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Robert Browning’s Poetry

Contents

  • 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