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A compact handbook surveys a major poet's oeuvre, offering an opening account of general characteristics, versification, and thematic preoccupations, followed by descriptive notes and brief analyses arranged both historically and by thematic groupings. It summarizes individual poems and plays, treats long sequences and translations, and groups argumentative, didactic, critical, and emotional pieces, with attention to imagery, structure, and allusions. Prefatory material documents editorial revisions and bibliographical apparatus; indices and a bibliography support reference use. The author acknowledges limits of arrangement while aiming to guide readers through the poems with concise commentary and cross-references.

It has been wrongly inferred from the passage in question that Mr. Browning admits the pretensions of science to solve the problems of the universe.

[123]

The "goddess-sent plague" woven by Lachesis into the destiny of Admetus was a vengeance of Artemis which befell him on the day of his marriage. He had slighted her by omitting the usual sacrifice, and in punishment of this she sent a crowd of serpents to meet him in the nuptial chamber; but Apollo effected a reconciliation between them.

[124]

He had, as a young man, so great an admiration for one of Bartoli's works, "De' Simboli trasportati al Morale," that when he travelled he always carried it with him.

[125]

Her reply was that if she possessed any influence over M. de Lorraine she would never use it to make him do anything so contrary to his honour and to his interests; she already sufficiently reproached herself for the marriage to which his friendship for her had impelled him; and would rather be "Marianne" to the end of her days than become Duchess on such conditions The reply has been necessarily modified in Mr. Browning's more poetic rendering of the scene

[126]

Indented,—for want of writing materials,—with a key on the wainscot of his cell.

[127]

Created Lord Melcombe a year before his death: sufficiently known by his diary from March, 1748, to Feb., 1761. See its character in the Preface to the original edition by his relation, Henry Penruddocke Wyndham, 1784. Other notices will be found in "Edgeworth on Education," Belsham's "George II.," and Hawkins' "Life of Johnson."

[128]

Furini is also honourably mentioned in Pilkington's "Dictionary of Painters," revised by Fuseli, and till the middle of the present century the authoritative work on the subject. It is stated in the edition of 1805 that "many of his paintings are in Florence, which are deemed to add honour to the valuable collections of the nobility of that city."

[129]

The allusion in vol. xvi. p. 195, to the old artificer who could make men "believe" instead of merely "fancy" that what he presented to them was real, refers especially to the Greek painter Zeuxis; but it is suggested by the generally realistic character of Greek art.

[130]

Described at p. 253 and onwards under the heading "Painter-like Beauty in the Open Air."

[131]

The last line and a half of the eighth stanza was directly suggested by the tragedy of Æschylus; the thunderstorm by another version of the Promethean myth.

[132]

See Shelley's translation from Moschus.

[133]

Battle of Arbela.

[134]

These lines were published in 1886 in the little volume entitled "The New Amphion."

[135]

Organist of Newcastle about 1750; author of "An Essay on Musical Expression" and other works.

[136]

The "Relfe" spoken of in this connection was Mr. Browning's music-master: a learned contrapuntist.

[137]

In interpreting this passage I have somewhat exceeded the letter, but only to emphasize the spirit of Mr. Browning's words.

[138]

From an MS. copy formerly in the possession of Mr. Browning's father.

[139]

The wealth to which he alludes was justly imputed to him, as the real Fust was a goldsmith's son.

[140]

The relation of John Fust to the popular legend is pleasantly set forth in Mr. Sutherland Edwards' little book, "The Faust Legend: Its Origin and Development."

NOTE.

