Chapter 6. There, it will be remembered -- after having found that

Chapter 6. There, it will be remembered -- after having found that Browning's highest achievement is in his second period -- emphasis was laid on the primary importance of his life-work in its having compelled us to the assumption of a fresh critical standpoint involving the construction of a new definition. In the light of this new definition I think Browning will ultimately be judged. As the sculptor in "Pippa Passes" was the predestinated novel thinker in marble, so Browning himself appears as the predestinated novel thinker in verse; the novel thinker, however, in degree, not in kind. But I do not for a moment believe that his greatness is in his status as a thinker: even less, that the poet and the thinker are indissociable. Many years ago Sainte-Beuve destroyed this shallow artifice of pseudo- criticism: "Venir nous dire que tout poe"te de talent est, par essence, un grand PENSEUR, et que tout vrai PENSEUR est ne/cessairement artiste et poe"te, c'est une pre/tention insoutenable et que de/ment a\ chaque instant la re/alite/." When Browning's enormous influence upon the spiritual and mental life of our day -- an influence ever shaping itself to wise and beautiful issues -- shall have lost much of its immediate import, there will still surely be discerned in his work a formative energy whose resultant is pure poetic gain. It is as the poet he will live: not merely as the "novel thinker in verse". Logically, his attitude as `thinker' is unimpressive. It is the attitude, as I think some one has pointed out, of acquiescence with codified morality. In one of his `Causeries', the keen French critic quoted above has a remark upon the great Bossuet, which may with singular aptness be repeated of Browning: -- "His is the Hebrew genius extended, fecundated by Christianity, and open to all the acquisitions of the understanding, but retaining some degree of sovereign interdiction, and closing its vast horizon precisely where its light ceases." Browning cannot, or will not, face the problem of the future except from the basis of assured continuity of individual existence. He is so much in love with life, for

137 life's sake, that he cannot even credit the possibility of incontinuity; his assurance of eternity in another world is at least in part due to his despair at not being eternal in this. He is so sure, that the intellectually scrupulous detect the odours of hypotheses amid the sweet savour of indestructible assurance. Schopenhauer says, in one of those recently-found Annotations of his which are so characteristic and so acute, "that which is called `mathematical certainty' is the cane of a blind man without a dog, or equilibrium in darkness." Browning would sometimes have us accept the evidence of his `cane' as all-sufficient. He does not entrench himself among conventions: for he already finds himself within the fortified lines of convention, and remains there. Thus is true what Mr. Mortimer says in a recent admirable critique -- "His position in regard to the thought of the age is paradoxical, if not inconsistent. He is in advance of it in every respect but one, the most important of all, the matter of fundamental principles; in these he is behind it. His processes of thought are often scientific in their precision of analysis; the sudden conclusion which he imposes upon them is transcendental and inept." Browning's conclusions, which harmonise so well with our haphazard previsionings, are sometimes so disastrously facile that they exercise an insurrectionary influence. They occasionally suggest that wisdom of Gotham which is ever ready to postulate the certainty of a fulfilment because of the existence of a desire. It is this that vitiates so much of his poetic reasoning. Truth may ring regnant in the lines of Abt Vogler -- "And what is our failure here but a triumph's evidence For the fulness of the days?" -- but, unfortunately, the conclusion is, in itself, illogical. We are all familiar with, and in this book I have dwelt more than once upon, Browning's habitual attitude towards Death. It is not a novel one. The frontage is not so much that of the daring pioneer, as the sedate assurance of `the oldest inhabitant'. It is of good hap, of welcome significance: none the less there is an aspect of our mortality of which the poet's evasion is uncompromising and absolute. I cannot do better than quote Mr. Mortimer's noteworthy words hereupon, in connection, moreover, with Browning's artistic relation to Sex, that other great Protagonist in the relentless duel of Humanity with Circumstance. "The

138 final inductive hazard he declines for himself; his readers may take it if they will. It is part of the insistent and perverse ingenuity which we display in masking with illusion the more disturbing elements of life. Veil after veil is torn down, but seldom before another has been slipped behind it, until we acquiesce without a murmur in the concealment that we ourselves have made. Two facts thus carefully shrouded from full vision by elaborate illusion conspicuously round in our lives -- the life-giving and life-destroying elements, Sex and Death. We are compelled to occasional physiologic and economic discussion of the one, but we shrink from recognising the full extent to which it bases the whole social fabric, carefully concealing its insurrections, and ignoring or misreading their lessons. The other, in certain aspects, we are compelled to face, but to do it we tipple on illusions, from our cradle upwards, in dread of the coming grave, purchasing a drug for our poltroonery at the expense of our sanity. We uphold our wayward steps with the promises and the commandments for crutches, but on either side of us trudge the shadow Death and the bacchanal Sex, and we mumble prayers against the one, while we scourge ourselves for leering at the other. On one only of these can Browning be said to have spoken with novel force -- the relations of sex, which he has treated with a subtlety and freedom, and often with a beauty, unapproached since Goethe. On the problem of Death, except in masquerade of robes and wings, his eupeptic temperament never allowed him to dwell. He sentimentalised where Shakespeare thought." Browning's whole attitude to the Hereafter is different from that of Tennyson only in that the latter `faintly', while he strenuously, "trusts the larger hope." To him all credit, that, standing upon the frontiers of the Past, he can implicitly trust the Future. "High-hearted surely he; But bolder they who first off-cast Their moorings from the habitable Past." The teacher may be forgotten, the prophet may be hearkened to no more, but a great poet's utterance is never temporal, having that in it which conserves it against the antagonism of time, and the ebb and flow of literary ideals. What range, what extent of genius! As Mr. Frederick Wedmore has well said, `Browning is not a book -- he is a literature.' But that he will "stand out gigantic" in MASS of imperishable work, in

139 that far-off day, I for one cannot credit. His poetic shortcomings seem too essential to permit of this. That fatal excess of cold over emotive thought, of thought that, however profound, incisive, or scrupulously clear, is not yet impassioned, is a fundamental defect of his. It is the very impetuosity of this mental energy to which is due the miscalled obscurity of much of Browning's work -- miscalled, because, however remote in his allusions, however pedantic even, he is never obscure in his thought. His is that "palace infinite which darkens with excess of light." But mere excess in itself is nothing more than symptomatic. Browning has suffered more from intellectual exploitation than any writer. It is a ruinous process -- for the poet. "He so well repays intelligent study." That is it, unfortunately. There are many, like the old Scotch lady who attempted to read Carlyle's `French Revolution', who think they have become "daft" when they encounter a passage such as, for example, "Rivals, who . . . Tuned, from Bocafoli's stark-naked psalms, To Plara's sonnets spoilt by toying with, `As knops that stud some almug to the pith Pricked for gum, wry thence, and crinkled worse Than pursed eyelids of a river-horse Sunning himself o' the slime when whirrs the breeze -- GAD-FLY, that is.'" The old lady persevered with Carlyle, and, after a few days, found "she was nae sae daft, but that she had tackled a varra dee-fee-cult author." What would even that indomitable student have said to the above quotation, and to the poem whence it comes? To many it is not the poetry, but the difficulties, that are the attraction. They rejoice, after long and frequent dippings, to find their plummet, almost lost in remote depths, touch bottom. Enough `meaning' has been educed from `Childe Roland', to cite but one instance, to start a School of Philosophy with: though it so happens that the poem is an imaginative fantasy, written in one day. Worse still, it was not inspired by the mystery of existence, but by `a red horse with a glaring eye standing behind a dun one on a piece of tapestry that used to hang in the poet's drawing-room.'* Of all his faults, however, the worst is that jugglery, that inferior legerdemain, with the elements of the beautiful in verse: most obvious in "Sordello", in portions of "The Ring and the Book", and in so many of the later poems. These inexcusable violations are like the larvae within certain vegetable growths: soon or late they will destroy their

140 environment before they perish themselves. Though possessive above all others of that science of the percipient in the allied arts of painting and music, wherein he found the unconventional Shelley so missuaded by convention, he seemed ever more alert to the substance than to the manner of poetry. In a letter of Mrs. Browning's she alludes to a friend's "melodious feeling" for poetry. Possibly the phrase was accidental, but it is significant. To inhale the vital air of poetry we must love it, not merely find it "interesting", "suggestive", "soothing", "stimulative": in a word, we must have a "melodious feeling" for poetry before we can deeply enjoy it. Browning, who has so often educed from his lyre melodies and harmonies of transcendent, though novel, beauty, was too frequently, during composition, without this melodious feeling of which his wife speaks. The distinction between literary types such as Browning or Balzac on the one hand, and Keats or Gustave Flaubert on the other, is that with the former there exists a reverence for the vocation and a relative indifference to the means, in themselves -- and, with the latter, a scrupulous respect for the mere means as well as for that to which they conduce. The poet who does not love words for themselves, as an artist loves any chance colour upon his palette, or as the musician any vagrant tone evoked by a sudden touch in idleness or reverie, has not entered into the full inheritance of the sons of Apollo. The writer cannot aim at beauty, that which makes literature and art, without this heed -- without, rather, this creative anxiety: for it is certainly not enough, as some one has said, that language should be used merely for the transportation of intelligence, as a wheelbarrow carries brick. Of course, Browning is not persistently neglectful of this fundamental necessity for the literary artist. He is often as masterly in this as in other respects. But he is not always, not often enough, alive to the paramount need. He writes with "the verse being as the mood it paints:" but, unfortunately, the mood is often poetically unformative. He had no passion for the quest for seductive forms. Too much of his poetry has been born prematurely. Too much of it, indeed, has not died and been born again -- for all immortal verse is a poetic resurrection. Perfect poetry is the deathless part of mortal beauty. The great artists never perpetuate gross actualities, though they are the supreme realists. It is Schiller, I think, who

141 says in effect, that to live again in the serene beauty of art, it is needful that things should first die in reality. Thus Browning's dramatic method, even, is sometimes disastrous in its untruth, as in Caliban's analytical reasoning -- an initial absurdity, as Mr. Berdoe has pointed out, adding epigrammatically, `Caliban is a savage, with the introspective powers of a Hamlet, and the theology of an evangelical Churchman.' Not only Caliban, but several other of Browning's personages (Aprile, Eglamour, etc.) are what Goethe calls `schwankende Gestalten', mere "wavering images". -- * One account says `Childe Roland' was written in three days; another, that it was composed in one. Browning's rapidity in composition was extraordinary. "The Return of the Druses" was written in five days, an act a day; so, also, was "A Blot in the 'Scutcheon". -- Montaigne, in one of his essays, says that to stop gracefully is sure proof of high race in a horse: certainly to stop in time is imperative upon the poet. Of Browning may be said what Poe wrote of another, that his genius was too impetuous for the minuter technicalities of that elaborate ART so needful in the building up of monuments for immortality. But has not a greater than Poe declared that "what distinguishes the artist from the amateur is `architectonike' in the highest sense; that power of execution which creates, forms, and constitutes: not the profoundness of single thoughts, not the richness of imagery, not the abundance of illustration." Assuredly, no "new definition" can be an effective one which conflicts with Goethe's incontrovertible dictum. But this much having been admitted, I am only too willing to protest against the uncritical outcry against Browning's musical incapacity. A deficiency is not incapacity, otherwise Coleridge, at his highest the most perfect of our poets, would be lowly estimated. "Bid shine what would, dismiss into the shade What should not be -- and there triumphs the paramount Surprise o' the master." . . . Browning's music is oftener harmonic than melodic: and musicians know how the general ear, charmed with immediately appellant melodies, resents, wearies of, or is deaf to the harmonies of a more remote, a more complex, and above all a more novel creative method. He is, among poets, what Wagner is among musicians; as Shakespeare may be likened to

