INDEX
A
Agamemnon of Aeschylus, The, [120]
Alliance, The Holy, [89].
"Andrea del Sarto," [83]
Aristophanes' Apology, [120], [199].
Arnold, Matthew, [41], [55], [56].
Asolando, [132].
"At the Mermaid," [117].
B
"Bad Dreams," [138].
Balaustion's Adventure, [119-120].
Barrett, Arabella, [74], [119].
Barrett, Edward Moulton, [58] seq., [70], [73], [74], [76], [79].
Beardsley, Mr. Aubrey, [149].
Bells and Pomegranates, [105].
Birrell, Mr. Augustine, [160].
"Bishop Blougram," [51], [189].
Bishop Blougram's Apology, [188], [189], [199], [200].
Blot on the 'Scutcheon, A, [53].
Boyd, Mr., [62].
Browning, Robert: birth and family history, [3]; theories as to his descent, [4-8]; a typical Englishman of the middle class, [9]; his immediate ancestors, [10] seq.; education, [12]; boyhood and youth, [17]; first poems, Incondita, [17]; romantic spirit, [18]; publication of Pauline, [20]; friendship with literary men, [21]; Paracelsus, [22]; introduction to literary world, [25]; his earliest admirers, [26]; friendship with Carlyle, [26]; Strafford, [27]; Sordello, [34]; Pippa Passes, [43]; Dramatic Lyrics, [45]; The Return of the Druses, [51]; A Blot on the 'Scutcheon, [53]; correspondence with Elizabeth Barrett, [62] seq.; their first meeting, [70]; marriage and elopement, [78], [79]; life in Italy, [81] seq.; love of Italy, [82], [85] seq.; sympathy with Italian Revolution, [90]; attitude towards spiritualism, [91] seq., [113], [190-199]; death of his wife, [103]; returns to England, [105]; The Ring and the Book, [110]; culmination of his literary fame, [110], [117]; life in society, [110]; elected Fellow of Balliol, [117]; honoured by the great Universities, [118]; Balaustion's Adventure, [119-120]; Aristophanes' Apology, [120]; The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, [120]; Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, [121]; Red-Cotton Night-Cap Country, [122]; Fifine at the Fair, [124]; The Inn Album, [125]; Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper, [125]; La Saisiaz, [127]; The Two Poets of Croisic, [127]; Dramatic Idylls, 127; Jocoseria, [127]; Ferishtah's Fancies, [127]; Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day, [128]; accepts post of Foreign Correspondent to the Royal Academy, [129]; goes to Llangollen with his sister, [130]; last journey to Italy, [130]; death at Venice, [132]; publication of Asolando, [132]; his conversation, [36]; vanity, [33], [36]; faults and virtues, [40], [55]; his interest in Art, [82] seq.; his varied accomplishments, [84-85]; personality and presence, [18], [33], [112] seq.; his prejudices, [113-116]; his occasional coarseness, [116]; politics, [86] seq.; Browning as a father, [105]; as dramatist, [52]; as a literary artist, [133] seq.; his se of the grotesque, [48], [140], [143], [148] seq.; his failures, [141]; artistic originality, [136], [143], 158; keen sense of melody and rhythm, [145] seq.; ingenuity in rhyming, [152]; his buffoonery, [154]; obscurity, [154] seq.; his conception of the Universe, [175]; philosophy, [177] seq.; optimism, [179] seq.; his love poetry, [49]; his knaves, [51], [201-202]; the key to his casuistical monologues, [199].
Browning, Life of (Mrs. Orr), [92].
Browning, Robert (father of the poet), [10], [119].
Browning, Mrs., née Wiedermann (mother), [11], [82].
Browning, Anna (sister), [14], [105].
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (wife), [57] seq., [91-99], [101], [103], [116], 119, [129], [131].
Browning Society, [129].
Burns, Robert, [169-170].
Byron, [11], [38], [141], [143].
C
"Caliban upon Setebos," [93], [135], [138].
"Caponsacchi," [108].
Carlyle, Thomas, [12], [16], [17], [26], [55], [56], [87], [115].
Carlyle, Mrs., [26].
"Cavalier Tunes," [46].
Chaucer, [117].
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came," [159].
Christmas Eve, [105].
Church in Italy, The, [88].
"Clive," [127].
Clough, Arthur Hugh, [56].
Colombe's Birthday, [32].
Corelli, Miss Marie, [38].
Cromwell, Oliver, [73].
D
Dickens, [16].
Domett, Alfred, [21].
"Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis," [161].
Dramatic Idylls, [127].
Dramatic Lyrics, [45-50].
Dramatis Personæ, [105].
Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan, [187], [188].
E
Edinburgh Review, [122].
"Englishman in Italy, The," [150].
F
"Fears and Scruples," [126], [138].
"Ferishtah's Fancies," [138].
Fifine at the Fair, [9], [13], [51], [124], [199].
Fitzgerald, Edward, [116], [131].
Flight of the Duchess, The, [18].
Forster, John, [26].
Fox, Mr. Johnson, [20].
Fox, Mrs. Bridell, [33].
"Fra Lippo,", [51].
French Revolution, [87].
G
"Garden Fancies," [46].
Gilbert, W.S., [144].
Gissing, Mr. George, [165].
Gladstone, [117].
Golden Treasury (Palgrave), [168].
Gordon, General, [90].
"Guido Franceschini," [106], [120], [200].
