Robert Browning is a well known poet of the Victorian period, though his wife was way more famous than him. He was often at the time referred to as Mr. Elizabeth Browning, apparently -- I can't source that anymore, I think I was told it in school, don't quote me on that.
At any rate, mostly his poetry is fine, and you've probably read "His Last Duchess" if you went to a high school in the US. This is even better. In the guise of a romance, a story about Roland traveling as a great knight, we get just a real fucked up gothic poem. Lies, darkness, hatred, the works -- what does it mean to reach the end of the quest when the quest has done you in, in the meantime?