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Browning found his individual and distinctively modern voice in 1842, with the volume Dramatic Lyrics.
Both used blank verse for their dramatic lyrics, poems that purport to render the accents of real men speaking.
The lyrics are almost a battle cry, full of dramatic lyrics – crashing waves, volcanoes, marching to the death.
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister (Dramatic Lyrics, 1842) is one of Robert Browning's brightest, punchiest, growliest anticlerical outbursts.
My Last Duchess, poem of 56 lines in rhyming couplets by Robert Browning, published in 1842 in Dramatic Lyrics, a volume in his Bells and Pomegranates series.
But the pillars of his achievement - Dramatic Lyrics (1842), Men and Women (1855), and Dramatis Personae (1864) - were installed in the pantheon.
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Tenor voices are often classified as dramatic, lyric, or heroic (heldentenor).
He has written more than a hundred songs since he broke through in the early 1990s as the frontman for his power pop trio Ben Folds Five, and solo hits like "Rocking the Suburbs" and "Jesusland" show an ear for dramatic lyric writing.
Whereas until about 1830 all singers were expected to be masters of the devices of bel canto, they were now categorized as dramatic, lyric, coloratura (specialist in florid song), and so on.
In its final lines, the poem breaks through the atmosphere of brooding — on life, death, nature, art, sex — and the dramatic lyric, Kunitz's lifelong project, reaches its most unyielding and most vulnerable pitch.
The opera is based on Robert Browning's great dramatic lyric, in which a 16th-century duke speaks to a silent listener about, we gradually realize, his murder of his first wife.
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