Robert Browning

• AESCHYLUS, 215.
• ALLINGHAM, W., 87.
• American fame of Browning, 87.
• ARISTOPHANES, 77, 207 f.
• ARNOLD, M., 26.
• Asolo, 27, 50, 220, 232.
• Athenæum, The, 172, 251.

• BALZAC, 42, 49, 86, 117.
• BARRETT, ELIZABETH. See Browning, E.B.
• BARTOLI, his Simboli, 27.
• BENCKHAUSEN, Russian Consul-General, 14.
• BÉRANGER, 86.
• BLAGDEN, ISA. See BROWNING, R., letters.
• BRONSON, Mrs ARTHUR, 220, 231.
• BRONTE, EMILY, her character "Heathcliff," 66.
• BROWNING, ROBERT (grandfather), 2.
• BROWNING, ROBERT (father), 3, 6, 18, 149 n., 173.
• BROWNING, ROBERT,
  • cosmopolitan in sympathies, English by his art, 1, 2;
  • his birth, 3;
  • likeness to his mother, 4 n.;
  • character of his home, 5;
  • boyhood, 5, 6;
  • early sense of rhythm, 7;
  • reads Shelley, Keats, and Byron, 8 f.;
  • journey to St Petersburg, 14;
  • first voyage to Italy, 26 f.;
  • second voyage to Italy, 61;
  • correspondence with E.B. Barrett, 78;
  • marriage, 81;
  • settlement in Italy, 84;
  • friendships and society at Florence, 84 f.;
  • Italian politics, 88;
  • Italian scenery, 91;
  • Italian painting, 98 f.;
  • and music, 103 f.;
  • religion, 110 f.;
  • his interpretation of In a Balcony, 145 n.;
  • death of Mrs Browning, 147;
  • return to London, 148;
  • society, 150;
  • summer sojourns in France, 153 f., 202 f.;
  • in the Alps, 216;
  • death of Miss Egerton-Smith, 216;
  • Italy once more, 220;
  • Asolo and Venice, 231 f.;
  • death, 234.
  • Works—
    • Abt Vogler, 71, 158 f.
    • Agamemnon (translation of), 215 f.
    • Andrea del Sarto, 70 f., 100 f.
    • Another Way of Love, 142.
    • Any Wife to Any Husband, 140.
    • Appearances, 212.
    • Aristophanes' Apology, 206 f.
    • Artemis Prologizes, 68, 190.
    • Asolando, 220, 232 f.
    • At the Mermaid, 211.
    • Bad Dreams, 232.
    • Balaustion's Adventure, 75, 190 f.
    • Baldinucci, 214.
    • Bells and Pomegranates, 16, 41 f., 74.
    • Bifurcation, 213.
    • Bishop of St Praxed's, The, 70, 113, 275.
    • Blot in the 'Scutcheon, A, 52 f.
    • Blougram's Apology, 14, 57, 60, 90, 113, 129 f., 277 f.
    • Boy and the Angel, The, 113, 116.
    • By the Fireside, 94, 135 f., 275.
    • Caliban upon Setebos, 162 f.
    • Cavalier Tunes, 67.
    • Childe Roland, 95 f., 262 f.
    • Christmas-Eve and Easter Day, 81, 114 f., 162.
    • Cleon, 113, 126 f.
    • Clive, 223.
    • Colombe's Birthday, 53, 55 f.
    • Confessional, The, 40, 66.
    • Cristina, 48, 68 f.
    • Deaf and Dumb, 295.
    • Death in the Desert, A, 152, 160 f.
    • De Gustibus, 90, 92, 254.
    • Dis Aliter Visum, 152, 156.
    • Dramas, 37 f.
    • Dramatic Idylls, 221 f.
    • Dramatic Lyrics, 38 f., 65 f., 79.
    • Dramatic Romances, 38, 79.
    • Dramatis Personæ, 151-168, 213.
    • Echetlos, 222.
    • Englishman in Italy, The, 93.
    • Epilogue to Dramatis Personæ, 154, 167 f., 296.
    • Epistle of Karshish, An, 113, 123 f.
    • Eurydice to Orpheus, 157.
    • Evelyn Hope, 138, 293.
    • Fears and Scruples, 212.
    • Ferishtah's Fancies, 227 f.
    • Fifine at the Fair, 92 f., 149, 197 f., 209, 242.
    • Flight of the Duchess, The, 69 f., 199.
    • Flower's Name, The, 68.
    • Forgiveness, A, 213.
    • Fra Lippo Lippi, 71, 101 f., 112.
    • Francis Furini, 298.
    • Gerard de Lairesse, 222.
    • Gismond, 41, 57, 67.
    • Glove, The, 69, 70.
    • Grammarian's Funeral, The, 109 f.
    • Guardian Angel, The, 99.
    • Halbert and Hob, 222.
    • Helen's Tower, sonnet, 188.
    • Heretic's Tragedy, A, 128 f., 263.
    • Hervé Riel, 189 f., 222.
    • Holy Cross Day, 4 n., 128.
    • Home Thoughts from Abroad (quoted), 265.
    • Home Thoughts from the Sea, 26.
    • House, 211.
    • How it Strikes a Contemporary, 108 f.
    • How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, 27, 67, 222.
