Premise: Dramatic monologue , also known as a persona poem , is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character . Robert Browning ( 7 May 1812 -- 12 December 1889 ) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets . When Browning died in 1889 , he was regarded as a sage and philosopher-poet who through his writing had made contributions to Victorian social and political discourse -- as in the poem Caliban upon Setebos , which some critics have seen as a comment on the theory of evolution , which had recently been put forward by Darwin and others .
Hypothesis: Robert Browning wrote poetry written in the form of a rhymed speech of an individual character.
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