142 Beethoven, or Shelley to Chopin. The common assertion as to his incapacity for metric music is on the level of those affirmations as to his not being widely accepted of the people, when the people have the chance; or as to the indifference of the public to poetry generally -- and this in an age when poetry has never been so widely understood, loved, and valued, and wherein it is yearly growing more acceptable and more potent! A great writer is to be adjudged by his triumphs, not by his failures: as, to take up Montaigne's simile again, a famous race-horse is remembered for its successes and not for the races which it lost. The tendency with certain critics is to reverse the process. Instead of saying with the archbishop in Horne's "Gregory VII.", "He owes it all to his Memnonian voice! He has no genius:" or of declaring, as Prospero says of Caliban in "The Tempest", "He is as disproportioned in his manners as in his shape:" how much better to affirm of him what Ben Jonson wrote of Shakespeare, "Hee redeemed his vices with his vertues: there was ever more in him to bee praysed than to bee pardoned." In the balance of triumphs and failures, however, is to be sought the relative measure of genius -- whose equipoise should be the first matter of ascertainment in comparative criticism. For those who would discriminate between what Mr. Traill succinctly terms his GENERIC greatness as thinker and man of letters, and his SPECIFIC power as poet, it is necessary to disabuse the mind of Browning's "message". The question is not one of weighty message, but of artistic presentation. To praise a poem because of its optimism is like commending a peach because it loves the sunshine, rather than because of its distinguishing bloom and savour. The primary concern of the artist must be with his vehicle of expression. In the instance of a poet, this vehicle is language emotioned to the white-heat of rhythmic music by impassioned thought or sensation. Schopenhauer declares it is all a question of style now with poetry; that everything has been sung, that everything has been duly cursed, that there is nothing left for poetry but to be the glowing forge of words. He forgets that in quintessential art there is nothing of the past, nothing old: even the future has part therein only in that the present is always encroaching upon, becoming, the future. The famous pessimistic philosopher has, in common with other critics, made,

143 in effect, the same remark -- that Style exhales the odour of the soul: yet he himself has indicated that the strength of Shakespeare lay in the fact that `he had no taste,' that `he was not a man of letters.' Whenever genius has displayed epic force it has established a new order. In the general disintegration and reconstruction of literary ideals thus involved, it is easier to be confused by the novel flashing of strange lights than to discern the central vivifying altar-flame. It may prove that what seem to us the regrettable accidents of Browning's genius are no malfortunate flaws, but as germane thereto as his Herculean ruggednesses are to Shakespeare, as the laboured inversions of his blank verse are to Milton, as his austere concision is to Dante. Meanwhile, to the more exigent among us at any rate, the flaws seem flaws, and in nowise essential. But when we find weighty message and noble utterance in union, as we do in the magnificent remainder after even the severest ablation of the poor and mediocre portion of Browning's life-work, how beneficent seem the generous gods! Of this remainder most aptly may be quoted these lines from "The Ring and the Book", "Gold as it was, is, shall be evermore; Prime nature with an added artistry." How gladly, in this dubious hour -- when, as an eminent writer has phrased it, a colossal Hand, which some call the hand of Destiny and others that of Humanity, is putting out the lights of Heaven one by one, like candles after a feast -- how gladly we listen to this poet with his serene faith in God, and immortal life, and the soul's unending development! "Hope hard in the subtle thing that's Spirit," he cries in the Prologue to "Pacchiarotto": and this, in manifold phrasing, is his `leit- motif', his fundamental idea, in unbroken line from the "Pauline" of his twenty-first to the "Asolando" of his seventy-sixth year. This superb phalanx of faith -- what shall prevail against it? How winsome it is, moreover: this, and the humanity of his song. Profoundly he realised that there is no more significant study than the human heart. "The development of a soul: little else is worth study," he wrote in his preface to "Sordello": so in his old age, in his last "Reverie" -- "As the record from youth to age Of my own, the single soul -- So the world's wide book: one page Deciphered explains the whole Of our

144 common heritage." He had faith also that "the record from youth to age" of his own soul would outlast any present indifference or neglect -- that whatever tide might bear him away from our regard for a time would ere long flow again. The reaction must come: it is, indeed, already at hand. But one almost fancies one can hear the gathering of the remote waters once more. We may, with Strafford, "feel sure That Time, who in the twilight comes to mend All the fantastic day's caprice, consign To the low ground once more the ignoble Term, And raise the Genius on his orb again, -- That Time will do me right." . . . Indeed, Browning has the grand manner, for all it is more that of the Scandinavian Jarl than of the Italian count or Spanish grandee. And ever, below all the stress and failure, below all the triumph of his toil, is the beauty of his dream. It was "a surpassing Spirit" that went from out our midst. "One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." "Speed, fight on, fare ever There as here!" are the last words of this brave soul. In truth, "the air seems bright with his past presence yet."

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145 "Abt Vogler" [3] "After" [1] "Agamemnon of Aeschylus" [1] Alma ----, Letter to [1] "Amphibian" [1] Ancona [1] "Andrea del Sarto" [2] "Andromeda" [1] "Another way of Love" [1] "Any Wife to any Husband" [2] "Apparent Failure" [2] "Appearances" [1] Appearance, Browning's personal [2] Aprile [3] "Aristophanes' Apology" [1] "Ask not one least word of praise" [1] "Asolando" [8] Asolo [2] `The Athenaeum' [1] "Aurora Leigh" [5] Bagni di Lucca [2] Bailey's "Festus" [1] "Balaustion's Adventure" [2] Balzac [6] Barrett, Arabella [2] Barrett, Edward [1] Barrett, Mr. [3] "Beatrice Signorini" [1] Beautiful in Verse, the [1] Beethoven [1] "Before" [1] "Bells and Pomegranates" [3] "Ben Karshook's Wisdom" [1] Berdoe, E. [3] "Bifurcations" [1] "Bishop Blougram" [2] Blake, William [1] "A Blot in the 'Scutcheon" [6] Bossuet and Browning [1] Browning, Clara [1] Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: Browning's early influence on [1]; born March 4, 1809 (really 1806) [1]; her girlhood and early work [1]; death of brother [1]; residence in London [1]; "The Cry of the Children" [1]; friendships with Horne and Kenyon [1]; her appreciation of Browning's poems [1]; correspondence with him [1]; engagement [1]; acquaintance with Mrs. Jameson [1]; marriage [1]; Mr. Barrett's resentment [1]; journey to Paris [1]; thence to Pisa [1]; Browning's love for his wife [1]; "Sonnets from the Portuguese" [1]; in spring to Florence [1]; to Ancona, via Ravenna, in June [1]; winter at Casa Guidi [1]; "Aurora Leigh" [1]; description of poetess [2]; birth of son in 1849 [1]; "Casa Guidi Windows" [1]; 1850, spring in Rome [1]; proposal to confer poet-laureateship on Mrs. Browning [2]; 1851, visits England [1]; winter in Paris [1]; she is enthusiastic about Napoleon III. and interested in Spiritualism [1]; summer in London [1]; autumn at Casa Guidi [1]; winter 1853-4 in Rome, 1856 "Aurora Leigh", death of Kenyon, legacies [1]; 1857, death of Mr. Barrett [1]; 1858, delicacy of Mrs. Browning [1]; July 1858, Brownings travel to Normandy; "Two Poems by Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning", 1854 [1]; 1860, "Poems before Congress", and death of Arabella Barrett [1]; "North and South" [1]; return to Casa Guidi, and death on 28th June 1861 [2]. Browning, Reuben [3] Browning, Robert: born in London in

146 1812 [3]; his literary and artistic antecedents and contemporaries [1]; his parentage and ancestry [2]; concerning traces of Semitic origin [1]; his sisters [1]; his father [1]; his mother [2]; his uncle, Reuben Browning [1]; the Camberwell home [1]; his childhood [1]; early poems [1]; translation of the odes of Horace [1]; goes to school at Peckham [1]; his holiday afternoons [1]; "Death of Harold" [1]; criticisms of Miss Flower and Mr. Fox [1]; he reads Shelley's and Keats's poems [2]; he has a tutor [1]; attends Gower Street University College [1]; he decides to be a poet [1]; writes "Pauline", 1832 [1]; it is published in 1833 [1]; "Pauline" [1]; criticisms thereon [1]; Rossetti and "Pauline", studies at British Museum [2]; travels in 1833 to Russia [1]; to Italy [1]; return to Camberwell, 1834 [1]; and begins "Paracelsus", sonnet signed "Z", 1834 [1]; love for Venice [1]; "Paracelsus" [2]; criticisms thereon [2]; he meets Macready [1]; "Narses" [1]; he meets Talfourd, Wordsworth, Landor [1]; "Strafford" [1]; his dramas [1]; his love of the country [1]; "Pippa Passes" [2]; "Sordello" [1]; origin of "The Ring and the Book", 1865 [1]; "The Ring and the Book" [1]; "The Inn Album" [1]; "Men and Women" [1]; proposed "Transcripts from Life" [1]; "Flower o' the Vine" [1]; correspondence between him and Miss Barrett [1]; meeting in 1846 [1]; engagement [1]; marriage, 12th September 1846 [1]; sojourn in Pisa [1]; they go to Florence [1]; to Ancona, via Ravenna [1]; "The Guardian Angel" [1]; Casa Guidi [1]; birth of son, March 9th, 1849 [1]; they go to Vallombrosa and Bagni di Lucca for the autumn, and winter at Casa Guidi [1]; spring of 1850 in Rome [1]; "Two in the Campagna" [1]; 1851, they visit England [1]; description of Browning [1]; winter 1851-2 in Paris with Robert Browning, senior [1]; Browning writes Prefatory Essay to Moxon's edition of Shelley's Letters [1]; midsummer, Baths of Lucca [1]; in Florence [1]; "In a Balcony" [1]; winter in Rome, 1853-4 [1]; the work written there [1]; "Ben Karshook's Wisdom" [1]; "Men and Women" published [1]; Kenyon's death, and legacies to the Brownings [1]; poems written between 1855-64 [1]; July 1858, Brownings go to Normandy [1]; "Legend of Pornic", "Gold Hair" [1]; autumn of 1859 in Sienna [1]; winter 1860-61 in Rome [1]; death of Mrs. Browning, June 1861 [1]; "Prospice" [1]; 1866, Browning loses his father; Miss Sarianna resides with Browning [1]; his

147 ways of life [1]; first collected edition of his works, 1868 [1]; first part of "The Ring and the Book" published [1]; "Herve Riel" [1]; Tauchnitz edition, 1872 [1]; "Bishop Blougram" [1]; "Selections" [1]; "La Saisiaz", 1877 [1]; "The Two Poets of Croisic" [1]; later works [1]; "Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau", "Red Cotton Nightcap Country" [2]; "Fifine at the Fair" [3]; "Jocoseria" [1]; 1881, Browning Society established [1]; his latter years [1]; revisits Asolo [1]; Palazzo Rezzonico [1]; religious belief [1]; death, December 12th, 1889 [2]; funeral [1]; to be estimated by a new definition [1]; as poet, rather than as thinker [1]; his love of life [1]; his, like Bossuet's, a Hebrew genius fecundated by Christianity [1]; his artistic relations to Death and Sex [1]; where, in standpoint, he differs from Tennyson [1]; as to quality of his MASS of work [1]; intellectually exploited [1]; his difficulties, and their attraction to many [1]; his attitude to the future, influence, and significance [1]; summary of his life-work [1]. Browning, Robert Wiedemann Barrett [5] Browning, Robert (senior) [8] Browning, Sarianna (Mrs.) [4] Browning, Sarianna (Miss) [3] Browning Society, the [2] Browning, William Shergold [1] Byron [1] "By the Fireside" [1] "Caliban upon Setebos" [3] Camberwell [7] Carlyle, Thomas [6] Casa Guidi [6] "Cavalier Tunes" [1] "Childe Roland" [2] Chopin [1] "Christmas Eve and Easter Day" [2] "Cleon" [1] Coleridge [1] "Colombe's Birthday" [1] "The Confessional" [1] "Confessions" [1] Contemporaries, literary and artistic, of Browning [1] Conway, Moncure [2] "Cristina" [1] "Cristina and Manaldeschi" [1] Cunningham, Allan [2] Dante [4] Death, Browning on [3] "Death of Harold" [1] "A Death in the Desert" [2] Defoe [1] "De Gustibus" [3] Dickens, Charles [2] "Dis Aliter Visum" [2] <Di^s> Domett, Alfred (Waring) [1] Dramas, Browning's [1] "Dramatic Idyls" [2] "Dramatic Romances" [2] "Dramatis Personae" [3] Dulwich Wood [4] "Earth's Immortalities" [1] "Echetlos" [1] Epics, series of monodramatic [1] Equator of Browning's genius, the [1] "Evelyn Hope" [2] "A Face" [1] Faucit, Miss Helen [1] "Ferishtah's Fancies" [1] "Fifine at the Fair" [4] Flaubert, Gustave [1] "Flight of the Duchess" [2] "The

