The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning / Cambridge Edition
EDITED BY
HORACE E. SCUDDER
BROWNING
THE EDITOR
Cambridge Edition
Asolo: Browning's Italian Home
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
Copyright, 1895, By HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
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The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.
Robert Browning
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The Cambridge Edition of the Poets
PUBLISHERS' NOTE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAULINE: THE FRAGMENT OF A CONFESSION
PAULINE
SONNET.
I. PARACELSUS ASPIRES
II. PARACELSUS ATTAINS
III. PARACELSUS
IV. PARACELSUS ASPIRES
V. PARACELSUS ATTAINS
PERSONS
ACT I
ACT III
ACT IV
BOOK THE SECOND
BOOK THE THIRD
BOOK THE FOURTH
BOOK THE FIFTH
BOOK THE SIXTH
PIPPA PASSES
INTRODUCTION
I. MORNING
II. NOON
III. EVENING
IV. NIGHT
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
ACT V
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
ACT V
INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP
THE PATRIOT
MY LAST DUCHESS
COUNT GISMOND
THE BOY AND THE ANGEL
INSTANS TYRANNUS
MESMERISM
THE GLOVE
TIME'S REVENGES
THE ITALIAN IN ENGLAND
THE ENGLISHMAN IN ITALY
IN A GONDOLA
WARING
THE TWINS
A LIGHT WOMAN
THE LAST RIDE TOGETHER
THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN
THE FLIGHT OF THE DUCHESS
A GRAMMARIAN'S FUNERAL
THE HERETIC'S TRAGEDY
HOLY-CROSS DAY
PROTUS
THE STATUE AND THE BUST
PORPHYRIA'S LOVER
"CHILDE ROLAND TO THE DARK TOWER CAME"
A SOUL'S TRAGEDY
ACT I
ACT II
LURIA
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
ACT V
CHRISTMAS-EVE
EASTER-DAY
MEN AND WOMEN
"TRANSCENDENTALISM: A POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS"
HOW IT STRIKES A CONTEMPORARY
ARTEMIS PROLOGIZES
JOHANNES AGRICOLA IN MEDITATION
FRA LIPPO LIPPI
BISHOP BLOUGRAM'S APOLOGY
CLEON
RUDEL TO THE LADY OF TRIPOLI
IN A BALCONY
BEN KARSHOOK'S WISDOM
JAMES LEE'S WIFE
GOLD HAIR
THE WORST OF IT
TOO LATE
RABBI BEN EZRA
A DEATH IN THE DESERT
CONFESSIONS
MAY AND DEATH
PROSPICE
YOUTH AND ART
A FACE
A LIKENESS
MR. SLUDGE, "THE MEDIUM"
APPARENT FAILURE
EPILOGUE
HELEN'S TOWER
BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE
ARISTOPHANES' APOLOGY
HERAKLES
PRINCE HOHENSTIEL-SCHWANGAU
FIFINE AT THE FAIR
PROLOGUE
FIFINE AT THE FAIR
EPILOGUE
RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY
THE INN ALBUM
PACCHIAROTTO
PROLOGUE
OF PACCHIAROTTO, AND HOW HE WORKED IN DISTEMPER
AT THE "MERMAID"
HOUSE
SHOP
PISGAH-SIGHTS
FEARS AND SCRUPLES
NATURAL MAGIC
MAGICAL NATURE
BIFURCATION
NUMPHOLEPTOS
APPEARANCES
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMER
HERVÉ RIEL
A FORGIVENESS
CENCIAJA
FILIPPO BALDINUCCI ON THE PRIVILEGE OF BURIAL
EPILOGUE
THE AGAMEMNON OF ÆSCHYLUS
AGAMEMNON
LA SAISIAZ
THE TWO POETS OF CROISIC
OH LOVE! LOVE
MARTIN RELPH
PHEIDIPPIDES
HALBERT AND HOB
IVÀN IVÀNOVITCH
TRAY
NED BRATTS
ECHETLOS
CLIVE
MULÉYKEH
PIETRO OF ABANO
DOCTOR ——
PAN AND LUNA
THE BLIND MAN TO THE MAIDEN
GOLDONI
JOCOSERIA
WANTING IS—WHAT?
DONALD
SOLOMON AND BALKIS
CRISTINA AND MONALDESCHI
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT AND FUSELI
ADAM, LILITH, AND EVE
IXION
JOCHANAN HAKKADOSH
NEVER THE TIME AND THE PLACE
PAMBO
FERISHTAH'S FANCIES
PROLOGUE
I. THE EAGLE
II. THE MELON-SELLER
III. SHAH ABBAS
IV. THE FAMILY
V. THE SUN
VI. MIHRAB SHAH
VII. A CAMEL-DRIVER
VIII. TWO CAMELS
IX. CHERRIES
X. PLOT-CULTURE
XI. A PILLAR AT SEBZEVAR
XII. A BEAN-STRIPE: ALSO APPLE-EATING
EPILOGUE
RAWDON BROWN
THE FOUNDER OF THE FEAST
THE NAMES
EPITAPH
WHY I AM A LIBERAL
PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE IN THEIR DAY
APOLLO AND THE FATES
WITH BERNARD DE MANDEVILLE
WITH DANIEL BARTOLI
WITH CHRISTOPHER SMART
WITH GEORGE BUBB DODINGTON
WITH FRANCIS FURINI
WITH GERARD DE LAIRESSE
WITH CHARLES AVISON
FUST AND HIS FRIENDS
ASOLANDO
PROLOGUE
ROSNY
DUBIETY
NOW
HUMILITY
POETICS
SUMMUM BONUM
A PEARL, A GIRL
SPECULATIVE
WHITE WITCHCRAFT
INAPPREHENSIVENESS
WHICH?
THE CARDINAL AND THE DOG
THE POPE AND THE NET
THE BEAN-FEAST
MUCKLE-MOUTH MEG
ARCADES AMBO
THE LADY AND THE PAINTER
PONTE DELL' ANGELO, VENICE
BEATRICE SIGNORINI
FLUTE-MUSIC, WITH AN ACCOMPANIMENT
"IMPERANTE AUGUSTO NATUS EST—"
DEVELOPMENT
REPHAN
REVERIE
EPILOGUE
APPENDIX
I. AN ESSAY ON SHELLEY
II. NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
III. A LIST OF MR. BROWNING'S POEMS AND DRAMAS
INDEX OF FIRST LINES OF POEMS
GENERAL INDEX OF TITLES
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