    • Hugues of Saxe Gotha, Master, 71, 105 f., 113.
    • In a Balcony, 143 f.
    • In a Gondola, 67.
    • In a Year, 140.
    • Incondita, 8.
    • Inn Album, The, 188, 208 f.
    • Instans Tyrannus, 66, 90.
    • In Three Days, 137, 141.
    • Italian in England, The, 91.
    • Iván Ivánovitch, 14, 221, 223.
    • Ixion, 225 f.
    • James Lee's Wife, 153 f.
    • Jochanan Halkadosh, 225.
    • Jocoseria, 224 f.
    • Johannes Agricola, 15 f.
    • King Victor and King Charles, 15, 45, 50.
    • Laboratory, The, 38, 66.
    • La Saisiaz, 216 f.
    • Last Ride Together, The, 68, 138 f., 304.
    • Life in a Love, 137.
    • Light Woman, A, 142.
    • Lost Leader, The, 66.
    • Lost Mistress, The, 68, 156.
    • Love in a Life, 137.
    • Luria, 60, 61 f.
    • Madhouse Cells, 16.
    • Martin Relph, 222 f., 275.
    • Men and Women, 25, 60, 72, 74, 87-147, 152, 213.
    • Muleykeh, 223.
    • My Last Duchess, 66, 70, 213.
    • My Star, 140.
    • Natural Magic, 213.
    • Ned Bratts, 222.
    • Never the Time and the Place, 226.
    • Now, 233.
    • Numpholeptos, 213.
    • Old Pictures in Florence, 90, 102 f.
    • One Way of Love, 137.
    • One Word More, 97 f., 146 f.
    • Pacchiarotto, 109, 162, 188, 210 f.
    • Pan and Luna, 248.
    • Paracelsus, 16 f., 25, 29, 38, 42.
    • Parleyings with Certain People of Importance, 229 f.
    • Patriot, The, 90.
    • Pauline, 11 f.
    • Pearl, a Girl, A, 233.
    • Pheidippides, 222.
    • Pictor Ignolus, 70 f.
    • Pied Piper, The, 71 f., 269.
    • Pippa Passes, 49 f., 59, 79, 91, 151, 181.
    • Popularity, 109.
    • Porphyria's Lover, 16.
    • Pretty Woman, A, 142.
    • Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, 14, 194 f.
    • Prospice, 109, 157.
    • Rabbi ben Ezra, 4 n., 109, 157 f.
    • Red-cotton Night-cap Country, 90 (Miranda), 188, 203 f.
    • Return of the Druses, The, 45, 46 f., 64.
    • Reverie, 233.
    • Ring and the Book, The, 151 f., 169-186, 276 f.
    • Rudel, 68.
    • Saint Martin's Summer, 213.
    • Saul, 48, 72 f., 113, 121 f.
    • Serenade at the Villa, 137.
    • Shelley, Essay on, 20, 106 f., 109 f.
    • Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis, 67, 79.
    • Sludge, Mr, the Medium, 90, 165 f.
    • Solomon and Balkis, 225.
    • Sordello, 15, 25 f., 238.
    • Soul's Tragedy, A, 59 f.
    • Spanish Cloister, The, 79.
    • Statue and the Bust, The, 142, 213.
    • Strafford, 15, 25, 42 f.
    • Summum Bonum, 233.
    • Time's Revenges, 66.
    • Toccata of Galuppi's, A, 104 f., 153.
    • Too Late, 153.
    • Transcendentalism, 108.
    • Two in the Campagna, 93, 134, 140, 238.
    • Two Poets of Croisic, The, 218 f.
    • Woman's Last Word, A, 140.
    • Women and Roses, 143.
    • Worst of It, The, 156.
    • Youth and Art, 152, 156.
  • Letters,
    • to E.B.B., 4 n., 6, 8, 49, 59 n., 62, 63, 65, 67, 72, 75, 78-83 passim, 85, 114 f., 241, 252 f., 283;
    • to Miss Blagden, 153, 171, 173 n., 249;
    • to Miss Flower, 43;
    • to Miss Haworth, 26 n., 44, 237;
    • to Ruskin, 237;
    • to Aubrey de Vere, 247 n.
• BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT MOULTON-BARRETT (wife).
  • First allusion to Browning, 75;
  • reads Paracelsus, 75 n.;
  • her character, early life, and poetry, 76 f.;
  • correspondence with Browning, 78 f.;
  • marriage, 81;
  • settlement in Italy, 84;
  • friendships, society at Florence, 84 f.;
  • death, 147;
  • her relation to Pompilia, 180.
    • Aurora Leigh, 81, 87, 151, 209.
    • Songs before Congress, 90.
    • Sonnets from the Portuguese, 87.
    • Casa Guidi Windows, 90.
    • Letters to R.B., 49, 65, 77 n., 78-83 passim, 114, 251.
    • Letter to Ruskin, 77 n.
    • Letters to others, 85, 89, 92, 99, 245.
• BROWNING, SARAH ANNA (mother), 4.
• BURNS, R., 40, 281.
• BYRON, LORD, 7, 8, 104, 198, 218, 263.