148 Flower's Name" [2] Flower o' the Vine [1] Flower, Miss Sarah (afterwards Adams) [2] "A Forgiveness" [1] Form, Artistic [1] Forster, John [3] Fox, Mrs. Bridell- [1] Fox, Rev. William Johnson [6] "Fra Lippo Lippi" [3] Furnivall, Dr. [2] Future, Browning and the [1] Goethe [4] "Gold Hair" [2] Gordon, General [1] Gosse, E. W. [1] "A Grammarian's Funeral" [2] "The Guardian Angel" [2] "Halburt and Hob" [1] Hawthorne, Nathaniel [2] "Heap Cassia", etc. [1] Heine [2] "The Heretic's Tragedy" [1] "Herve Riel" [2] <Herve/> Hillard, G. S. [1] "Holy Cross Day" [1] "Home Thoughts from Abroad" [4] "Home Thoughts from the Sea" [3] Hood, Thomas [1] Horne, R. H. [6] Houghton, Lord [1] "How they brought the Good News", etc. [3] Hugo, Victor [2] "Imperante Augusto" [1] "In a Balcony" [5] "In a Gondola" [1] "Inapprehensiveness" [1] "In a Year" [1] "The Inn Album" [5] "Instans Tyrannus" [1] "The Italian in England" [1] Italian Art, Music, etc. -- Influence of, on Browning [1] Italy, first visit to [1] "Ivan Ivanovitch" [2] <Iva\n Iva\novitch> "Ixion" [1] Jameson, Mrs. [1] "James Lee's Wife" [3] Jerrold, Douglas [1] "Jocoseria" [3] "Johannes Agricola" [1] Joubert [1] "Karshish, Epistle to" [2] Keats [6] Kenyon, John [3] "King Victor and King Charles" [2] "The Lady and the Painter" [1] Lamartine on Bossuet [1] Landor, Walter Savage [2] "La Saisiaz" [2] "The Last Ride Together" [1] Le Croisic [1] Lehmann's, Rudolf, portrait of Browning [2] `Leit-Motif', Browning's [1] Letter to a Girl Friend [1] "Life in a Love" [1] "A Light Woman" [1] "A Likeness" [1] "The Lost Leader" [2] "Love among the Ruins" [3] "Love in a Life" [1] "A Lover's Quarrel" [1] Lowell, James Russell [1] "Luria" [3] Macpherson, Mrs. [1] Macready [1] "Magical Nature" [1] Manner, Browning's [1] Marlowe [1] "Mary Wollstonecraft and Fuseli" [1] "Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha" [2] "May and Death" [1] Mazzini [1] "Meeting at Night" [2] "Memorabilia" [2] "Men and Women" [8] Meredith, George [4] Meynell, Wilfrid [1] Montaigne [1] Mortimer [1] Motive, Browning's fundamental poetic [1] Mill, John Stuart [1] Milsand, J. [1] Milton [4]

149 "Misconceptions" [1] Mitford, Mary [1] "Muleykeh" [1] <Mule/ykeh> Murray, Alma [1] Music of Browning's verse [1] "My Last Duchess" [1] "My Star" [1] "Narses" [1] "Natural Magic" [1] Nature, Browning's observation of [1] Nettleship, J. [2] "Never the Time and the Place" [2] Newman, Cardinal [1] `New Spirit of the Age' [1] Normandy, the Brownings in [1] "Now" [1] "Numpholeptos" [1] Obscurity, Browning's [2] "Old Pictures in Florence" [1] "O Lyric Love" [3] "One Way of Love" [1] "One Word More" [2] Optimism, Browning's [1] (and see Summary) Orion, new star in [1] Orr, Mrs. Sutherland [4] Orthodoxy, Browning's [1] "Over the seas our galleys went" [1] "Pacchiarotto" [5] Palazzo Rezzonico [1] "Pan and Luna" [1] "Paracelsus" [6] Paris, the Brownings in [1] "Parleyings" [1] "Parting at Morning" [1] Pater, Walter [1] "Pauline" [9] "A Pearl" [1] "Pheidippides" [1] "Pictor Ignotus" [1] "Pied Piper of Hamelin" [3] "Pippa Passes" [9] Pisa [1] "Pisgah Sights" [1] Plato [1] Poe, Edgar Allan [1] Poems, Early [5] "Poetical Works" [1] "Poetics" [1] Pompilia [2] "The Pope" [1] "Popularity" [1] "Porphyria" [2] Portraits of Browning [3] "A Pretty Woman" [1] Primary importance, Browning's [1] "Prince Hohenstiel- Schwangau" [3] Profundity, Browning's [1] "Prospice" [3] Rabbi Ben Ezra [2] Rawdon Brown, Sonnet to [1] "Red Cotton Nightcap Country" [2] Religious Opinions [1+] "Rephan" [1] "The Return of the Druses" [3] "Reverie" [3] Richmond [1] "The Ring and the Book" [8] Romance, Browning and [1] Rome, the Brownings in [2] Roscoe, W. C. [1] "Rosny" [1] Rossetti, Dante Gabriel [3] "The Round of Day" [1] Ruskin, J. [2] Russia, Visit to [1] Sainte-Beuve [2] "Saul" [3] Schiller [1] School, Peckham [2] Schopenhauer [2] Shortcomings, Browning's artistic [1] Science, Browning and [1] Scott, David [1] Scott, Sir W. [1] "Serenade at the Villa" [1] Sex, Browning's artistic relation to [1] Shakespeare [8] Shelley [11] Shelley Letters, the [1] "Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis" [2] Skelton, John [1] "Sludge the Medium" [2] Songs -- "Nay but you" [1]; "Round us the wild creatures" [1]; "Once I saw" [1]; "Man I am" [1]; "You groped your way"

150 [1]; "Wish me no wish unspoken" [1]. Sonnets, Browning's [1] "Sonnets from the Portuguese" [2] "Sordello" [12] Soul, Browning and the [1] "A Soul's Tragedy" [3] "Speculative" [1] Spiritual influence, Browning's [1] "The Statue and the Bust" [1] "St. Martin's Summer" [1] Story, W. W. [3] "Strafford" [5] Summary of Criticism [1] Swinburne, A. C. [1] Talfourd [2] Tauchnitz edition [1] Taylor, Bayard [1] Tennyson, Lord [6] "There's a woman like a dew-drop" [3] Thinker, Browning as [1] "Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr" [1] "A Toccata of Galuppi's" [2] "Tokay" [1] "The Tomb at St. Praxed's" [2] "Too Late" [1] "Touch him ne'er so lightly" [1] Tour-de-force, Poetry and [1] Transcripts from Life [1] Traill, H. D. [1] "Two in the Campagna" [3] "Two Poets of Croisic" [2] University College [1] Venice [3] "Verse-making" [1] Wagner [1] Wedmore, F. [1] Westminster Abbey [1] "What of the Leafage", etc. [1] "Why from the World" [1] Wiedemann, Mr. [1] "A Woman's Last Word" [1] Women, Browning's [1] "Women and Roses" [1] Wonder Spirit, Browning and the [1] Wordsworth [4] Work, Browning's mass of [1] Yates, E., Letter from Browning to [1] York, the horse [2] "Youth and Art" [2] "Z" signed Sonnet [1]

Bibliography. by John P. Anderson (British Museum).

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I. Works. II. Single Works. III. Contributions to Magazines. IV. Printed Letters. V. Selections. VI. Appendix -- Biography, Criticism, etc. Magazine Articles. VII. Chronological List of Works.

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I. Works.

Poems. 2 vols. A new edition. London, 1849, 16mo. Vol. 1: Paracelsus; Pippa Passes, a Drama; King Victor and King Charles, a Tragedy; Colombe's Birthday, a Play. Vol. 2: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, a

151 Tragedy; The Return of the Druses, a Tragedy; Luria, a Tragedy; A Soul's Tragedy; Dramatic Romances and Lyrics. The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. Third edition. 3 vols. London, 1863, 8vo. Vol. 1: Lyrics; Romances; Men and Women. Vol. 2: Tragedies and other Plays. Vol. 3: Paracelsus; Christmas Eve and Easter Day; Sordello. The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. 6 vols. London, 1868, 8vo. Vol. 1: Pauline; Paracelsus; Strafford. Vol. 2: Sordello; Pippa Passes. Vol. 3: King Victor and King Charles; Dramatic Lyrics; The Return of the Druses. Vol. 4: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon; Colombe's Birthday; Dramatic Romances. Vol. 5: A Soul's Tragedy; Luria; Christmas Eve and Easter Day; Men and Women. Vol. 6: In a Balcony; Dramatis Personae. Complete Works of Robert Browning. A reprint from the latest English edition. Chicago, 1872-74, 8vo. Nos. 1-19 of the "Official Guide of the Chicago and Alton R. R. and Monthly Reprint and Advertiser." The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. 2 vols. Leipzig, 1872, 8vo. Vols. 1197, 1198 of the "Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors". The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. 16 vols. London, 1888-9, 8vo. Vol. 1: Pauline; Sordello. Vol. 2: Paracelsus; Strafford. Vol. 3: Pippa Passes; King Victor and King Charles; The Return of the Druses; A Soul's Tragedy. Vol. 4: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon; Colombe's Birthday; Men and Women. Vol. 5: Dramatic Romances; Christmas Eve and Easter Day. Vol. 6: Dramatic Lyrics; Luria. Vol. 7: In a Balcony; Dramatis Personae. Vols. 8-10: The Ring and the Book, 3 vols. Vol. 11: Balaustion's Adventure; Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau; Fifine at the Fair. Vol. 12: Red Cotton Nightcap Country; The Inn Album. Vol. 13: Aristophanes' Apology; The Agamemnon of Aeschylus. Vol. 14: Pacchiarotto and how he worked in Distemper, with other Poems. Vol. 15: Dramatic Idyls; Jocoseria. Vol. 16: Ferishtah's Fancies; Parleyings with Certain People.

