I read a critical article on Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess". I confess it was harder to find something in the NCLC's than I would've thought. There was a considerable accumulation of critiques on Browning's work, but very little on "My Last Duchess".
The article I found concentrated mostly on the Duke in the poem, and our reactions to him, stating that "[t]he utter outrageousness of the Duke's behavior makes condemnation the least interesting response…" The title of the article was "Sympathy versus Judgment". Some of its points are that the Duke controls the entire poem, that it being a monologue was significant, and that he is almost easy to sympathize with and like. The article discusses Ferarra's nature and his self-involvement which allows the goodness of the Duchess to "shine through the Duke's utterance."
It goes on to speak about sympathy in general and how Browning "delighted in making a case for the apparently immoral position", how he found dramatic monologues......

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