Essay written for Kathy Psomiades' Victorian poetry class in the Department of English, Duke University (Spring 2008) The male speakers in Robert Browning’s two dramatic monologues “My Last Duches...

John Charles van Dyke (1856-1932) was an American art historian and critic. He was born at New Brunswick, N. J., studied at Columbia, and for many years in Europe. He was admitted to the New York b...