II. Single Works.

The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, transcribed by Robert Browning. London, 1877, 8vo. Aristophanes' Apology, including a transcript from Euripides, being

152 the Last Adventure of Balaustion. London, 1875, 8vo. Asolando: Fancies and Facts. London, 1890 [1889], 8vo. Now in seventh edition. Balaustion's Adventure; including a transcript from Euripides [i.e., a translation of the "Alcestis"]. London, 1871, 8vo. Now in third edition. Bells and Pomegranates. 8 Nos. London, 1841-1846, 8vo. No. 1: Pippa Passes. 1841. No. 2: King Victor and King Charles. 1842. No. 3: Dramatic Lyrics. 1842. No. 4: The Return of the Druses. 1843. No. 5: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon. 1843. No. 6: Colombe's Birthday. 1844. No. 7: Dramatic Romances and Lyrics. 1845. No. 8: Luria; A Soul's Tragedy. 1846. Christmas Eve and Easter Day. A poem. London, 1850, 16mo. Cleon. Moxon: London, 1855, 8vo. Reprinted in `Men and Women'. Dramatic Idyls. 2 series. London, 1879-80, 8vo. The First Series now in 2nd edition. Dramatis Personae. London, 1864, 8vo. Three poems in this book were reprinted from advance copies in the Atlantic Monthly in vol. 13, 1864, viz. `Gold Hair', pp. 596-599; `Prospice', p. 694; `Under the Cliff', pp. 737, 738. ---- Second edition. London, 1864, 8vo. Ferishtah's Fancies. London, 1884, 8vo. Now in third edition. Fifine at the Fair. London, 1872, 8vo. Gold Hair: a Legend of Pornic. [London], 1864, 8vo. Reprinted in `Dramatis Personae'. `Gold Hair' appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, May 1864, and `Dramatis Personae' was published on May 28, 1864. The Inn Album. London, 1875, 8vo. Jocoseria. London, 1883, 8vo. Now in third edition. La Saisiaz. The Two Poets of Croisic. London, 1878, 8vo. Men and Women. 2 vols. London, 1855, 8vo. Pacchiarotto and how he worked in distemper: with other poems. London, 1876, 8vo. Paracelsus. London, 1835, 8vo. Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day. Introduced by a Dialogue between Apollo and the Fates, etc. London, 1887, 8vo. Pauline, a Fragment of a Confession. London, 1833, 8vo. There are

153 only five known copies extant, two of which are in the British Museum. ---- A reprint of the original edition of 1833. Edited by T. J. Wise. London, 1886, 12mo. Four copies were printed on vellum. The Pied Piper of Hamelin, with 35 illustrations by Kate Greenaway. London [1889], 4to. Appeared originally in `Dramatic Lyrics' (Bells and Pomegranates, No. 3), 1842. Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau: Saviour of Society. London, 1871, 8vo. Red Cotton Nightcap Country; or Turf and Towers. London, 1873, The Ring and the Book. 4 vols. London, 1868-69, 8vo. Now in second edition. Sordello. London, 1840, 8vo. The Statue and the Bust. Moxon: London, 1855, 8vo. Reprinted in `Men and Women'. Strafford: an historical tragedy. London, 1837, 8vo. ---- [Acting edition for the use of the North London Collegiate School for Girls.] [London, 1882.] 8vo. ---- Another edition. With notes and preface by E. H. Hickey, and an introduction by S. R. Gardiner. London, 1884, 8vo. Two Poems. By Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning. London, 1854, 8vo. These two poems, "A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London", by Elizabeth B. Browning, and "The Twins", by Robert Browning, were printed by Miss Arabella Barrett, for a bazaar in aid of a "Refuge for Young Destitute Girls". "The Twins" was reprinted in "Men and Women", in 1855. III. Contributions to Magazines.

Sonnet. -- "Eyes, calm beside thee, (Lady couldst thou know!)" Dated August 17, 1834; signed "Z". (`Monthly Repository', vol. 8 N.S., 1834, p. 712.) The King. -- "A King lived long ago." Signed "Z". (`Monthly Repository', vol. 9 N.S., 1835, pp. 707, 708.) Reprinted with six fresh lines and revised throughout, in `Pippa Passes' (1841). Porphyria. -- "The rain set early in to-night." Signed "Z". (`Monthly

154 Repository', vol. 10 N.S., 1836, pp. 43, 44.) Johannes Agricola. -- "There's Heaven above; and night by night." Signed "Z". (`Monthly Repository', vol. 10 N.S., 1836, pp. 45, 46.) `Porphyria' and `Johannes Agricola' were reprinted in "Bells and Pomegranates", No. 3, with the title `Madhouse Cells'. Lines. -- "Still ailing, wind? Wilt be appeased or no?" Signed "Z". (`Monthly Repository', vol. 10 N.S., 1836, pp. 270, 271.) Reprinted revised, in `Dramatis Personae', 1864, as the first six stanzas of VI. of "James Lee". The Laboratory (Ancient Regime). (`Hood's Magazine', vol. 1, 1844, pp. 513, 514.) Reprinted in `Dramatic Romances and Lyrics' (1845), as the first of two poems called "France and England". Claret and Tokay. (`Hood's Magazine', vol. 1, 1844, p. 525.) Reprinted in `Dramatic Romances and Lyrics' (1845). Garden Fancies. I. The Flower's Name; II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis. (`Hood's Magazine', vol. 2, 1844, pp. 45-48.) Reprinted in `Dramatic Romances and Lyrics' (1845). The Boy and the Angel. (`Hood's Magazine', vol. 2, 1844, pp. 140-142.) Reprinted revised, and with five fresh couplets, in `Dramatic Romances and Lyrics' (1845). The Tomb at St. Praxed's (Rome 15--). (`Hood's Magazine', vol. 3, 1845, pp. 237-239.) Reprinted in `Dramatic Romances and Lyrics' (1845). The Flight of the Duchess. (`Hood's Magazine', vol. 3, 1845, pp. 313- 318.) Reprinted in `Dramatic Romances and Lyrics' (1845). Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley. [A fabrication.] With an introductory essay, by Robert Browning. London, 1852, 8vo. ---- On the poet, objective and subjective; on the latter's aim; on Shelley as man and poet. [Being a reprint of the Introductory Essay to "Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley".] London, 1881, 8vo. Published for the Browning Society. ---- A reprint of the Introductory Essay prefixed to the volume of Letters of Shelley. Edited by W. Tyas Harden. London, 1888, 8vo. Ben Karshook's Wisdom. (`The Keepsake', 1856, p. 16.) May and Death. (`The Keepsake', 1857, p. 164.) Reprinted in

155 `Dramatis Personae' (1864). Orpheus and Eurydice. F. Leighton. 8 lines. (`Royal Academy Exhibition Catalogue' 1864, p. 13.) Reprinted in `Poetical Works', 1868, where it is included in `Dramatis Personae'. Gold Hair. See note to `Dramatis Personae'. Prospice. See note to `Dramatis Personae'. Under the Cliff. See note to `Dramatis Personae'. A selection from the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. [First series edited by Robert Browning.] 2 series. London, 1866-80, 8vo. Herve Riel. (`Cornhill Magazine', vol. 23, 1871, pp. 257-260.) Reprinted in `Pacchiarotto and other Poems', 1876. "Oh Love, Love": the Lyric of Euripides in his Hippolytus. (`Euripides'. By J. P. Mahaffy, p. 116.) London, 1879, 12mo. "The Blind Man to the Maiden said." (`The Hour will Come, by Wilhelmine von Hillern. From the German by Clara Bell', vol. 2, p. 174.) London [1879], 8vo. Printed anonymously; quoted with statement of authorship in the `Whitehall Review', March 1, 1883. Reprinted in `Browning Society's Papers', Pt. 4, p. 410. Ten new lines to "Touch him ne'er so lightly". (`Dramatic Idyls', 2nd ser., 1880, p. 149.) Lines written in an autograph album, Oct. 14, 1880. (`Century Magazine', vol. 25, 1882, pp. 159, 160.) Printed without Mr. Browning's consent. Reprinted in the `Browning Society's Papers', Pt. 3, p. 48. Sonnet on Goldoni (dated "Venice, Nov. 27, 1883"). Written for the Album of the Committee of the Goldoni Monument at Venice, and inserted on the first page. (`Pall Mall Gazette', Dec. 8, 1883.) Reprinted in the Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 5, p. 98*. Sonnet on Rawdon Brown (dated Nov. 28, 1883). (`Century Magazine', vol. 27, 1884, p. 640.) Reprinted in the Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 5, p. 132*. Paraphrase from Horace. Four lines, written impromptu for Mr. Felix Moscheles. (`Pall Mall Gazette', Dec. 13, 1883, p. 6.) Reprinted in the Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 5, p. 99*. Helen's Tower: Sonnet, dated "April 26, 1870." Written for the Earl of

156 Dufferin, who built a tower in memory of his mother, Helen, Countess of Gifford, on his estate at Clandeboye. (`Pall Mall Gazette', Dec. 28, 1883, p. 2.) Reprinted in `Sonnets of this Century', edited by William Sharp, 1886, and in the Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 5, p. 97*. The Founder of the Feast: Sonnet. (Dated "April 5, 1884.") Inscribed by Mr. Browning in the Album presented to Mr. Arthur Chappell, director of the St. James's Hall Concerts, etc. (`The World', April 16, 1884.) Reprinted in the Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 7, p. 18*. "The Names". Sonnet on Shakespeare. Contributed to the "Shaksperian Show-Book" of the Shaksperian Show, held at the Albert Hall, on May 29-31, 1884. Reprinted in the `Pall Mall Gazette', May 29, and in the Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 5, p. 105*. The Divine Order and other Sermons and Addresses, by the late Thomas Jones. Edited by Brynmor Jones. With a short introduction by Robert Browning. London, 1884, 8vo. Why I am a Liberal: Sonnet. (`Why I am a Liberal', edited by Andrew Reid. London, 1885, p. 11.) Reprinted in `Sonnets of this Century', edited by William Sharp, 1886, and in the Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 8, p. 92*. Prefatory Note to the `Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning', 1889, dated "Dec. 10, 1887." To Edward Fitzgerald. "I chanced upon a new book yesterday." 12 lines, dated "July 8, 1889" (`Athenaeum', July 13, 1889, p. 64).

IV. Printed Letters.

Letter to Laman Blanchard [? April, 1841], dated "Craven Cottage, Saturday." (`Poetical Works of Laman Blanchard', pp. 6-8.) London, 1876, Letters to Henry Fothergill Chorley on his novels Pomfret (1845) and Roccabella (1860). (`Autobiography, Memoir, and Letters of Henry Fothergill Chorley', vol. 2, pp. 25, 26, 169-174.) Letter to R. H. Horne, dated Pisa, Dec. 4 [1846]. Another dated London, Sept. 24 [1851], signed Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (`Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to R. H. Horne, 1877, vol. 2, pp.

157 182-3, 194-5.) London, 1877, 8vo. Letter to William Etty, R.A., dated "Bagni di Lucca, Sept. 21, 1849." (`Life of William Etty, R.A.' By Alexander Gilchrist, vol. 2, pp. 280-81.) London, 1855, 8vo. Letter to Leigh Hunt (dated "Bagni di Lucca, 6th Oct., 1857"). (`Correspondence of Leigh Hunt, edited by his eldest son', vol. 2, pp. 264- 267.) London, 1862, 8vo. Letter to the Editor of `The Daily News', dated "19 Warwick Crescent, W., Feb. 9," stating that his contribution to the French Relief Fund was his publishers' payment for a lyrical poem (Herve Riel). (`Daily News', Feb. 10, 1871.) Letter to the Editor of `The Daily News', dated "Nov. 20." On line 131, "Gave us the doctrine of the enclitic De" of the poem, `A Grammarian's Funeral'. (`Daily News', Nov. 21, 1874.) Letter to the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, on the Poem of `The Lost Leader' and `Wordsworth', dated "19 Warwick Crescent, Feb. 24, 1875." (`The Prose Works of William Wordsworth'. Edited by the Rev. A. B. Grosart, vol. 1, p. xxxvii.) London, 1876, 8vo. The Lord Rectorship of St. Andrew's. Letter to the Editor of `The Times', dated "19 Warwick Crescent, Nov. 19." (`Times', Nov. 20, 1877.) Letter to F. J. Furnivall. (`Academy', Dec. 20, 1878.) Letter to Mr. J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, and printed by the latter in 1881. Letter to Mr. Charles Kent, dated "29 De Vere Gardens, W., 28 August, 1889." Accompanied by a presentation copy of the 3rd vol. of the new collective edition of "Poems". (`Athenaeum', Dec. 21, 1889, p. 860). In Berdoe's "Browning's Message to his Time", etc., London, 1890, there are a number of letters from Browning. In the new edition of Kingsland's "Robert Browning", London, 1890, there are several letters from Browning. [Mrs. Sutherland Orr's "Life and Letters of Robert Browning", London, 1891, includes a number of his letters, and a few fugitive poems. -- A. L., 1996.]

