Brent is joined by Jennifer Holberg to discuss Robert Browning and his dramatic monologue about a psychopathic duke called ‘My Last Duchess’.

Jennifer is professor and chair of the English Department at Calvin University in the States and co-director of the Calvin Center for Faith and Writing. She’s also the author of the book ‘Nourishing Narratives’.

• (0:57) Who was Robert Browning?
• (5:10) Elizabeth Barrett Browning;
• (8:10) ‘My Last Duchess’;
• (12:53) Based on a true story;
• (16:50) The Duke and his crimes;
• (18:55) Irony;
• (23:45) Hyphens and broken speech in the poem;
• (30:05) The Neptune image.

Links mentioned in this episode:

calvin.edu/people/jennifer-l-holberg

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