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How does Browning present the idea of love in 'The Laboratory' and 'My Last Duchess'?
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How does Browning present the idea of love in 'The Laboratory' and 'My Last Duchess'? Robert Browning was born into a wealthy family in 1812 in the suburbs of London. His education was a fusion of private instruction and formal schooling. Browning's Father was the owner of a large library of thousands of books, this helped Browning gain an immense literary knowledge. Browning was intelligent and he cultivated a taste for books and he learned numerous languages. Browning had a cultured and intellectual outlook on life. Browning wrote two of his most famous poems, 'The Laboratory' and 'My Last Duchess' at the start of the Victorian era, a time when Britain was going through vast change. The contrast between the poor and the rich was extraordinary. A large percentage of the British society was poverty stricken. Not everything was negative though, the industrialisation of Britain was a particularly exciting time. Technology was...
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