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V. Selections.

Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning. [Edited by J. Forster and B. W. Procter.] London, 1863 [1862], 16mo. Moxon's Miniature Poets. A Selection from the Works of Robert Browning. London, 1865, 8vo. Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning. 2 series. London, 1872-80, 8vo. Favourite Poems. Illustrated. Boston, 1877, 16mo. A Selection from the Works of Robert Browning. With a memoir of the author, and explanatory notes. Edited by F. H. Ahn. Berlin, 1882, 8vo. Vol. 8 of Ahn's "Collection of British and American Standard Authors." Stories from Robert Browning. By F. M. Holland. With an introduction by Mrs. Sutherland Orr. London, 1882, 8vo. Lyrical and Dramatic Poems selected from the works of Robert Browning. With an extract from Stedman's "Victorian Poets". Edited by E. T. Mason. New York, 1883, 8vo. Selections from the Poetry of Robert Browning. With an introduction by R. G. White. New York [1883], 8vo. Pomegranates from an English Garden: a selection from the poems of Robert Browning. With introduction and notes by J. M. Gibson. New York, 1885, 8vo. Select Poems of Robert Browning. Edited, with notes, by William J. Rolfe and Heloise E. Hersey. New York, 1886, 8vo. Lyrics, Idyls, and Romances from the poetic and dramatic works of Robert Browning. Boston, 1887, 8vo. Good and True Thoughts from Robert Browning. Selected by Amy Cross. New York, 1888, 4to. Printed in blue ink, and on one side of the leaf. The Browning Reciter: Poems for Recitation, by Robert Browning and other writers. Edited by A. H. Miles. London, 1889, 8vo. Part of the "Platform Series".

VI. Appendix --

Biography, Criticism, etc.

159 Alexander, William John. -- An Introduction to the poetry of Robert Browning. Boston, 1889, 8vo. Austin, Alfred. -- The Poetry of the Period. London, 1870, 8vo. Robert Browning, pp. 38-76. Appeared originally in `Temple Bar', vol. 26, 1869, pp. 316-333. Bagehot, Walter. -- Literary Studies. 2 vols. London, 1879, 8vo. Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English Poetry, vol. 2, pp. 338-390. Appeared originally in the `National Review', vol. 19, 1864, pp. 27-67. Barnett, Professor. -- Browning's Jews and Shakespeare's Jew. Read at the 54th meeting of the Browning Society, Nov. 25th, 1887. London, 1888, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 10, pp. 207-220. Beale, Dorothea. -- The Religious Teaching of Browning. (Read at the 10th meeting of the Browning Society, Oct. 27th, 1882.) London, 1882, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 3, pp. 323-338. Berdoe, Edward. -- Browning as a Scientific Poet. (Read at the meeting of the Browning Society, April 24th, 1885.) London, 1885, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 7, pp. 33-54. ---- Browning's Estimate of Life. (Read at the meeting of the Society, Oct. 28, 1887.) London, 1888, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 10, pp. 200-206. ---- Browning's Message to his Time: His Religion, Philosophy, and Science. [With facsimile letters of Browning and portrait.] London, 1890, Birrell, Augustine. -- Obiter Dicta. London, 1884, 8vo. On the alleged obscurity of Mr. Browning's poetry, pp. 55-95. Browning, Robert. -- Robert Browning's Poetry. Outline Studies published for the Chicago Browning Society. Chicago, 1886, 8vo. Browning Society. -- The Browning Society's Papers. In progress. London, 1881, etc., 8vo. Buchanan, Robert. -- Master-Spirits. London, 1873, 8vo. Browning's Masterpiece, pp. 89-109. A revised reprint of the Athenaeum reviews of "The Ring and the Book" in December and March 1870. Bulkeley, Rev. J. H. -- James Lee's Wife. (Read at the 16th meeting of

160 the Browning Society, May 25, 1883.) London, 1883, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 4, pp. 455-468. ---- The Reasonable Rhythm of some of Browning's poems. Read at the 42nd meeting of the Browning Society, May 28, 1886. London, 1886, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 8, pp. 119-131. Burt, Mary E. -- Browning's Women, etc. Chicago, 1887, 8vo. Bury, John B. -- Browning's Philosophy. (Read at the 6th meeting of the Browning Society, April 28, 1882.) London, 1882, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 3, pp. 259-277. ---- On "Aristophanes' Apology". Read at the 38th meeting of the Browning Society, Jan. 29, 1886. London, 1886, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 8, pp. 79-86. C. C. S., i.e., C. S. Calverley. -- Fly Leaves. Cambridge, 1872, 8vo. "The Cock and the Bull", a Parody on `The Ring and the Book', pp. 113- 120. Cooke, Bancroft. -- An Introduction to Robert Browning. A criticism of the purpose and method of his earlier works. London [1883], 8vo. Cooke, George Willis. -- Poets and Problems. London [1886], 8vo. Browning, pp. 269-388. Cooper, Thompson. -- Men of Mark, etc., London, 1881, 4to. Robert Browning, with photograph. Fifth Series, No. 17. Corson, Hiram. -- The Idea of Personality, as embodied in Robert Browning's Poetry. (Read at the 8th meeting of the Browning Society, June 23, 1882.) London, 1882, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 3, pp. 293-321. [Also included in:] ---- An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry. Boston, 1886, 8vo. [3rd ed. is now online.] Courtney, W. L. -- Studies New and Old. London, 1888, 8vo. Robert Browning, Writer of Plays, pp. 100-123. Devey, J. -- A Comparative Estimate of Modern English Poets. London, 1873, 8vo. Browning, pp. 376-421. Dowden, Edward. -- Mr. Tennyson and Mr. Browning. (`The Afternoon Lectures on Literature and Art delivered in . . . Dublin, 1867 and 1868', pp. 141-179.) Dublin, 1869, 8vo. Reprinted in E. Dowden's

161 "Studies in Literature", 1878, pp. 191-239. ---- Studies in Literature, 1789-1877. London, 1878, 8vo. Mr. Browning's place in recent literature, pp. 80-84; Mr. Tennyson and Mr. Browning, pp. 191-239. ---- Transcripts and Studies. London, 1888, 8vo. Mr. Browning's "Sordello", pp. 474-525. Eyles, F. A. H. -- Popular Poets of the Period, etc. London, 1888, etc., 8vo. Robert Browning, by Alexander H. Japp, No. 7, pp. 193-199. Fleming, Albert. -- Andrea del Sarto. Read at the 39th meeting of the Browning Society, Feb. 26, 1886. London, 1886, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 8, pp. 95-102. Forman, H. Buxton. -- Our Living Poets. London, 1871, 8vo. Robert Browning, pp. 103-152. Fotheringham, James. -- Studies in the Poetry of Robert Browning. London, 1887, 8vo. ---- Second edition, revised and enlarged. London, 1888, 8vo. Friswell, J. Hain. -- Modern Men of Letters honestly criticised. London, 1870, 8vo. Robert Browning, pp. 119-131. Fuller, S. Margaret. -- Papers on Literature and Art. 2 parts. London, 1846, 8vo. Browning's Poems, pt. 2, pp. 31-45. Furnivall, Frederick J. -- A Bibliography of Robert Browning, from 1833-81. London, 1881-82, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, 1881-4, Pts. 1 and 2. ---- How the Browning Society came into being. With some words on the characteristics and contrasts of Browning's early and late work. London, 1884, 8vo. ---- A grammatical analysis of "O Lyric Love". Read at the 48th meeting of the Browning Society, Feb. 25, 1887. London, 1888, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 9, pp. 165-168. Galton, Arthur. -- Urbana Scripta. Studies of five living poets, etc. London, 1885, 8vo. Mr. Browning, pp. 59-76. Gannon, Nicholas J. -- An Essay on the characteristic errors of our most distinguished living poets. Dublin, 1853, 8vo. Robert Browning, pp. 25-32.

162 Glazebrook, Mrs. M. G. -- "A Death in the Desert". Read at the 48th meeting of the Browning Society, Feb. 25, 1887. London, 1888, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 9, pp. 153-164. Halliwell-Phillipps, James O. -- Copy of Correspondence [between J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps and Robert Browning, concerning expressions respecting Halliwell-Phillipps, used by F. J. Furnivall in the preface to a facsimile of the second edition of Hamlet, published in 1880]. [Brighton? 1881] fol. Hamilton, Walter. -- Parodies of the Works of English and American Authors. London, 1889, 8vo. Robert Browning, vol. 6, pp. 46-55. Haweis, Rev. H. R. -- Poets in the Pulpit. London, 1880, 8vo. Robert Browning. New Year's Eve, pp. 117-143. Herford, C. H. -- Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau. London, 1886, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 8, pp. 133-145. Hodgkins, Louise Manning. -- Nineteenth Century Authors. Robert Browning. Boston [1889], 8vo. Holland, F. May. -- Sordello. A Story from Robert Browning. New York, 1881, 8vo. Very scarce. Horne, R. H. -- A New Spirit of the Age. 2 vols. London, 1844, 8vo. Robert Browning (with a portrait engraved by J. C. Armytage) and J. W. Marston, vol. 2, pp. 153-186. Hutton, Richard Holt. -- Essays, Theological and Literary. 2 vols. London, 1871, 8vo. Mr. Browning, vol. 2, pp. 190-247. Johnson, Rev. Prof. Edwin. -- On "Bishop Blougram's Apology". (Read at the 7th meeting of the Browning Society, May 26, 1882.) London, 1882, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 3, pp. 279-292. ---- Conscience and Art in Browning. London, 1882, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 3, pp. 345-379. ---- On "Mr. Sludge the Medium". Read at the 31st meeting of the Browning Society, March 27, 1885. London, 1885, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 7, pp. 13-32. Kingsland, William G. -- Robert Browning: chief poet of the age. An essay addressed primarily to beginners in the study of Browning's poems. London, 1887, 8vo.

163 ---- New edition, with biographical and other additions. London, 1890, Landor, Walter Savage. -- The Works of Walter Savage Landor. 2 vols. London, 1846, 8vo. Poem "To Robert Browning", vol. 2, p. 673. M`Cormick, William S. -- Three Lectures on English Literature. Paisley, 1889, 8vo. The poetry of Robert Browning, pp. 125-184. Macdonald, George. -- Orts. London, 1882, 8vo. Browning's "Christmas Eve", pp. 195-217. ---- The Imagination and other Essays. Boston [1883], 8vo. Browning's "Christmas Eve", pp. 195-217. McNicoll, Thomas. -- Essays on English Literature. London, 1861, 8vo. New Poems of Browning and Landor (1856), pp. 298-314. McCrie, George. -- The Religion of our Literature. Essays upon Thomas Carlyle, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, etc. London, 1875, 8vo. Robert Browning, pp. 69-109. Macready, William Charles. -- Macready's Reminiscences and Selections from his diaries and letters. 2 vols. London, 1875, 8vo. Numerous references to Browning. Mayor, Joseph B. -- Chapters on English Metre. London, 1886, 8vo. Tennyson and Browning, Chap. 12, pp. 184-196. Morison, J. Cotter. -- "Caliban upon Setebos", with some notes on Browning's Subtlety and Humour. (Read at the 24th Meeting of the Browning Society, April 25, 1884.) London, 1884, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 5, pp. 489-498. Morrison, Jeanie. -- Sordello. An outline analysis of Mr. Browning's Poem. London, 1889, 8vo. Nettleship, John T. -- Essays on Robert Browning's Poetry. London, 1868, 8vo. ---- New edition. New York, 1890, 8vo. ---- On Browning's "Fifine at the Fair". To be read at the 4th Meeting of the Browning Society, Feb. 24, 1882. London, 1882, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 2, pp. 199-230. ---- Classification of Browning's Works. London, 1882, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 2, pp. 231-234.

