Robert Browning's Selected Poems

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Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-04-01
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary

Henry James called Robert Browning (1812 - 89) 'a tremendous and incomparable modern', and the sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensure its enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes both suburban and sublime, combines lyric and demotic language and introduces the everyday events of the streets and market place into the rarefied world of Victorian poetry. This selection includes examples from the early Dramatic Lyrics (1842) and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845), from the collections that count as Browning's masterpieces, Men and Women (1855) and Dramatis Personae (1864), and from the fine, though less familiar, works of his later years. Together they reveal Browning as one of the most intense and constantly surprising poets.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9(7)
Note on the Text 16(1)
Porphyria's Lover
17(2)
Johannes Agricola in Meditation
19(2)
Song from Pippa Passes (`The year's at the spring')
21(1)
Scene from Pippa Passes (`There goes a swallow to Venice...')
22(3)
My Last Duchess
25(2)
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
27(3)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin; A Child's Story
30(9)
`How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix'
39(3)
The Lost Leader
42(1)
Meeting at Night
43(1)
Parting at Morning
43(1)
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
44(1)
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
45(4)
Love Among the Ruins
49(3)
A Lovers' Quarrel
52(6)
Up at a Villa - Down in the City
58(4)
Fra Lippo Lippi
62(11)
A Toccata of Galuppi's
73(3)
An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
76(9)
Mesmerism
85(5)
A Serenade at the Villa
90(3)
`Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'
93(7)
The Statue and the Bust
100(8)
How It Strikes a Contemporary
108(4)
The Patriot
112(2)
Memorabilia
114(1)
Andrea del Sarto
115(8)
In a Year
123(3)
Cleon
126(10)
Two in the Campagna
136(3)
A Grammarian's Funeral
139(5)
James Lee's Wife
144(13)
James Lee's Wife Speaks at the Window
144(1)
By the Fireside
145(1)
In the Doorway
146(1)
Along the Beach
147(1)
On the Cliff
148(1)
Reading a Book, Under the Cliff
149(3)
Among the Rocks
152(1)
Beside the Drawing-Board
152(3)
On Deck
155(2)
Gold Hair: A Story of Pornic
157(6)
Dis Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos Jours
163(6)
A Death in the Desert
169(19)
Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island
188(9)
Confessions
197(2)
Youth and Art
199(3)
A Likeness
202(2)
Mr Sludge, `The Medium'
204(43)
Apparent Failure
247(3)
Epilogue [to Dramatis Personae]
250(4)
House
254(2)
Saint Martin's Summer
256(4)
Ned Bratts
260(11)
Clive
271(12)
[Wanting is - what?]
283(1)
Donald
284(8)
Never the Time and the Place
292(1)
The Names
293(1)
Now
294(1)
Beatrice Signorini
295(11)
Spring Song
306(1)
Notes 307(30)
Index of Titles 337(2)
Index of First Lines 339

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