Question

Browning was accused of self-worship when he wrote a poem that modeled _____. Tennyson Byron Shelley Wordsworth

Answer 1

Browning was accused of self-worship when he wrote a poem that modeled Shelley.

Robert Browning was accused of self-worship by John Stuart Mill. Then, he created the dramatic monologue where the characters revel their innermost feelings. Wrote "My Last Duchess" and Home Thoughts, from Abroad.

Browning’s first published poem was Pauline. Pauline was a very confessional poem, with Browning exposing his true feelings through the narrator. When John Stuart Mill reviewed Pauline, he noted that the young Browning was suffering from an “intense and morbid self-consciousness.”

Answer 2

He was accused of self-worship due to the poem Pauline, that was modeled after Shelley. The person who accused him was the esteemed linguistics philosopher John Stuart Mill.