
Within the span of a hundred years, what a bitter struggle is waged between talent and fate.Nguyen Du
Robert Browning was an English poet famed for his dramatic monologues, in which speakers reveal themselves in their own words. Married to the poet Elizabeth Barrett, he spent much of his life in Italy and published his masterpiece, The Ring and the Book, in 1868-69.
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