The following note shows Mr. Browning in a more pronounced attitude towards the opponents of the new Greek spelling than does that which, by his desire, I inserted in my first edition; but the last mood was in this case only a natural development of the first:—

"I have just noticed in this month's 'Nineteenth Century' that it is inquired by a humorous objector to the practice of spelling (under exceptional conditions) Greek proper names as they are spelt in Greek literature, why the same principle should not be adopted by 'Ægyptologists, Hebraists, Sanscrittists, Accadians, Moabites, Hittites, and Cuneiformists?' Adopt it, by all means, whenever the particular language enjoyed by any fortunate possessor of these shall, like Greek, have been for about three hundred years insisted upon in England as an acquisition of paramount importance, at school and college, for every aspirant to distinction in learning, even at the cost of six or seven years' study—a sacrifice considered well worth making for even an imperfect acquaintance with 'the most perfect language in the world.' Further, it will be adopted whenever the letters substituted for those in ordinary English use shall do no more than represent to the unscholarly what the scholar accepts without scruple when, for the hundredth time, he reads the word which, for once, he has occasion to write in English, and which he concludes must be as euphonic as the rest of a language renowned for euphony. And, finally, the practice will be adopted whenever the substituted letters effect no sort of organic change so as to jostle the word from its pride of place in English verse or prose. 'Themistokles' fits in quietly everywhere, with or without the k: but in a certain poetical translation I remember, by a young friend, of the Anabasis, beginning thus felicitously, 'Cyrus the Great and Artaxerxes (Whose temper bloodier than a Turk's is) Were children both of the mild, pious, And happy monarch, King Darius,'—who fails to see that, although a correct 'Kuraush' may pass, yet 'Darayavush' disturbs the metre as well as the rhyme? It seems, however, that 'Themistokles' may be winked at: not so the 'harsh and subversive Kirke.' But let the objector ask somebody with no knowledge to subvert, how he supposes 'Circe' is spelt in Greek, and the answer will be 'with a soft c.' Inform him that no such letter exists, and he guesses, 'Then with s, if there be anything like it' Tell him that, to eye and ear equally, his own k answers the purpose, and you have, at all events, taught him that much, if little enough—and why does he live unless to learn a little?"

"R. B."

Jan. 4, 1866.

A CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BROWNING'S WORKS.


1833. PAULINE; A FRAGMENT OF A CONFESSION. 8vo. Saunders and Otley, 1833. Dated at the end "Richmond, Oct. 22, 1832." Reprinted in the six vol. editions of the Poetical Works, 1868, and later. Also reprinted from the original edition and edited by T. J. Wise, 1886.

1834. SONNET, "Eyes calm beside thee (Lady couldst thou know!") Dated Aug. 17, 1834, and signed "Z." Monthly Repository, vol. viii., N.S., 1834, p. 712. Not reprinted by Mr. Browning.

1835. PARACELSUS. By Robert Browning. 8vo. Effingham Wilson, 1835. Reprinted in Poems, 2 vols. 1849, and in Poetical Works later, but without Preface, dated 15th March, 1835.

1835. THE KING. "A king lived long ago." 54 lines signed "Z," in the Monthly Repository, vol. ix., N.S., 1835, pp. 707-8. Afterwards given in Pippa Passes (sc. I, act iii.) with six additional lines.

1836. PORPHYRIA. "The rain set early in to-night." Sixty lines signed "Z," in Monthly Repository, vol. x., N.S., 1836, pp. 43-4. Afterwards appeared in Bells and Pomegranates under the heading "Madhouse Cells II." Was called "Porphyria's Lover" in the Works, 1863 and after.

1836. JOHANNES AGRICOLA. "There's Heaven above; and night by night." Sixty lines signed "Z," in Monthly Repository, vol. x., N.S., 1836, pp. 45-6. Reprinted in Bells and Pomegranates under the heading "Madhouse Cells I."

1836. LINES. "Still ailing, wind? wilt be appeased or no?" Six stanzas signed "Z," in the Monthly Repository, vol. x., N.S., 1836, pp. 270-71. Reappeared in Dramatis Personæ (1864) as the first six stanzas of section vi. of "James Lee."

