Robert Browning

by C. H. Herford

INDEX.

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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.

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• 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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