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Browning's 'Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister.' (Robert Browning)
From: The Explicator
Date: 19930922
Author:Dessommes, Nancy B.
The speaker of Robert Browning's 'Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister' is an evil man who tries to discredit a fellow monk and, in so doing, ensures his damnation. Several lines in the poem parallel the planned fraud and failure of Dante's Guido da Montefeltro in the 'Inferno.' The speaker tries to make a pact with Satan while seeking release through confession, after discarding salvation through the Virgin Mary. Critics sometimes interpret this as a Protestant view of the abuse of the sacrament of confession.
The speaker of Browning's "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" reveals himself as a ...
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