POETRY AND

PROSE
PRESENTATION
BY:VICKY KUMAR(2K21/CO/513)
Joseph Addison

Milston, Wiltshire, England—died June 17,

1719, London), English essayist, poet, and
dramatist, who, with Richard Steele, was a
leading contributor to and guiding spirit of
the periodicals The Tatler and The
Spectator. His writing skill led to his
holding important posts in government
while the Whigs were in power.
 Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December
1889)
Robert Browning was born in Walworth in the
parish of Camberwell, Surrey, which now forms
part of the Borough of Southwark in south
London. He was baptised on 14 June 1812, at
Lock's Fields Independent Chapel, York Street,
Walworth,[2] the only son of Sarah Anna (née
Wiedemann) and Robert Browning
My Last Duchess

“My Last Duchess” is a dramatic monologue written by

Victorian poet Robert Browning in 1842. In the poem,
the Duke of Ferrara uses a painting of his former wife as
a conversation piece. The Duke speaks about his former
wife's perceived inadequacies to a representative of the
family of his bride-to-be, revealing his obsession with
controlling others in the process. Browning uses this
compelling psychological portrait of a despicable
character to critique the objectification of women and
abuses of power.
 Meeting At Night
By Robert Browning

"Meeting at Night" is a poem by Victorian poet

Robert Browning, which follows the journey of
its speaker to a meeting with a lover. It was
published in Dramatic Romances and
Lyrics (1845) with an additional "Morning"
section (that section was later separated into a
different poem titled "Parting at Morning").
Browning composed the poem during his
courtship of Elizabeth Barrett, his future wife,
who was already a successful poet at the time.
Barrett's father did not approve of Browning, and
perhaps a hint of this can be detected in the
hushed and secretive nature of the "meeting." The
poem is unusual for the Victorian era because it is
so sensual and sexually suggestive in a time of
The Tatler and The
Spectator
It was during Addison’s term in Ireland
that his friend Steele began
publishing The Tatler, which appeared
three times a week under the pseudonym
of Isaac Bickerstaff. Though at first issued
as a newspaper presenting accounts of
London’s political, social, and cultural
news, this periodical soon began
investigating English manners and
society, establishing principles of ideal
behaviour and genteel conduct, and
proposing standards of good taste for the
FEMALE ORATOR
Women are more proficient in the art of oratory and
eloquence than men. Many women can talk whole
hours together upon nothing. There are different
kinds of female orators - those who are adepts in
stirring up the passions, those who specialise in
fault - finding and censure, those who are gossipers
and those who are coquettes. The women are so
talkative because they cannot suppress their
thoughts, or because there is something about the
structure of their tongues making them wonderfully
voluble, or because their tongues have little weight
to carry. The writer, while he is not averse to female
voices, would like women to be prompted in their
talk by good nature, truth, and sincerity, instead of
by anger, censoriousness, gossiping and coquetry.