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Robert Browning.
Robert Browningâs first published work was the poem Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession, which was released anonymously in 1833.1
Although it was formally a dramatic monologue, the poem reflected many of the poet's own adolescent anxieties and passions. It received some favorable attention but was also criticized by John Stuart Mill for its intense self-consciousness, a critique that reportedly influenced Browning to adopt a more objective style in his later poetry.1