1837. STRAFFORD: AN HISTORICAL TRAGEDY. By Robert Browning. 8vo. Longmans, 1837. Acted at Covent Garden Theatre, May 1, 1837. Reprinted without preface in Poetical Works, 863, and later. Acting edition, for the North London Collegiate School for Girls, 1882, 8vo. An edition (including preface of 1837) with notes and preface by Miss E. H. Hickey, and introduction by S. R. Gardiner, LL.D., 1884, 8vo.

1840. SORDELLO. By Robert Browning. 8vo. E. Moxon, 1840. Revised edition with prefatory letter to J. Milsand, in Poetical Works, 3 vols. 1863, and later.

1841-6. BELLS AND POMEGRANATES. Eight numbers in wrappers, Rl. 8vo., 1841-46, as follows:—

1841. No. 1. PIPPA PASSES. By Robert Browning. London, E. Moxon, 1841.

1842. No. 2. KING VICTOR AND KING CHARLES. By Robert Browning. London, E. Moxon, 1842.

1842. No. 3. DRAMATIC LYRICS. By Robert Browning, London, E. Moxon, 1842.

Contents:

Cavalier Times. I. Marching Along, p. 3.—II. Give a Rouse, p. 3.—III. My Wife Gertrude, p. 3. [III. afterwards "Boot and Saddle."]

Italy and France. I. Italy ["My last Duchess."]—II. France ["Count Gismond"], p. 4.

Camp and Cloister. I. Camp (French), p. 5.—II. Cloister (Spanish), p. 6.

In a Gondola, p. 7.

Artemis Prologuizes, p. 9.

Waring. I. "What's becomes of Waring?"—II. "When I last saw Waring," p. 10.

Queen Worship. I. Rudel and the Lady of Tripoli.—II. Cristina, p. 12.

Madhouse Cells. I. Johannes Agricola [of 1836.] II. Porphyria [of 1836], p. 13.

Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr, p. 14.

The Pied Piper of Hamelin, p. 14.

1843. No. 4. THE RETURN OF THE DRUSES. A Tragedy in five acts. By Robert Browning. London, E. Moxon, 1843.

1843. No. 5. A BLOT IN THE 'SCUTCHEON. A Tragedy in three acts. By Robert Browning. London, E. Moxon, 1843. Acted at Drury Lane Theatre, Feb. 11, 1843.

1844. No. 6. COLOMBE'S BIRTHDAY; A Play in five acts. By Robert Browning. London, E. Moxon, 1844. Acted at the Haymarket, April 25, 1853.

1845. No. 7. DRAMATIC ROMANCES AND LYRICS By Robert Browning. London, E. Moxon, 1845.

Contents:

How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, p. 3.

Pictor Ignotus. Florence, 15—, p. 4.

Italy in England. [Called "The Italian in England" in the Poems, 1849], p. 4.

England in Italy. [Called "The Englishman in Italy" in Poems, 1849], p. 5.

The Lost Leader, p. 8.

The Lost Mistress, p. 8.

Home Thoughts from Abroad. I. "Oh, to be in England."—II. "Here's to Nelson's Memory." [Put after Claret and Tokay, in Poet. Works, 1863, under "Nationality in Drinks."]—III. "Nobly, nobly Cape St. Vincent," p. 8. ["Home Thoughts from the Sea."]

The Tomb at St. Praxed's, p. 9.

Garden Fancies. I. The Flower's Name.—II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis, p. 10.

France and Spain. I. The Laboratory (Ancien Régime).—II. The Confessional, p. 11.

The Flight of the Duchess, p. 12.

Earth's Immortalities. I. "See, as the prettiest graves."—II. "So the year's done with," p. 19.

Song. "Nay, but you, who do not love her," p. 19.

The Boy and the Angel. [A fresh couplet added on republication in Poet. Works, 1868,] p. 19.

Night and Morning. I. Night.—II. Morning. [Called "Meeting at Night" and "Parting at Morning" in 1863], p. 20.

Claret and Tokay. I. "My heart sunk with our Claret-flask." II. "Up jumped Tokay on our table." [These grouped together, with "Here's to Nelson's Memory," as "Nationality in Drinks," No. 37 in Poet. Works, 1863,] p. 20.

