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Life of Robert Browning

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The author traces the poet's life from London birth and family background through childhood precocity, artistic influences, and early education, describing formative encounters with Shelley, Keats, and continental art that shaped his youthful verse. It follows the publication and reception of early poems such as Pauline, his travels, immersion in literary circles, friendships with contemporary writers, and evolving methods culminating in dramatic monologues. The narrative combines biographical detail, critical commentary, and documentary notes to map personal relationships, publishing history, and the development of themes and technique across his career.

O.

  •  Obscurity, Browning's, 106, 180
  • "Old Pictures in Florence," 130
  • "O Lyric Love," 121, 130, 177
  • "One Way of Love," 130
  • "One Word More," 169, 177
  •  Optimism, Browning's, 24 (and vide Summary)
  •  Orion, new star in, 198
  •  Orr, Mrs. Sutherland, 18, 98, 111, 184
  •  Orthodoxy, Browning's, 193
  • "Over the seas our galleys went," 29

P.

R.

S.

T.

  •  Talfourd, 54, 78
  •  Tauchnitz edition, 179
  •  Taylor, Bayard, 161
  •  Tennyson, Lord, 54, 55, 134, 161, 180, 192
  • "The Statue and the Bust," 173
  • "The Tomb at St. Praxed's," 129, 143
  • "There's a woman like a Dew-drop," 192
  •  Thinker, Browning as, 200
  • "Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr," 129
  • "Tokay," 167
  • "Too Late," 130
  • "Touch him ne'er so lightly," 130
  •  Tour-de-force, Poetry and, 115
  •  Transcripts from Life, 129-131
  •  Traill, H.D., 209
  • "Two in the Campagna," 130, 159, 160
  • "Two Poets of Croisic," 130, 181

U.

  •  University College, 33

V.

W.

  •  Wagner, 209
  •  Wedmore, F., 204
  •  Westminster Abbey, 196
  • "What of the Leafage," etc., 188
  • "Why from the World," 130
  •  Wiedemann, Mr., 18
  • "Woman's Last Word, A," 129
  •  Women, Browning's, 66
  • "Women and Roses," 130
  •  Wonder Spirit, Browning and the, 95
  •  Wordsworth, 78, 94, 145, 161
  •  Work, Browning's mass of, 201

Y.

  •  Yates, E., Letter from Browning to, 189
  •  York, the horse, 20, 190
  • "Youth and Art," 130, 172

Z.

  • "Z" signed Sonnet, 58