• CARLYLE, THOMAS, 36, 42, 87, 150, 172, 230, 256, 307.
• Carnival, Schumann's, 202.
• Casa Guidi, 84 f., 97.
• CELLINI, BENVENUTO, 98.
• CHAUCER, G., 41.
• COLERIDGE, S.T., 8, 95 f., 134.
• CORNARO, CATHARINE, 50.
• Cornhill Magazine, The, 190.

• DANTE, 29 f., 33, 35, 66, 120 f., 261 f., 308.
• DICKENS, CHARLES, 42, 49.
• DOMETT, ALFRED (referred to), 99.
• DONNE, JOHN, 6, 254 n.
• Dulwich, 6, 49, 97.

• EGERTON-SMITH, ANN, 216.
• EMERSON, R.W., 256.
• EURIPIDES, 173 n., 191, 208.

• Fano, the Brownings at, 99.
• FAUCIT, HELEN (Lady Martin), 43.
• FICHTE, J.E., 288 f.
• FITZGERALD, EDWARD, 172, 188.
• Florence, 84 f. passim.
• FLOWER, ELIZA, 11, 43.
• FORSTER, JOHN, 42.
• FOX, W.J., 8, 14, 42, 86.

• Germany. German strain in Browning, 4 n.
• GIOTTO, 99, 103.
• GOETHE, J.W. VON, 5, 288;
  • Faust, 19, 31, 50, 198, 296;
  • Iphigenie, 30 n.;
  • Metamorphose der Pflanzen, 265;
  • Tasso, 30;
  • Westöstlicher Divan, 226.
• Greek, early studies in, 8.
• Gressoney, 226.