Saul [Part the First, only; completed in Men and Women, 1855,] p. 21.

Time's Revenges, p. 22.

The Glove. (Peter Ronsard loquitur), p 23.

1846. No. 8, and Last. LURIA; and A SOUL'S TRAGEDY. By Robert Browning. London, E. Moxon, 1846.

Luria. A Tragedy in five acts, p. 2.

A Soul's Tragedy. Part First, being what was called the Poetry of Chiappino's Life; and Part Second, its Prose. [With Preface to A Soul's Tragedy not reprinted], p. 21.

1844. THE LABORATORY (Ancien Régime). By Robert Browning, in Hood's Magazine, vol. i., 1844, pp. 513-14. Reprinted in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (Bells and Pomegranates, No. 7), 1845, as the first of two poems called France and Spain.

1844. CLARET AND TOKAY. By Robert Browning. ["My heart sunk with our Claret-flask," and "Up jumped Tokay on our table"], in Hood's Magazine, vol. i., 1844, p. 525. Reprinted in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (Bells and Pomegranates, No. 7), 1845.

1844. GARDEN FANCIES. By Robert Browning. I. The Flower's Name.—II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis. In Hood's Magazine, vol. ii., pp. 140-42, 1844. Revised and enlarged in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (Bells and Pom., No. 7), 1845.

1844. THE BOY AND THE ANGEL. By Robert Browning. In Hood's Magazine, vol. ii., pp. 140-42. Enlarged in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (Bells and Pomegranates, No. 7), 1845.

1845. THE TOMB AT ST. PRAXED'S (ROME 15—). By Robert Browning. In Hood's Magazine, vol. iii., pp. 237-9, 1845. Enlarged in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (Bells and Pomegranates, No. 7) in same year. Reappeared in Works, 1863, and after, with the title "The Bishop Orders his Tomb in St. Praxed's Church."

1845. THE FLIGHT OF THE DUCHESS. By Robert Browning. Part the first, in Hood's Magazine, vol. iii., pp. 313-18, 1845. Part II. appeared when the first part was reprinted in Bells and Pomegranates, No. 7, in the same year, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics.

1849. POEMS BY ROBERT BROWNING. A New Edition [but the first collection under a collective title]. 2 vols., 8vo. Chapman and Hall, 1849.

Contents: vol. i. Paracelsus, p. 1. Pippa Passes, a Drama, p. 163. King Victor and King Charles, a Tragedy, p. 231. Colombe's Birthday, a Play, p. 302.

Vol. ii. A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, a Tragedy, p. 1. The Return of the Druses, a Tragedy, p. 61. Luria, a Tragedy, p. 139. A Soul's Tragedy, p. 211. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, p. 253; 38 of the 41 pieces in Bells and Pomegranates, Nos. 3 and 7, the three omitted being Claret, Tokay, and Here's to Nelson's Memory.

1850. CHRISTMAS-EVE AND EASTER-DAY. A Poem. By Robert Browning. 8vo. Chapman and Hall, 1850. Reprinted in Works, 1863, and after.

1852. Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley. With an Introductory ESSAY BY ROBERT BROWNING. London, E. Moxon, 1852. 8vo. [The Essay is on Shelley—not on the "Letters," which were afterwards discovered to be spurious, with one exception.] The Essay was reprinted in the Browning Society's Papers, Part I., 1881. Edited by Dr. F. J. Furnivall. Another reprint, edited by W Tyas Harden, appeared in 1888, 8vo.

1854. Two POEMS. By Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. 8vo. London, Chapman and Hall, 1854. Price Sixpence. The poem by Robert Browning here is "The Twins," and is dated "Rome, March 30th, 1854." Reprinted in Men and Women, 1855, and in Works, 1863 and after. The "Two Poems" were printed by Miss Arabella Barrett for sale at a bazaar in aid of a "Refuge for Young Destitute Girls." Mrs. Browning's contribution was "A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London."