164 ---- Browning's Intuition, specially in regard of music and the Plastic Arts. (Read at the 13th meeting of the Browning Society, Feb. 23, 1883.) London, 1883, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 4, pp. 381-396. ---- On the development of Browning's Genius in his capacity as poet or maker. Read at the 35th Meeting of the Browning Society, Oct. 30, 1885. London, 1886, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 8, pp. 55- 77. Noel, Hon. Roden. -- Essays on Poetry and Poets. London, 1886, 8vo. Robert Browning, pp. 256-282; Robert Browning's Poetry, pp. 283-303. Notes and Queries. -- Notes and Queries. 7 Series. London, 1849-1889, 4to. Numerous references to Browning. O'Byrne, George. -- Robert Browning. In Memoriam. An Epicedium. Nottingham [1890], 8vo. O'Conor, William Anderson. -- Essays in Literature and Ethics. Manchester, 1889, 8vo. Browning's "Childe Roland", pp. 1-24. Ormerod, Helen J. -- Some Notes on Browning's Poems referring to Music. Read at the 51st Meeting of the Browning Society, May 27, 1887. London, 1888, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 9, pp. 180-195. ---- Abt Vogler, the Man. Read at the 55th Meeting of the Browning Society, Jan. 27th, 1888. London, 1888, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 10, pp. 221-236. Orr, Mrs. Sutherland. -- A Handbook to the Works of Robert Browning. London, 1885, 8vo. ---- Second edition, revised. London, 1886, 8vo. ---- Classification of Browning's Poems. London, 1882, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 2, pp. 235-238. [Orr, Mrs. Sutherland. -- Life and Letters of Robert Browning. 2nd ed. Smith, Elder, & Co.: London, 1891, 8vo. Now online. -- A. L., 1996.] Outram, Leonard S. -- Love's Value. Colombe's Birthday. Act IV. (The Avowal of Valence.) Read at the 38th Meeting of the Browning Society, Jan. 29, 1886. London, 1886, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 8, pp. 87-94. Pearson, Howard S. -- On Browning as a Landscape Painter. Read at the 41st Meeting of the Browning Society, April 30, 1886. London, 1886,

165 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 8, pp. 103-118. Pollock, Frederick. -- Leading cases done into English. By an Apprentice of Lincoln's Inn [Frederick Pollock]. Second edition. London, 1876, 8vo. IV. "Scott v. Shepherd (1 Sm. L. C. 477.), Any Pleader to any Student", pp. 15-19. A Parody on Browning. Portrait. -- The Portrait. Vol. 1. London, 1877, 4to. Robert Browning, by G. Barnett Smith, 4 pages. The portrait is from a photograph by Elliott & Fry. Portrait Gallery. -- National Portrait Gallery. London [1877], 4to. Robert Browning (with portrait), 4th Series, pp. 73-80. Powell, Thomas. -- The Living Authors of England. New York, 1849, 8vo. Robert Browning, pp. 71-85. ---- Pictures of the Living Authors of Britain. London, 1851, 8vo. Robert Browning, pp. 61-75. Radford, Ernest. -- Illustrations to Browning's Poems; with a notice of the artists and the pictures, by E. Radford. 2 pts. London, 1882-3, fol. Published for the Browning Society. Raleigh, W. A. -- On some prominent points in Browning's Teaching. (Read at the 22nd Meeting of the Browning Society, Feb. 22, 1884.) London, 1884, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 5, pp. 477-488. Reeve, Lovell. -- Portraits of Men of Eminence in Literature, Science, and Art, with biographical memoirs, etc. 6 vols. London, 1863-67, 8vo. Robert Browning, vol. 1, pp. 109-112. Revell, William F. -- Browning's Poems on God and Immortality as bearing on life here. (Read at the 14th Meeting of the Browning Society, March 30, 1883.) London, 1883, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 4, pp. 435-454. ---- Browning's Views of Life. Address on Oct. 28, 1887. London, 1888, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 10, pp. 197-199. Sharp, William. -- Browning and the Arts. London, 1882, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 3, pp. 34*-40*. Sharpe, Rev. John. -- On "Pietro of Abano" and the leading ideas of "Dramatic Idyls". Second series, 1880. (Read at the 2nd Meeting of the Browning Society, Nov. 25, 1881.) London, 1882, 8vo. The Browning

166 Society's Papers, Pt. 2, pp. 191-197. ---- Jocoseria. (Read at the 20th Meeting of the Browning Society, Nov. 23, 1883.) London, 1884, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 5, pp. 93*-97*. Shirley, (pseud.) [i.e., John Skelton]. -- A Campaigner at Home. London, 1865, 8vo. Robert Browning, pp. 247-283. Appeared originally in Fraser's Magazine, vol. 67, 1863, pp. 240-256. Stedman, Edmund Clarence. -- Victorian Poets. Boston, 1876, 8vo. Robert Browning, pp. 293-341. ---- Another edition. Boston, 1887, 8vo. Stoddart, Anna M. -- "Saul". Read at the 59th Meeting of the Browning Society, May 25, 1888. London, 1888, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 10, pp. 264-274. Swinburne, Algernon C. -- The Works of George Chapman: Poems and Minor Translations. London, 1875, 8vo. On Browning, pp. xiv-xix of the "Essay on George Chapman's poetical and dramatic works." ---- Specimens of Modern Poets. The Heptalogia, or the Seven against Sense, etc. London, 1880, 8vo. John Jones, pp. 9-39. A parody on James Lee. Symons, Arthur. -- Is Browning Dramatic? (Read at the 29th Meeting of the Browning Society, Jan. 30, 1885.) London, 1885, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 7, pp. 1-12. ---- An Introduction to the Study of Browning. London, 1886, 8vo. ---- Some Notes on Mr. Browning's last volume. (On Parleyings with Certain People.) Read at the 50th Meeting of the Browning Society, April 29, 1887. London, 1888, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 9, pp. 169-179. Thomson, James. -- Notes on the Genius of Robert Browning. (Read at the 3rd Meeting of the Browning Society, Jan. 27, 1882.) London, 1882, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 2, pp. 239-250. Todhunter, Dr. John. -- "The Ring and the Book". (Read at the 19th Meeting of the Browning Society, Oct. 26, 1883.) London, 1884, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 5, pp. 85*-92*. ---- "Strafford" at the Strand Theatre, Dec. 21, 1886. Read at the 47th

167 Meeting of the Browning Society, Jan. 28, 1887. London, 1888, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 9, pp. 147-152. Turnbull, Mrs. -- Abt Vogler. (Read at the 17th Meeting of the Browning Society, June 22, 1883.) London, 1883, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 4, pp. 469-476. ---- In a Balcony. (Read at the Annual Meeting of the Browning Society, July 4, 1884.) London, 1884, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 5, pp. 499-502. Wall, Annie. -- Sordello's Story retold in prose. Boston, 1886, 8vo. West, E. D. -- One aspect of Browning's Villains. (Read at the 15th Meeting of the Browning Society, April 27, 1883.) London, 1883, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 4, pp. 411-434. Westcott, B. F. -- On some points in Browning's View of Life. A paper read before the Cambridge Browning Society, November, 1882. Cambridge, 1883, 8vo. Printed also in the Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 4, pp. 397-410. Whitehead, Miss C. M. -- Browning as a Teacher of the Nineteenth Century. Read at the 58th Meeting of the Browning Society, April 27, 1888. London, 1888, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. 10, pp. 237- 263.

Magazine Articles. Browning, Robert. -- Sharpe's London Magazine, vol. 8, 1849, pp. 60- 62, 122-127. -- Revue des Deux Mondes, by J. Milsand, 15 Aug. 1851, pp. 661-689. -- London Quarterly Review, vol. 6, 1856, pp. 493-501, vol. 22, p. 30, etc. -- Revue Contemporaine, by J. Milsand, vol. 27, 1856, pp. 511- 546. -- Fraser's Magazine, by J. Skelton, vol. 67, 1863, pp. 240-256; reprinted in "A Campaigner at Home", 1865. -- Victoria Magazine, by M. D. Conway, vol. 2, 1864, pp. 298-316. -- Contemporary Review, vol. 4, 1867, pp. 1-15, 133-148; same article, Eclectic Magazine, vol. 5 N.S., pp. 314-323, 501-513. -- Revue des Deux Mondes, by Louis Etienne, tom. 85, 1870, pp. 704-735. -- Appleton's Journal (with portrait), by R. H. Stoddard, vol. 6, 1871, pp. 533-536. -- Once a Week, vol. 9 N.S., 1872, pp. 164-167. -- Scribner's Monthly, by E. C. Stedman, vol. 9, 1874, pp. 167-183. -- Galaxy, by J. H. Browne, vol. 19, 1875, pp. 764-774. -- St. James's

168 Magazine, by T. Bayne, vol. 32, 1877, pp. 153-164. -- Dublin University Magazine (with portrait), vol. 3 N.S., 1878, pp. 322-335, 416-443. -- Gentleman's Magazine, by A. N. McNicoll, vol. 244, 1879, pp. 54-67. -- Congregationalist, vol. 8, 1879, pp. 915-922. -- International Review, by G. Barnett Smith, vol. 6, 1879, pp. 176-194. -- Literary World (Boston), by F. J. Furnivall, H. E. Scudder, etc., vol. 13, 1882, pp. 76-81. -- Critic, by J. H. Morse, vol. 3, 1883, pp. 263, 264. -- Contemporary Review, by Hon. Roden Noel, vol. 44, 1883, pp. 701-718; same article, Littell's Living Age, vol. 159, pp. 771-781. -- British Quarterly Review, vol. 80, 1884, pp. 1-28. -- Family Friend, by J. Fuller Higgs, vol. 18, 1887, pp. 10-13. -- Graphic, with portrait, Jan. 15, 1887. -- Athenaeum, Dec. 21, 1889, pp. 858-860. -- Atalanta, by Edmund Gosse, Feb. 1889, pp. 361-364. -- Atlantic Monthly, Feb. 1890, pp. 243-248. -- Contemporary Review, by the Rev. Stopford A. Brooke, Jan. 1890, pp. 141-152. -- Universal Review, by Gabriel Sarrazin, Feb. 1890, pp. 230-246. -- Art and Literature, with portrait, Feb. 1890, pp. 17-19. -- Congregational Review, by Ruth J. Pitt, Jan. 1890, pp. 57-66. -- Expository Times, by the Rev. Professor Salmond, Feb. 1890, pp. 110, 111. -- The Speaker, by Augustine Birrell, Jan. 4, 1890, pp. 16, 17. -- National Review, by H. D. Traill, Jan. 1890, pp. 592-597. -- Scots Magazine, Jan. 1890, pp. 131-136. -- Argosy, by E. F. Bridell-Fox, Feb. 1890, pp. 108-114. -- New Church Magazine, by C. E. Rowe, Feb. 1890, pp. 49-58. ---- `Agamemnon'. -- Edinburgh Review, vol. 147, 1878, pp. 409-436. -- Athenaeum, Oct. 27, 1877, pp. 525-527. -- Academy, by J. A. Symonds, Nov. 3, 1877, pp. 419, 420. -- Literary World (Boston), vol. 13, 1882, p. 419. ---- and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. -- Leisure Hour (with portraits), 1883, pp. 396-404. -- Manhattan, by K. M. Rowland, June 1884, pp. 553- 562. ---- and the Edinburgh Review. -- Reader, by Gerald Massey, Nov. 26, 1864, pp. 674, 675. ---- and the Epic of Psychology. -- London Quarterly Review, vol. 32, 1869, pp. 325-357. ---- and the Greek Drama. -- Manchester Quarterly, by A. S. Wilkins, vol. 2, 1883, pp. 377-390.

