Robert Browning's Porphyria's Lover Porphyria's Lover Facts   1.   Porphyria's Lover first appeared in the January 1836 issue of the Monthly Repository. It was subsequently published in Dramatic Lyrics in 1842 under the heading Madhouse Cells' along with the poem, Johannes Agricola in Meditatio…

“I find earth not grey but rosy/Heaven not grim but fair of hue.” Robert Browning, a cherished poet of the Victorian era, has many of his poems filled with unbridled optimism. He is “ an uncompromising foe of scientific materialism ” as  Hudson  states Victorian age is a watershed age in English litera…