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,
- BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT MOULTON-BARRETT (wife).
- 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].
- 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].
- 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.]
- 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 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];
- 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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