• HAWORTH, EUPHRASIA FANNY, 27.
• HORNE, author of Orion, 80.
• HUGO, VICTOR, 86, 242.

• IBSEN, H., The Wild Duck, 59.

• JAMESON, ANNA, 84.
• Jews. Browning's attitude towards the Jewish race, 4 n.
• JONSON, BEN, 38, 214.
• Junius, Letters of, 6.

• KEATS, J., 9, 73, 240 f., 254.
• KENYON, JOHN, 73, 78, 80, 82, 86.

• LANDOR, W.S., 30 n., 40 f., 87 f., 96, 229.
• LEIGHTON, Sir FREDERIC, 71, 150.
• Lucca, the Brownings at, 92.

• MACLISE, 67.
• MACREADY, 42 f., 32.
• MAETERLINCK, M., 144, 162 n.
• MALORY, 104.
• MEREDITH, Mr G., 168.
• Metres, Browning's, 186, 253, 261.
• MICHELANGELO, 103.
• MILL, JOHN STUART, 11 f.
• MILSAND, JOSEPH, 86, 188, 203, 230.
• MILTON, J., 71, 261.
• Monthly Repository, 14.
• MOXON, EDWARD, publisher, 59 n.
• MUSSET, ALFRED DE, 141 f.

• NAPOLEON III., Emperor, 88 f., 194.

• OSSIAN, 7.

• PALESTRINA, 103.
• Paris, 85 f., 92, 106, 204.
• PAUL, SAINT, 308.
• PHELPS, actor, 58.
• Pisa, 84.
• PLATO, 12, 239, 307.
• PRINSEP, V., 150.

• QUARLES, FRANCIS, 6.

• Rezzonico Palace, 231.
• RIPERT-MONCLAR, COMTE AMÉDÉE DE, 17.
• Rome, the Brownings in, 87.
• ROSSETTI, D.G., 13 f., 86 f., 150.
• ROSSETTI, Mr W.M., 171 n.
• RUSKIN, JOHN, 77 n., 150, 237.

• SAND, GEORGE, 85.
• SCHILLER, F., 70, 209.
• SCOTT, Sir W., 93.
• SHAKESPEARE, W., 65, 200, 211;
  • Romeo and Juliet, 38;
  • The Tempest, 50 f., 162 f.;
  • Loves Labour's Lost, 56;
  • Hamlet, 58;
  • Julius Cæsar, 63;
  • Othello, 62;
  • As You Like It, 95.
• SHELLEY, P.B., 8, 9, 12 f., 20, 34, 90, 110 f., 183, 238, 240, 254, 257, 263, 271, 296.
• SMART, CHRISTOPHER, his Song to David, 72.
• SOUTHEY, R., 8.
• Spiritualism, 87.
• SWINBURNE, Mr A.C., 151.

• TENNYSON, ALFRED LORD, 1, 19, 31, 86 f., 130, 150, 172, 175, 261 f.
• TENNYSON, FREDERICK, 150.
• THACKERAY, ANNIE (Mrs Ritchie), 203.
• THACKERAY, W.M., 150.
• TITTLE, MARGARET, the poet's grandmother, 3.
• TRELAWNEY, E.J., 61.
• Trifler, The, 15.

• Venice, 27, 37.
• VERDI, 103.
• VILLON, 105.
• Virgil, Dante's, 30.
• Vocabulary, Browning's, 261.
• VOLTAIRE, 6.

• WALPOLE, HORACE, 6.
• WIEDEMANN, WILLIAM, the poet's maternal grandfather, 4.
• WISEMAN, CARDINAL, 130.
• WOOLNER, 150.
• WORDSWORTH, 8, 32, 93 f., 244, 264, 268, 273, 284.

• York (a horse), 27.

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