It was initially ridiculed by critics for its apparent obscurity. RB
's biographer Donald Thomas
calls it one of the greatest literary disasters in the history of English poetry
Thomas, Donald. Robert Browning: A Life Within Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982.
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on account of its unexpectedly...
Literary responses
Robert Browning
Donald Thomas
writes that the Athenæum considered the play an affront to contemporary sexual morality.
Thomas, Donald. Robert Browning: A Life Within Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982.