1855. MEN AND WOMEN. By Robert Browning. In two vols. 8vo. London, Chapman and Hall.

  • Contents of Vol. II.:
  • Andrea del Sarto, p. 1.
  • Before, p. 15.
  • After, p. 19.
  • In Three Days, p. 21.
  • In a Year, p. 24.
  • Old Pictures in Florence, p. 30.
  • In a Balcony, p. 49.
  • Saul, p. 111.
  • "De Gustibus," p. 147.
  • Women and Roses, p. 150.
  • Protus, p. 154.
  • Holy-Cross Day, p. 158.
  • The Guardian Angel, p 167.
  • Cleon, p. 171.
  • The Twins, p. 190.
  • Popularity, p. 193.
  • The Heretic's Tragedy, p. 198.
  • Two in the Campagna, p. 205.
  • A Grammarian's Funeral, p. 210.
  • One Way of Love, p. 218.
  • Another Way of Love, p. 220.
  • "Transcendentalism" p. 223.
  • Misconceptions, p. 227.
  • One Word More. To E. B. B., p. 229.

1856. BEN KARSHOOK'S WISDOM. By Robert Browning. Twenty lines in The Keepsake for 1856, edited by Miss Power. Never reprinted by Mr. Browning. The poem seems to be alluded to in "One Word More."

1857. MAY AND DEATH. By Robert Browning. In The Keepsake for 1857. Reprinted in Dramatis Personæ, 1864, and in Works 1868, and after.

1863. THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. Third edition. Three vols., 8vo. London, Chapman and Hall, 1863. No new poems in this collection. It was re-issued as "Fourth Edition" in 1865.

  • Contents: Vol. I.
  • LYRICS.
           Cavalier Times:—     
I. Marching Along, p. 1.
II. Give a Rouse, p. 2.
III. Boot and Saddle, p. 3.
  • The Lost Leader, p. 4.
  • How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, p. 6.
  • Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kader, p. 9.
           Nationality in Drinks:—
I. Claret, p. 11.
II. Tokay, p. 11.
III. Beer (Nelson), p. 12.
Garden Fancies:—
I. The Flower's Name, p. 13.
II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis, p. 15.
III. Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, p. 18.
  • ROMANCES.

  • Incident of the French Camp, p. 156
  • The Patriot. An Old Story, p. 158.
  • My Last Duchess. Ferrara, p. 159.
  • Count Gismond. Aix in Provence, p. 162.
  • The Boy and the Angel, p. 167.
  • Instans Tyrannus, p. 171.
  • Mesmerism, p. 174.
  • The Glove, p. 180.
  • Time's Revenge, p. 187.
  • The Italian in England, p. 189.
  • The Englishman in Italy—Piano di Sorrento, p. 195.
  • In a Gondola, p. 205.
  • Waring, p. 215.
  • The Twins, p. 225.
  • A Light Woman, p. 226.
  • The Last Ride together, p. 229.
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin; a Child's Story, p. 234.
  • The Flight of the Duchess, 246.
  • A Grammarian's Funeral, p. 278.
  • Johannes Agricola in Meditation, p. 284.
  • The Heretic's Tragedy—A Middle-Age Interlude, p. 286.
  • Holy-Cross Day, p. 291.
  • Protus, p. 297.
  • The Statue and the Bust, p. 299.
  • Porphyria's Lover, p. 310.
  • "Child Roland to the Dark Tower came," p. 312.
  • Contents of Vol. II.
  • TRAGEDIES AND OTHER PLAYS.

  • Pippa Passes—A Drama, p. 1.
  • King Victor and King Charles—A Tragedy, p. 68.
  • The Return of the Druses—A Tragedy, p. 140.
  • A Blot in the 'Scutcheon—A Tragedy, p. 216.
  • Colombe's Birthday—A Play, p. 275.
  • Luria—A Tragedy, p. 357.
  • A Soul's Tragedy, p. 428.
  • In a Balcony—A Scene, p. 468.
  • Strafford—A Tragedy, p. 503.
  • Contents of Vol. III.

