My Last Duchess and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

Forty-two works revealing the Victorian poet's great gifts as a poignant lyricist and a dramatist of great virtuosity. Collection includes a number of Browning's famed dramatic monologues — "Fra Lippo Lippi," "How It Strikes a Contemporary" and "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church" among them — plus such memorable masterworks as "Love among the Ruins," "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," "Home Thoughts from Abroad" and "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister." Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Pied Piper of Hamelin."