Robert Browning wrote poetry written only in the form of a speech of a chorus.
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 . The long poem Pauline brought him to the attention of Dante Gabriel Rossetti , and was followed by Paracelsus , which was praised by William Wordsworth and Charles Dickens , but in 1840 the difficult Sordello , which was seen as wilfully obscure , brought his poetry into disrepute . Sordello (poem) . It consists of a fictionalised version of the life of Sordello da Goito , a 13th-century Lombard troubadour depicted in Canto VI of Dante Alighieri 's Purgatorio .