  • Paracelsus, p. 1.
  • Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, p. 163.
  • Sordello, p. 252.

1863. SELECTIONS FROM THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. 8vo. London, Chapman and Hall, 1863. The editors of this first selection were John Foster and B. W. Procter ("Barry Cornwall"). The volume was re-issued in 1869 with the imprint of Smith, Elder & Co.

1864. DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. By Robert Browning. 8vo. London, Chapman and Hall, 1864. Second edition published same year.

Three of the above poems were reprinted from advance sheets in the Atlantic Monthly (Boston, U. S.), vol. xiii., 1864, viz., Gold Hair, May, pp. 596-599; Prospice, May, p. 694; Under the Cliff (part of James Lee), May, pp. 737-8.

1864. ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE. Eight lines in the Royal Academy Catalogue for 1864, in F. Leighton's (now P.R.A.) picture so named. First collected in Poetical Works, 1868, under the title of "Eurydice to Orpheus, a Picture by Fred Leighton, A.R.A."

1864. POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. Fourth edition. A reprint of the Third edition (which see under "1863").

1865. A SELECTION FROM THE WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. Square post 8vo. "Moxon's Miniature Poets," E. Moxon & Co., 1865. With Dedication to Alfred Tennyson; and a photographic portrait of Robert Browning.

1866. A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 8vo. London, Chapman and Hall, 1866. EDITED by Robert Browning, and has a PREFACE signed "R. B.," and dated "London, November, 1865."

1866. Last Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 8vo. London, Chapman & Hall, 1862. THE DEDICATION ("To Grateful Florence," etc.), and "ADVERTISEMENT" (dated "London, February, 1862"), written by Robert Browning. See Browning Soc. Papers [additions to Bibliography], Parts I. and II., 1881, pp. 111, 162.

1868. THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. Six vols. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1868. There is only one new piece in this collection, viz., Deaf and Dumb; written for a marble group of two children by T. Woolner in the International Exhibition of 1862.

  • Contents of Vol. I.

  • Pauline, p. 1.
  • Paracelsus, p. 43.
  • Strafford, p. 207.
  • Contents of Vol. II.

  • Sordello, p. 1.
  • Pippa Passes, p. 219.
  • Contents of Vol. V.
    •  
  • A Soul's Tragedy, p. 1.
  • Luria, p. 43.
  • Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, p. 115.
  • Men and  Women:—
    • "Transcendentalism; a Poem in Twelve Books," p. 207.
    • How it strikes a Contemporary, p. 209.
    • Artemis Prologizes, p. 213.
    • An Epistle (Karshish), p. 218.
    • Johannes Agricola in Meditation, p. 229.
    • Pictor Ignotus, p. 231.
    • Fra Lippo Lippi, p. 234.
    • Andrea del Sarto, p. 248.
    • The Bishop orders his Tomb at St. Praxed's Church, p. 257.
    • Bishop Blougram's Apology, p. 262.
    • Cleon, p. 299.
    • Rudel to the Lady of Tripoli, p. 311.
    • One Word More, p. 313.

1868-9. THE RING AND THE BOOK. By Robert Browning. In four vols., 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., vols. i., ii., 1868; vols. iii., iv., 1869. The volumes were issued one by one, between November 1868 and February 1869. A "second edition," four volumes, appeared 1869.

1871. HERVÉ RIEL. In the Cornhill Magazine, March, 1871, pp. 257-60. Is dated "Croisic, Sept. 30th, 1867." Reprinted in Pacchiarotto, &c., 1876.

1871. BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE: INCLUDING A TRANSCRIPT FROM EURIPIDES. By Robert Browning. 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1871. With dedication to the Countess Cowper dated July 22, 1871. A third edition appeared in 1881. The Last Adventure of Balaustion, in Aristophanes' Apology, &c., 1875, in a sequel to this work.

