INDEX.
NOTE—The names of the Persons
are given in small capitals; titles of literary works in italics; other
names in ordinary type; black figures indicate the more detailed
references. Only the more important of the incidental quotations are
included. Poems are referred to only under their authors' names.
- 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.
- BÃRANGER,
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.
- 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;
- 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.
- PALESTRINA,
103.
- Paris,
85 f.,
92,
106,
204.
- PAUL, SAINT,
308.
- PHELPS, actor,
58.
- Pisa,
84.
- PLATO,
12,
239,
307.
- PRINSEP, V.,
150.
- Rezzonico Palace,
231.
- RIPERT-MONCLAR, COMTE AMÃDÃE 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.
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