Includes bibliographical references (pages 596-602) and index.
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Pauline; a fragment of a confession -- From Paracelsus -- From Sordello -- Pippa Posses -- My last duchess -- Count Gismond -- Incident of the French camp -- Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister -- In a gondola -- Cristina -- Johannes Agricola in meditation -- Porphyria's lover -- The Pied Piper of Hamelin -- "How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix" -- Pictor Ignotus -- The Italian in England -- The Englishman in Italy -- The lost leader -- Home-thoughts, from abroad -- ["Here's to Nelson's memory!"] -- Home-thoughts, from the sea -- The bishop orders his tomb at St. Praxed's church -- Garden fancies -- The laboratory -- Meeting at night; parting at morning -- Love among the ruins -- A lovers' quarrel -- Up at a villa -- down in the city -- A woman's last word -- Fra Lippo Lippi -- A toccata of Galuppi's -- By the fire-side -- Mesmerism -- An Epistle containing the strange medical experience of Karshish, the Arab physician -- My star -- "Childe Roland to the dark tower came" -- Respectability -- A light woman -- The statue and the bust -- How it strikes a contemporary -- The last ride together -- The patriot -- an old story -- Master hugues of Saxe-Gotha -- Bishop Blougram's apology -- Memorabilia -- Andrea del Sarto -- In a year -- "De Gustibus-" -- Women and roses -- Holy-cross day -- The guardian-angel -- Cleon -- Popularity -- Two in the campagna -- A grammarian's funeral -- "Transcendentalism : a poem in twelve books" -- One word more -- Dis aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos Jours -- Abt Vogler -- Rabbi Ben Ezra -- Caliban upon Setebos : or, natural theology in the island -- Confessions -- Prospice -- Youth and art -- A likeness -- Apparent failure -- Epilogue -- From the ring and the book : book V. : Count Guido Franceschini -- From the ring and the book : book VII. : Pompilia -- From the ring and the book : book X. : the Pope -- From fifine at the fair : prologue (amphibian) -- From Fifine at the fair : epilogue (the householder) -- [Thamuris marching] -- House -- Fears and scruples -- Numpholeptos -- Adam, Lilith, and Eve -- Never the time and the place -- With Christopher Smart -- Prologue -- Bad dreams, I-IV -- "Imperante Augusto Natus Est-" -- Development -- Epilogue -- From "introductory essay" to the letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Criticism -- Evidences of a new genius for dramatic poetry / John Forster -- [Letter to Browning] / Thomas Carlyle -- [Review of men and women] / George Eliot -- [Browning's alleged carelessness] / William Morris -- [Browning and the Italian Renaissance] / John Puskin -- [Browning's grotesque art] / Walter Bagehot -- [The ring and the book] / Robert W. Buchanan -- The poetry of the period : Mr. Browning / Alfred Austin -- [Browning's obscurity] / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- [Strictures on Browning] / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- [Browning as "writer of fiction"] / Oscar Wilde -- Browning in Westminster Abbey / Henry James -- The dramatic monologue : sympathy versus judgment / Robert Langbaum -- Dramatic monologue and the overhearing of lyric / Herbert F. Tucker -- The politics of dramatic form / Isobel Armstrong -- The pragmatics of silence, and the figuration of the reader in Browning's dramatic monologues / Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor -- Browning's Pygmalion and the revenge of Galatea / Catherine Maxwell -- Browning's poetry of intimacy / Daniel Karlin -- Browning's 'a toccata of Galuppi's' : how Venice once was dear / Stefan Hawlin -- Browning's "Childe Roland" : all things deformed and broken / Harold Bloom -- Andrea del Sarto's modesty / Erik Gray -- Browning's "Caliban" and primitive language / Isobel Armstrong -- "Pompilia" : the woman (in) question / Susan Brown -- Robert Browning : a chronology.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Works by modern and Victorian critics are presented together with poems from each stage of Browning's literary career.
UNIFORM TITLE
General Material Designation
Poems.
Form Subheading
Selections
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Browning, Robert,1812-1889-- Criticism and interpretation.
Browning, Robert-- Criticism and interpretation.
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
Browning, Robert,(1812-1889)-- Critique et interprétation.
Browning, Robert,1812-1889.
Browning, Robert.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Browning, Robert, 1812-- 1889-- Criticism and interpretation.