1871. PRINCE HOHENSTIEL-SCHWANGAU: SAVIOUR OF SOCIETY. By Robert Browning. 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1871.

1872. FIFINE AT THE FAIR. By Robert Browning. 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1872.

1872. SELECTIONS FROM THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1872. With a preface dated "London, May 14th, 1872." "Dedicated to Alfred Tennyson."

1872. THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. (The Tauchnitz selection). Two vols., 8vo. Leipzig; "Collection of British Authors." As this is a "copyright edition," the selection must have been either made or sanctioned by Mr. Browning.

1872-4. COMPLETE WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. A reprint from the latest English edition. 8vo. Chicago. Nos. 1-19 of the "Official Guide of the Chicago and Alton R.R. and Monthly Reprint and Advertiser." Edited by the manager of the railway, Mr. James Charlton. A copy is in the British Museum.

1873. RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY, OR TURF AND TOWERS. By Robert Browning. 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1873. Dated at the end "January 23, 1873." Dedicated "To Miss Thackeray."

1875. ARISTOPHANES' APOLOGY, INCLUDING A TRANSCRIPT FROM EURIPIDES, BEING THE LAST ADVENTURE OF BALAUSTION. By Robert Browning. 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1875. The "Transcript" is "Herakles."

1875. THE INN ALBUM. By Robert Browning. 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1875.

A translation of this work into German by E. Leo: "Das Fremdenbuch," Hamburg, 1877.

1876. PACCHIAROTTO AND HOW HE WORKED IN DISTEMPER: WITH OTHER POEMS. By Robert Browning. 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1876.

  • Contents.

  • Prologue. ("O the old wall here.") [Called "A Wall" in the selection of 1880], p. 1.
  • Of Pacchiarotto and how he worked in Distemper, p. 4.
  • At the "Mermaid," p. 47.
  • House, p. 60.
  • Shop, p. 64.
  • Pisgah-Sights, I., p. 75.
  • Pisgah-Sights, II., p. 78.
  • Fears and Scruples, p. 83.
  • Natural Magic, p. 88.
  • Magical Nature, p. 90.
  • Bifurcation, p. 91.
  • Numpholeptos, p. 95.
  • Appearances, p. 106.
  • St. Martin's Summer, p. 108
  • Hervé Riel, p. 117.
  • A Forgiveness, p. 131.
  • Cenciaja, p. 162.
  • Filippo Baldinucci on the Privilege of Burial, p. 184
  • Epilogue ["'The Poets pour us wine,'"] p. 223.

1877. THE AGAMEMNON OF ÆSCHYLUS, transcribed by ROBERT BROWNING. 8vo., Smith, Elder & Co., 1877, with preface dated London, October 1st, 1877.

1877. FAVOURITE POEMS. By Robert Browning. [A selection]. Illustrated, pp. 96, 16mo. Boston, James R. Osgood & Co., 1877. [The Vest-Pocket Series of Standard and Popular Authors].

1878. LA SAISIAZ: THE TWO POETS OF CROISIC. By Robert Browning. 8vo. Smith, Elder & Co., 1878. "Dedicated to Mrs. Sutherland Orr." La Saisiaz is dated "November 9th, 1877," and The Two Poets of Croisic, "January 15th, 1878." The Proem to the Two Poets of Croisic was named "Apparitions" in the Selections of 1880.

1879. "OH LOVE, LOVE." Two Stanzas—eighteen lines translated from the Hippolytus of Euripides, contributed to Mr. J. P. Mahaffy's Euripides, p. 115, Macmillan, 1879. Not included in any collection of Robert Browning's Poems. Reprinted in Browning Soc. (Bibliography) Papers, pt. 1, 1881, p. 69.

1879. DRAMATIC IDYLS. By Robert Browning. Post 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1879.

  • Contents.

