As with February of last year, it's Poetry Month again on the blog. This month is dedicated to the Victorian poet/playwright Robert Browning, who was a master of the dramatic monologue.
Browning's 1836 poem "Porphyria's Lover" is a twisted, psychological masterpiece and one of my favorite poems. Included in his collection Dramatic Lyrics (1842), it is now considered one of the finest Romantic poems of the Victorian Age.
I invite you now into a dark room on a rainy night and into the mind of madness, which is what romantic love is after all, isn't it?
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