较文学研究所博士研究生，研究方向为英美诗歌。

96论勃朗宁戏剧独白诗中的独白者借鉴“短剧”（playlet)和“虚构对话”（p s e u d o-d i a l o g u e)等体裁，为戏剧独白诗重新 注人了活力。