169 ---- and James Russell Lowell. -- New Englander, vol. 29, 1870, pp. 125-136. ---- and Tennyson. -- Eclectic Review, vol. 7 N.S., 1864, pp. 361-389. - - Leisure Hour, Feb. 1890, pp. 231-234. ---- `Another Way of Love'. -- Critic (New York), by F. L. Turnbull, Sept. 26, 1885, pp. 151, 152. ---- `Aristophanes' Apology'. -- London Quarterly Review, vol. 44, 1875, pp. 354-376. -- Academy, by J. A. Symonds, April 17, 1875, pp. 389, 390. -- Athenaeum, April 17, 1875, pp. 513, 514. ---- as a Preacher. -- Dark Blue, by E. D. West, vol. 2, 1872, pp. 171- 184, 305-319; same article, Littell's Living Age, vol. 3, pp. 707-723. ---- as a Religious Teacher. -- Month, by the Rev. John Rickaby, Feb. 1890, pp. 173-190. -- Good Words, by R. H. Hutton, Feb. 1890, pp. 87-93. ---- as a Teacher. In Memoriam. -- Gentleman's Magazine, by Mrs. Alexander Ireland, Feb. 1890, pp. 177-184. ---- as Theologian. -- Time, by H. W. Massingham, Jan. 1890, pp. 90- 96. ---- as a Writer of Plays. -- Fortnightly Review, by W. L. Courtney, vol. 33 N.S., 1883, pp. 888-900; same article, Eclectic Magazine, vol. 38 N.S., pp. 358-366. ---- `Balaustion's Adventure'. -- Contemporary Review, by Matthew Browne, vol. 18, 1871, pp. 284-296. -- Nation, by J. R. Dennett, vol. 13, 1871, pp. 178, 179. -- Fortnightly Review, by Sidney Colvin, vol. 10 N.S., 1871, pp. 478-490. -- Edinburgh Review, vol. 135, 1872, pp. 221-249. -- London Quarterly Review, vol. 37, 1871, pp. 346-368. -- Athenaeum, Aug. 12, 1871, pp. 199, 200. -- Penn Monthly, by R. E. Thompson, vol. 6, 1875, pp. 928-940. -- St. Paul's Magazine, by E. J. Hasell, vol. 12, 1873, pp. 680-699; vol. 13, pp. 49-66. -- Pioneer, Oct. 1887, pp. 159-162. ---- `Bells and Pomegranates'. -- Christian Remembrancer, vol. 11 N.S., 1846, pp. 316-330. -- People's Journal, by H. F. Chorley, vol. 2, 1847, pp. 38-40, 104-106. ---- Browning Society. -- Saturday Review, vol. 53, 1882, pp. 12, 13; vol. 58, 1884, pp. 721, 722. ---- `Childe Roland'. -- Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, by the

170 Rev. W. A. O'Conor, vol. 3, 1877, pp. 12-25. -- Critic (New York), by J. E. Cooke, vol. 8, 1886, pp. 201, 202, and by A. Bates, pp. 231, 232. ---- ---- `Childe Roland', `Childe Harold', and the `Sangrail'. -- Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, by John Mortimer, vol. 3, 1877, pp. 26- 31. ---- `Christmas Eve and Easter Day'. -- Prospective Review, vol. 6, 1850, pp. 267-279. -- Littell's Living Age (from the Examiner), vol. 25, pp. 403-409. -- The Germ, No. 4, by W. M. Rossetti, pp. 187-192. -- Day of Rest, by George MacDonald, vol. 1, 1873, pp. 34-36, 55, 56. ---- Clubs in the United States. -- Literary World (Boston), by H. Corson, vol. 14, 1883, p. 127. ---- Day with the Brownings at Pratolino. -- Scribner's Monthly, by E. C. Kinney, vol. 1, 1870, pp. 185-188. ---- `Dead in Venice'. (Verses.) -- Athenaeum, Dec. 21, 1889, p. 860. ---- The "Detachment" of. -- Athenaeum, Jan. 4, 1890, pp. 18, 19. ---- `Dramatic Idyls'. -- Fortnightly Review, by Grant Allen, vol. 26 N.S., 1879, pp. 149-154. -- Contemporary Review, by Mrs. Sutherland Orr, vol. 35, 1879, pp. 289-302. -- Saturday Review, June 21, 1879, pp. 774, 775. -- Fraser's Magazine, vol. 20 N.S., 1879, pp. 103-124. -- St. James's Magazine, by T. Bayne, vol. 8, fourth series, 1880, pp. 108-118. -- Athenaeum, May 10, 1879, pp. 593-595. -- Academy, by Frank Wedmore, May 10, 1879, pp. 403, 404. -- Athenaeum, July 10, 1880, pp. 39-41. -- Literary World, July 23, 1880, pp. 49-51. ---- `Dramatis Personae'. -- St. James's Magazine, by R. Bell, vol. 10, 1864, pp. 477-491. -- New Monthly Magazine, by T. F. Wedmore, vol. 133, 1865, pp. 186-194. -- Dublin University Magazine, vol. 64, 1864, pp. 573- 579. -- Eclectic Review, by E. Paxton Hood, vol. 7 N.S., 1864, pp. 62-72. ---- Early Writings of. -- Century, by E. W. Gosse, vol. 23, 1881, pp. 189-200. ---- `Ferishtah's Fancies'. -- Athenaeum, Dec. 6, 1884, pp. 725-727. -- Saturday Review, vol. 58, 1884, pp. 727, 728. -- Spectator, Dec. 6, 1884, pp. 1614-1616. -- Academy, by H. C. Beeching, Dec. 13, 1884, pp. 385, 386. -- Critic (New York), Dec. 13, 1884, p. 279. -- Oxford Magazine, vol. 3, 1885, pp. 161, 162.

171 ---- `Fifine at the Fair'. -- Old and New, by C. C. Everett, vol. 6, 1872, pp. 609-615. -- Canadian Monthly, by Goldwin Smith, vol. 2, 1872, pp. 285-287. -- Temple Bar, vol. 37, 1873, pp. 315-328. -- Literary World, July 12, 1872, pp. 17, 18, and July 19, pp. 42, 43. -- Fortnightly Review, by Sidney Colvin, vol. 12 N.S., 1872, pp. 118-120. -- Saturday Review, vol. 34, 1872, pp. 220, 221. ---- First Poem of. -- St. James's Magazine, vol. 7 N.S., 1871, pp. 485- 496. ---- Funeral of. -- Scots Magazine, by Elizabeth R. Chapman, Feb. 1890, pp. 216-223. ---- Handbook to the Works of, Orr's. -- Academy, by J. T. Nettleship, vol. 27, 1885, pp. 429-431. -- Athenaeum, Sept. 26, 1885, pp. 396, 397. ---- in 1869. -- Cornhill Magazine, vol. 19, 1869, pp. 249-256. ---- `In a Balcony'. -- Theatre, by B. L. Mosely, May 1, 1885, pp. 225- 230. ---- In Memoriam. -- New Review, by Edmund W. Gosse, Jan. 1890, pp. 91-96. ---- `Inn Album'. -- Macmillan's Magazine, by A. C. Bradley, vol. 33, 1876, pp. 347-354. -- Nation, by Henry James, junr., vol. 22, 1876, pp. 49, 50. -- International Review, by Bayard Taylor, vol. 3, 1876, pp. 402-404. -- Athenaeum, Nov. 27, 1875, pp. 701, 702. -- Academy, by J. A. Symonds, Nov. 27, 1875, pp. 543, 544. -- Spectator, December 11, 1875, pp. 1555- 1557. -- Examiner, Dec. 11, 1875, pp. 1389-1390. ---- in Westminster Abbey. -- Speaker, by Henry James, Jan. 4, 1890, pp. 10-12. ---- `Jocoseria'. -- National Review, by W. J. Courthope, vol. 1, 1883, pp. 548-561. -- Atlantic Monthly, vol. 51, 1883, pp. 840-845. -- Cambridge Review, vol. 4, 1883, pp. 352, 353. -- Gentleman's Magazine, by R. H. Shepherd, vol. 254, 1883, pp. 624-630. -- Academy, by J. A. Symonds, vol. 23, 1883, pp. 213, 214. -- Athenaeum, March 24, 1883, pp. 367, 368. -- Saturday Review, vol. 55, 1883, pp. 376, 377. -- Spectator, March 17, 1883, pp. 351-353. ---- Kingsland's. -- Literary Opinion, May 1, 1887. ---- `La Saisiaz'. `The Two Poets of Croisic'. -- Academy, by G. A.

172 Simcox, vol. 13, 1878, pp. 478-480. -- Athenaeum, May 25, 1878, pp. 661-664. -- Saturday Review, June 15, 1878, pp. 759, 760. ---- Love Poems of. -- Journal of Education, by Arthur Sidgwick, May 1, 1882, pp. 139-143. ---- Lyrical and Dramatic Poems. -- Literary World (Boston), Feb. 24, 1883, p. 58. ---- `Men and Women'. -- Bentley's Miscellany, vol. 39, 1856, pp. 64- 70. -- British Quarterly Review, vol. 23, 1856, pp. 151-180. -- Rambler, vol. 5 N.S., 1856, pp. 55-71. -- Christian Remembrancer, vol. 31 N.S., 1856, pp. 281-294; vol. 34 N.S., 1857, pp. 361-390. -- Dublin University Magazine, vol. 47, 1856, pp. 673-675. -- Fraser's Magazine, by G. Brimley, vol. 53, 1856, pp. 105-116. -- Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 6, 1856, pp. 21- 28. -- Westminster Review, vol. 9 N.S., 1856, pp. 290-296. ---- Note on. -- Art Review, by W. Mortimer, Jan. 1890, pp. 28-32. ---- `One Way of Love'. -- Literary World (Boston), by C. R. Corson, July 26, 1884, pp. 250, 251. ---- `Pacchiarotto'. -- Academy, by Edward Dowden, July 29, 1876, pp. 99, 100. -- Athenaeum, July 22, 1876, pp. 101, 102. ---- `Paracelsus'. -- New Monthly Magazine, by John Forster, vol. 46, 1836, pp. 289-308. -- Examiner, by John Forster, Sept. 6, 1835, pp. 563- 565. -- Theologian, vol. 2, 1845, pp. 276-282. -- Monthly Repository, by W. J. Fox, vol. 9 N.S., 1835, pp. 716-727. -- Fraser's Magazine, by J. Heraud, vol. 13, 1836, pp. 363-374. -- Leigh Hunt's Journal, vol. 2, 1835, pp. 405-408. -- Revue des Deux Mondes, by Philarete Chasles, tom. 22, 1840, pp. 127-133. ---- `Parleyings with Certain People'. -- Literary Opinion, March 1, 1887. ---- `Pauline'. -- Monthly Repository, by W. J. Fox, vol. 7 N.S., 1833, pp. 252-262. -- Athenaeum, April 6, 1833, p. 216. ---- Place of, in Literature. -- Contemporary Review, by Mrs. Sutherland Orr, vol. 23, 1874, pp. 934-965; same article, Littell's Living Age, vol. 122, pp. 67-85. ---- Plays and Poems. -- North American Review, by J. R. Lowell, vol. 66, 1848, pp. 357-400.

