Robert Browning's Poetry

The Second Edition of this substantial collection of Browning’s poetry again reprints the texts of the seventeen-volume “Fourth and complete edition” (Smith, Elder), of which all but the final volume were approved by Browning before his death. The poems are ordered chronologically according to their first appearance in book form. Thirteen new poems are included in this editi...

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The Second Edition of this substantial collection of Browning’s poetry again reprints the texts of the seventeen-volume “Fourth and complete edition” (Smith, Elder), of which all but the final volume were approved by Browning before his death. The poems are ordered chronologically according to their first appearance in book form. Thirteen new poems are included in this edition, with Pauline now printed in its entirety. Annotations have been revised throughout to clarify Browning’s references and vocabulary. “Criticism” retains the important contextual perspective of the First Edition. The twenty-three essays, nine of which are new, are divided into three sections: “Victorian Views,” “Modern Essays in Criticism,” and “Interpretations of Poems.” A Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Index of Titles and First Lines are also included. .

The Experimental Phase (1833–45)
From Pauline (1833)
From Paracelsus (1835)
From Sordello (1840)
Pippa Passes (1841)
From Dramatic Lyrics (1842)
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The Experimental Phase (1833–45)
From Pauline (1833)
From Paracelsus (1835)
From Sordello (1840)
Pippa Passes (1841)
From Dramatic Lyrics (1842)
My Last Duchess
Count Grismond
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
In a Gondola
Cristina
Johannes Agricola in Mediation
Porphyria's Lover
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
From Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)
"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"
Pictor Ignotus
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
["Here's to Nelson's Memory!"]
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church
The Laboratory
Meeting at Night; Parting at Morning
Nationality in Drinks
The Major Phase (1855–69)
From Men and Women (1855)
Love Among the Ruins
A Lover's Quarrel
Evelyn Hope
Up at a Villa-Down in the City
A Woman's Last Word
Fra Lippo Lippi
A Tocatta of Galuppi's
By the Fire-Side
Any Wife to Any Husband
An Epistle...of Karshish, the Arab Physician
My Star
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
Respectability
A Light Woman
The Statue and the Bust
How It Strikes a Contemporary
The Last Ride Together
Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha
Bishop Blougram's Apology
Memorabilia
Andrea del Sarto
Saul [final version]
Women and Roses
Holy-Cross Day
The Guardian-Angel
Cleon
Popularity
Two in the Campagna
A Grammarian's Funeral
"Transcendentalism: A Poem in Twelve Books"
One Word More
From Dramatis Personae (1864)
James Lee's Wife
Di!s aliter Visum
Abt Vogler
Rabbi Ben Ezra
Caliban upon Setebos
Confessions
Prospice
Apparent Failure
Epilogue
From The Ring and the Book (1868–69)
Book V. Count Guido Franceschini
Book VI. Giuseppe Caponsacchi
Book X. The Pope
The Later Achievement (after 1870)
From Fifine at the Fair (1872)
Prologue (Amphibian)
Epilogue (The Householder)
From Aristophanes' Apology (1875)
[Thamuris Marching]
From Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper: With Other Poems (1876)
House
Fears and Scruples
Numpholeptos
From Jocoseria (1833)
Adam, Lilith, and Eve
Never the Time and the Place
From Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day (1887)
With Christopher Smart
From Asolando: Fancies and Facts (1889)
Prologue
Bad Dreams, I-IV
"Imperante Augusto Natus Est-"
Development
Epilogue
Prose
From "Introductory Essay" to the Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1852)
Criticism
VICTORIAN VIEWS
John Forster, Evidences of a New Genius for Dramatic Poetry
Thomas Carlyle, [Letter to Browning]
George Eliot, [Review of Men and Women]
William Morris, [Browning's Alleged Carelessness]
John Ruskin, [Browning and the Italian Renaissance]
Walter Bagehot, [Browning's Grotesque Art]
Robert W. Buchanan, [The Ring and the Book]
Alfred Austin, The Poetry of the Period: Mr. Browning
Algernon Charles Swinburne, [Browning's Obscurity]
Gerard Manley Hopkins, [Strictures on Browning]
Oscar Wilde, [Browning as "Writer of Fiction"]
Henry James, Browning in Westminster Abbey
Modern Essays in Criticism
REVALUATIONS
George Santayana, The Poetry of Barbarism
G.K. Chesterton, [Reply to Santayana]
William O. Raymond, The Infinite Moment
J. Hillis Miller, [Browning's Language]
THE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
Robert Langbaum, The Dramatic Monologue: Sympathy vs. Judgment
INTERPRETATIONS OF POEMS
W. David Shaw, Browning's Duke as Theatrical Producer ["My Last Duches, Browning's "Childe Roland": All Things Deformed and Broken
F.E.L. Priestley, Blougram's Apologetics
Roma A. King, Eve and the Virgin: "Andrea del Sarto"
E.D.H. Johnson, Robert Browning's Pluralistic Universe: A Reading of The Ring and the Book
Selected Bibliography
Index of Titles
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