  • Martin Relph, p. 1.
  • Pheidippides, p. 27.
  • Halbert and Hob, p. 45.
  • Ivàn Ivànovitch, p. 57.
  • Tray, p. 101.
  • Ned Bratts, p. 107.

1879. "THE BLIND MAN TO THE MAIDEN SAID." Poem, twenty lines, in "The Hour Will Come," by Wilhelmine von Hillern, translated from the German by Mrs. Clara Bell (vol. ii., p. 174). London, 8vo. Quoted in Whitehall Review, March 1, 1883, with statement that the English version of the poem is by Mr. Browning. Reprinted with some particulars in the Browning Society's Papers, pt. ii., p. 410, 1883.

1880. DRAMATIC IDYLS. Second Series. By Robert Browning. Post 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1880.

  • Contents.

  • [Proem] ("You are sick, that's sure"), p. vii.
  • Echetlos, p. 1.
  • Clive, p. 9.
  • Muléykeh, p. 43.
  • Pietro of Abano, p. 61.
  • Doctor ——, p. 113.
  • Pan and Luna, p. 137.
  • [Epilogue], ("Touch him ne'er so lightly"), p. 149.

Ten additional lines to this epilogue have been published—"Thus I wrote in London, musing," &c. These lines appeared in the Century Magazine (Scribner's), vol. 25, 1882, pp. 159, 160, and were there said to have been written in an autograph album, October 14th, 1880. They were reprinted in the Browning Society's Papers, pt. iii., p. 48*, November, 1882, but have been withdrawn from the Society's later issues.

1880. SELECTIONS FROM THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. Second Series. 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1880. The First Series appeared in 1872. Both were reprinted in 1884.

1882. A SELECTION FROM THE WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. With a Memoir of the Author, and explanatory notes, by F. H. Ahn, 8vo. Berlin, 1882. This is vol. viii. of Ahn's Collection of British and American Standard Authors.

1883. JOCOSERIA. By Robert Browning. 8vo. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1883.

1883. LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC POEMS SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. Edited by E. T. Mason. 8vo. New York, 1883.

[1883.] SELECTIONS FROM THE POETRY OF ROBERT BROWNING. With an Introduction by R. G. White, 8vo. New York.

1883. SONNET ON GOLDONI. Dated "Venice, Nov. 27, 1883," and written for the Album of the Committee of the Goldoni Monument at Venice, where it appears upon the first page. Printed in the Pall Mall Gazette, Dec. 8, 1883, and in the Browning Society's Papers, pt. v., p. 98*, 1884.

1883. PARAPHRASE FROM HORACE. (On Singers). [Horace's "Omnibus hoc vitium est cantoribus," etc.] Four lines written impromptu for Mr. Felix Moscheles. Published in the Pall Mall Gazette, Dec. 12, 1883, and in the Browning Society's Papers, pt. v. p. 99*, 1884.

1884. SONNET ON RAWDON BROWN. Dated Nov. 28. 1883, and published in the. Century Magazine, vol. 27, Feb. 1884, p. 640. Reprinted in the Browning Society's Papers, pt. v., p. 132*, 1884.

1884. THE FOUNDER OF THE FEAST.—A Sonnet. Inscribed by Mr. Browning in the Album presented to Mr. Arthur Chappell, director of the St. James's Hall Popular Concerts, etc. (The World, April 16, 1884). Reprinted in the Browning Society's Papers, pt. vii., p. 18*, 1884. The sonnet is dated "April 5th, 1884."

1884. THE NAMES. Sonnet on Shakspeare. On page 1 of the "Shaksperian Show Book" of the Shaksperian Show held at the Albert Hall, May 29-31, 1884. The poem is dated "March 12, '84," and was published in the Pall Mall Gazette, May 29, 1884, and in the Browning Society's Papers, pt. v., p. 105*.

1884. "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.

1884. FERISHTAH'S FANCIES. By Robert Browning 8vo. Smith, Elder & Co., 1884.