173 ---- Poems. -- British Quarterly Review, vol. 6, 1847, pp. 490-509. -- Eclectic Review, vol. 26 N.S., 1849, pp. 203-214. -- Eclectic Magazine, vol. 18, 1849, pp. 453-469. -- Christian Examiner, by C. C. Everett, vol. 48, 1850, pp. 361-372. -- Massachusetts Quarterly Review, vol. 3, 1850, pp. 347-385. -- Fraser's Magazine, vol. 43, 1851, pp. 170-182. -- Putnam's Monthly Magazine, vol. 7, 1856, pp. 372-381. -- North British Review, vol. 34, 1861, pp. 350-374. -- Chambers's Journal, vol. 19, 1863, pp. 91-95; vol. 20, pp. 39-41. -- National Review, vol. 17, 1863, pp. 417-446. -- Eclectic Review, by E. P. Hood, vol. 4 N.S., 1863, pp. 436-454; vol. 7 N.S., 1864, pp. 62-72. -- Edinburgh Review, vol. 120, 1864, pp. 537-565. -- Christian Examiner, by C. C. Everett, vol. 77, 1864, pp. 51-64. -- Quarterly Review, vol. 118, 1865, pp. 77-105. -- Nuova Antologia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, by Enrico Nencioni, July 1867, pp. 468-481. -- North British Review, by J. Hutchinson Stirling, vol. 49, 1868, pp. 353-408. -- Temple Bar, by Alfred Austin, vol. 26, 1869, pp. 316-333; vol. 27, pp. 170-186; vol. 28, pp. 33- 48. -- British Quarterly Review, vol. 49, 1869, pp. 435-459. -- Saint Paul's Magazine, by E. J. Hasell, vol. 7, 1871, pp. 257-276; same article, Eclectic Magazine, vol. 13 N.S., pp. 267-279, and in Littell's Living Age, vol. 108, pp. 155-166. -- Church Quarterly Review, by the Hon. and Rev. Arthur Lyttleton, vol. 7, 1878, pp. 65-92. -- Cambridge Review, vol. 3, 1881, pp. 126, 127. -- Scottish Review, vol. 2, 1883, pp. 349-358. -- London Quarterly Review, vol. 65, 1886, pp. 238-250. ---- `Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau'. -- New Englander, by J. S. Sewall, vol. 33, 1874, pp. 493-505. -- Examiner, Dec. 23, 1871, pp. 1267, 1268. -- Academy, by G. A. Simcox, Jan. 15, 1872, pp. 24-26. -- Literary World, Jan. 5, 1872, pp. 8, 9. ---- `Red Cotton Nightcap Country'. -- Nation, by J. R. Dennett, vol. 17, 1873, pp. 116-118. -- Contemporary Review, by Mrs. Sutherland Orr, vol. 22, 1873, pp. 87-106. -- Penn Monthly Magazine, vol. 4, 1873, pp. 657-661. -- Athenaeum, May 10, 1873, pp. 593, 594. ---- `Ring and the Book'. -- Athenaeum, Dec. 26, 1868, pp. 875, 876; March 20, 1869, pp. 399, 400. -- Edinburgh Review, vol. 130, 1869, pp. 164-186. -- Dublin Review, vol. 13 N.S., 1869, pp. 48-62. -- Chambers's Journal, July 24, 1869, pp. 473-476. -- Fortnightly Review, by John

174 Morley, vol. 5 N.S., 1869, pp. 331-343. -- Macmillan's Magazine, by J. A. Symonds, vol. 19, 1869, pp. 258-262, and by J. R. Mozley, pp. 544-552. -- North American Review, by E. J. Cutler, vol. 109, 1869, pp. 279-283. -- Nation, by J. R. Dennett, vol. 8, 1869, pp. 135, 136. -- Tinsley's Magazine, vol. 3, 1869, pp. 665-674. -- Christian Examiner, by J. W. Chadwick, vol. 86, 1869, pp. 295-315. -- Gentleman's Magazine, by James Thomson, vol. 251, 1881, pp. 682-695. -- St. James's Magazine, vol. 2 N.S., 1869, pp. 460-464. -- Saint Paul's, vol. 7, 1871, pp. 377-397; same article, Eclectic Magazine, vol. 13 N.S., pp. 400-412, and in Littell's Living Age, vol. 108, pp. 771-783. -- North British Review, vol. 51, 1870, pp. 97-126. -- Quarterly Review, vol. 126, 1869, pp. 328-359. ---- ---- Some of the Teachings of "The Ring and the Book". -- Poet- Lore, by F. B. Hornbrooke, July 1889, pp. 314-320. ---- Science of. -- Poet-Lore, by Edward Berdoe, Aug. 15, 1889, pp. 353-362. ---- Selections from. -- London Quarterly Review, by Frank T. Marzials, vol. 20, 1863, pp. 527-532. -- Literary World, May 19, 1883, p. 157. ---- Sequence of Sonnets on death of. -- Fortnightly Review, by Algernon C. Swinburne, Jan. 1890, pp. 1-4. ---- Some Thoughts on. -- Macmillan's Magazine, by M. A. Lewis, vol. 46, 1882, pp. 205-219; same article, Littell's Living Age, vol. 154, pp. 238-246. ---- Sonnets to. -- Macmillan's Magazine, by Aubrey de Vere, Feb. 1890, p. 258. -- Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, by Sir Theodore Martin, Jan. 1890, p. 112. -- Household Words, vol. 4, 1852, p. 213. ---- Sonnets of. -- Manchester Quarterly, by Benjamin Sagar, vol. 6, 1887, pp. 148-159. ---- `Sordello'. -- Fraser's Magazine, by E. Dowden, vol. 76, pp. 518- 530. -- Macmillan's Magazine, by R. W. Church, vol. 55, 1887, pp. 241- 253. ---- ---- `Sordello' at the East End. -- Journal of Education, July 1, 1885, pp. 281-283. ---- Stories from, Holland's. -- Academy, by J. A. Blaikie, vol. 22, 1882,

175 pp. 287, 288. ---- `Strafford: a Tragedy'. -- Edinburgh Review, vol. 65, 1837, pp. 132-151. ---- Study of. -- Overland Monthly, by Caroline Le Conte, vol. 3, 2nd series, 1884, pp. 645-651. -- Literary World (Boston), vol. 17, 1886, p. 44. ---- Two Sonnets to. -- New Monthly Magazine, vol. 48, 1836, p. 48. ---- Types of Womanhood. -- Woman's World, by Annie E. Ireland, Nov. 1889, pp. 47-50. ---- Verses on. -- Art Review (with portrait), by William Sharp, Feb. 1890, pp. 33-36. -- Murray's Magazine, by Rev. H. D. Rawnsley, Feb. 1890, pp. 145-150. -- Belford's Magazine (poem of 20 six-line stanzas), by William Sharp, March 1890. ---- Wordsworth and Tennyson. -- National Review, by Walter Bagehot, vol. 19, 1864, pp. 27-67; reprinted in "Literary Studies", 1879; same article, Eclectic Magazine, vol. 1 N.S., pp. 273-284, 415-427, and in Littell's Living Age, vol. 84, pp. 3-24. VII. Chronological List of Works.

1833 Pauline

1835 Paracelsus

1837 Strafford

1840 Sordello

1841 Pippa Passes. (Bells and Pomegranates, No. 1)

1842 King Victor and King Charles. (Bells and Pomegranates, No. 2) Dramatic Lyrics. (Bells and Pomegranates, No. 3) Cavalier Tunes. I. Marching Along. II. Give a Rouse. III. My Wife Gertrude. Italy and France. I. Italy. II. France. Camp and Cloister. I. Camp (French). II. Cloister (Spanish). In a Gondola. Artemis Prologuizes. Waring. Queen

176 Worship. I. Rudel and the Lady of Tripoli. II. Cristina. Madhouse Cells. I. Johannes Agricola. II. Porphyria. Through the Metidja. The Pied Piper of Hamelin.

1843 The Return of the Druses. (Bells and Pomegranates, No. 4) A Blot in the 'Scutcheon. (Bells and Pomegranates, No. 5)

1844 Colombe's Birthday. (Bells and Pomegranates, No. 6)

1845 Dramatic Romances and Lyrics. (Bells and Pomegranates, No. 7) How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix. Pictor Ignotus. Italy in England. England in Italy. The Lost Leader. The Lost Mistress. Home Thoughts from Abroad. The Tomb at St. Praxed's. Garden Fancies. I. The Flower's Name. II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis. France and Spain. I. The Laboratory. II. The Confessional. The Flight of the Duchess. Earth's Immortalities. Song. The Boy and the Angel. Night and Morning. Claret and Tokay. Saul. (Part 1) Time's Revenges. The Glove.

1846 Luria. & A Soul's Tragedy. (Bells and Pomegranates, No. 8)

1850 Christmas Eve and Easter Day.

1852 Introductory Essay to Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

1855 Men and Women.

Vol. 1. 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 Fireside. Any Wife to any Husband. An Epistle of Karshish. Mesmerism. A Serenade at the Villa. My Star. Instans Tyrannus. A Pretty Woman. "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came". Respectability. A Light Woman. The Statue and the Bust. Love in a Life. Life in a Love. How it strikes a Contemporary. The Last Ride Together. The Patriot. Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha. Bishop Blougram's Apology. Memorabilia.

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Vol. 2. Andrea del Sarto. Before. After. In Three Days. In a Year. Old Pictures in Florence. In a Balcony. Saul. "De Gustibus ----" Women and Roses. Protus. Holy-Cross Day. The Guardian Angel. Cleon. The Twins. Popularity. The Heretic's Tragedy. Two in the Campagna. A Grammarian's Funeral. One Way of Love. Another Way of Love. "Transcendentalism". Misconceptions. One Word More.

1864 Dramatis Personae. James Lee's Wife. Gold Hair. The Worst of It. Dis Aliter Visum. Too Late. Abt Vogler. Rabbi Ben Ezra. A Death in the Desert. Caliban upon Setebos. Confessions. May and Death. Prospice. Youth and Art. A Face. A Likeness. Mr. Sludge the Medium. Apparent Failure. Epilogue.

1868-69 The Ring and the Book.

1871 Balaustion's Adventure. Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau.

1872 Fifine at the Fair.

1873 Red Cotton Nightcap Country.

1875 Aristophanes' Apology. The Inn Album.

1876 Pacchiarotto, and other Poems. Prologue. Of Pacchiarotto. At the "Mermaid". House. Shop. Pisgah Sights, I. and II. Fears and Scruples. Natural Magic. Magical Nature. Bifurcation. Numpholeptos. Appearances. St. Martin's Summer. Herve Riel. (Reprinted from Cornhill Magazine, March 1871.) A Forgiveness. Cenciaja. Filippo Baldinucci. Epilogue.

1877 The Agamemnon of Aeschylus.

1878 La Saisiaz. & The Two Poets of Croisic.

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1879-80 Dramatic Idyls.

Series 1. Martin Relph. Pheidippides. Halbert and Hob. Ivan Ivanovitch. Tray. Ned Bratts.

Series 2. Proem. Echetlos. Clive. Muleykeh. Pietro of Abano. Doctor ----. Pan and Luna. Epilogue.

1883 Jocoseria. Wanting is -- What? Donald. Solomon and Balkis. Cristina and Monaldeschi. Mary Wollstonecraft and Fuseli. Adam, Lilith, and Eve. Ixion. Jochanan Hakkadosh. Never the Time and the Place. Pambo.

1884 Ferishtah's Fancies. Prologue. Ferishtah's Fancies: 1. The Eagle. 2. Melon-Seller. 3. Shah Abbas. 4. The Family. 5. The Sun. 6. Mihrab Shah. 7. A Camel-Driver. 8. Two Camels. 9. Cherries. 10. Plot-Culture. 11. A Pillar at Sebzevah. 12. A Bean-stripe; also Apple-Eating. Epilogue.

1887 Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day. Apollo and the Fates -- a Prologue. I. With Bernard de Mandeville. II. With Daniel Bartoli. III. With Christopher Smart. IV. With George Bubb Dodington. V. With Francis Furini. VI. With Gerard de Lairesse. VII. With Charles Avison. John Fust and his Friends -- an Epilogue.

1890 Asolando. Prologue. Rosny. Dubiety. Now. Humility. Poetics. Summum Bonum. A Pearl, a Girl. Speculative. White Witchcraft. Bad Dreams. Inapprehensiveness. Which? The Cardinal and the Dog. The Pope and the Net. The Bean-Feast. Muckle-mouth Meg. Arcades Ambo. The Lady and the Painter. Ponte dell' Angelo, Venice. Beatrice Signorini. Flute- music, with an Accompaniment. "Imperante Augusto natus est ----" Development. Rephan. Reverie. Epilogue.

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