Robert Browning's poetry: authoritative texts, criticism
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Norton
Publication Date
©1979
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First edition.
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book - First edition.
The texts of the poems
A note on the texts
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 Gismond
Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister
In a Gondola
Cristina
Johannes Agricola in meditation
Prophyria's lover
The pied pider of Hamelin
From Dramatic romances and lyrics (1845): How they bought 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 toccata 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
Dis 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. Guiseppi 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 (1883): 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
Imperanted Augusto Natus Est__
Development
Epilogue
Prose: From Introductory essay to the Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley 1852)
Criticism: Victorian views: Evidences of a new genius for dramatic poetry: John Foster
Letter to Browning / Thomas Carlyle
Review of Men and women / George Eliot
Browning's alleged carelessness / William Morris
Browning and the Italian Renaissance / John Ruskin
Browning's grotesque art / Walter Bagehot
The ring and the book / Robert W. Buchanan
The poetry of the period: Mr. Browning / Alfred Austin
Browning's obscurity / Algernon Charles Swinburne
Strictures on Browing / Gerard Manley Hopkins
Browning as writer of fiction / Oscar Wilde
Browning in Westminster Abbey / Henry James
Modern essays in criticism: Revaluations: The poetry of barbarism / George Santayana
Reply to Santayana / G. K. Chesterton
The infinite moment / William O. Raymond
Browning's language / J. Hillis Miller
The dramatic monologue: sympathy versus judgment / Robert Langbaum
Intepretations of poems: Browning's duke as theatrical producer [My last duchess] / W. David Shaw
Browning's Childe Roland: all things deformed and broken / Harold Bloom
Blougram's apologetics / F. E. L. Priestley
Eve and the virgin: Andrea del Sarto / Roma A. King, Jr.
Robert Browning's pluralistic universe: a reading of The ring and the book / E. D. H. Johnson.
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