H
Henley, Mr., [148].
"Heretic's Tragedy, The," [137].
Hickey, Miss E.H., [129].
"Holy Cross Day," [153].
Home, David (spiritualist), [93-97], [113], [190], [191].
Home, David, Memoirs of, [93] seq.
Horne, [26].
Houghton, Lord, [129].
"House," [138].
"Householder, The," [138].
"How they brought the good News from Ghent to Aix," [46].
Hudibras (Butler), [57].
Hugo, Victor, [17].
Hunt, Leigh, [26].
I
Incondita, [17].
Inn Album, The, [125].
Instans Tyrannus, [9].
Italy, [85] seq.
Italian Revolution, [88] seq.
"Ivàn Ivànovitch," [127].
J
Jameson, Mrs., [75].
Jerrold, Douglas, [34].
Jocoseria, [127].
Jowett, Dr., [118].
Julius Cæsar (Shakespeare), [28].
"Juris Doctor Bottinius," [161].
K
Keats, [15], [16], [19], [137], [142].
Kenyon, Mr., [22], [58], [69-70], [74], [76].
King Victor and King Charles, [32].
Kipling, Rudyard, [142].
Kirkup, Seymour, [103].
L
L'Aiglon, [28].
"Laboratory, The," [47], [143].
Landor, [26], [56], [93], [101-103].
La Saisiaz, [127].
Letters, The Browning, [63].
Liberalism, [86].
"Lines to Edward Fitzgerald," [131].
Llangollen, [130].
Lockhart, [112].
"Lost Leader, The," [46].
"Lover's Quarrel, A," [50].
"Luigi," [45].
Lytton, Lord (novelist), [91].
M
Manning, Cardinal, [91].
Mary Queen of Scots, [29].
"Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha," [147].
"May and Death." [21].
Mazzini, [89].
Men and Women, [105].
Meredith, George, [156], [165].
Mill, John Stuart, [26], [56].
Milsand, [119].
Milton, [137].
Mr. Sludge the Medium, [82], [96], [120], [190-199].
"Muléykeh," [127].
"My Star," [138].
N
"Nationality in Drinks," [46], [138].
Napoleon III., [56], [92], [121].
"Never the Time and the Place," [127].
Newman, Cardinal, [193].
Norwood, [18].
O
"Ode on the Intimations of Immortality" (Wordsworth), [136].
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" (Keats), [137].
"Old Masters in Florence," [177].
"One Word More," [65].
Orr, Mrs., [72].
P
Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper, [125], [126], [152].
Paracelsus, [22], [25], [26], [41], [47], [158].
Painting, Poems on, [83].
Palgrave, Francis, [117].
Paris, [94].
Parleyings with certain Persons of Importance in their Day, [22], [128], [158].
Pauline, [20], [21], [37], [41], [51].
"Pheidippides," [127].
Phelps (actor), [53].
"Pictor Ignotus," [83].
"Pied Piper of Hamelin, The," [153].
Pippa Passes, [18], [45], [47], [51], [137].
Pisa, [81].
Pius IX., Church under, [88].
Poe, Edgar Allan, [144].
Poetry, Pessimistic school of, [130].
"Pompilia," [201].
"Portrait, A," [138].
Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, [121-122].
Princess, The (Tennyson), [148].
"Prometheus Unbound" (Shelley), [137].
Puritans, [30].
R
"Rabbi Ben Ezra," [201].
Red-Cotton Night-Cap Country, [122-124].
Return of the Druses, The, [51-53].
Revolution,
The French, [15]; Italian, [90].
Ring and the Book, The, [85], [106], [109], [123], [137], [160-176].
Ripert-Monclar, Comte de, [22], [93].
Roman Church, [114], [187], [188].
Rossetti, [163].
Royalists, [30].
Ruskin, [16], [55], [56], [91], [115].
Russia, [88].
S
Santayana's, Mr., Interpretations of Poetry and Religion, [183-186].
"Sebald," [45].
Shakespeare Society, [129].
Sharp, Mr. William, [133].
Shaw, Mr. Bernard, [165].
Shelley, [15], [16], [17],19, [56], [136], [141], [143].
"Shop," [138].
"Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis," [138].
Silverthorne (Browning's cousin), [21].
"Sludge," [51], [52], [150], [189], [200].
Smith, Elder (publishers), [110].
"Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, The," [47].
"Sonnets from the Portuguese," [65].
Speech, Free, [173].
Spenser, [142].
Spiritualism, [9], [91], [113], [190].
"Statue and the Bust, The," [109].
Sterne, [117].
Stevenson, Robert Louis, [60], [114].
Swinburne, [56], [116], [142],143.
T
Tait's Magazine, [20].
Talfourd, Sergeant, [26].
Tennyson, [27], [34], [55], [117], [141], [142], [143], [148].
Thackeray, Miss, [123].
"Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr," [46].
Tolstoi, [115].
Tristram Shandy (Sterne), [163].
Two Poets of Croisic, The, [127].
U
University College, [14].
"Up jumped Tokay" (poem quoted), [140].
V
Venice, [131].
Victor of Sardinia, King, [23].
Vogler, Abt, [23].
W
Water Babies (Kingsley), [8].
Watts, Mr. G.F., [112].
Whitman, Walt, [21], [43], [49], [114], [165], [184].
"Why I am a Liberal" (sonnet), [86].
Wiedermann, William, [12].
Wiseman, Cardinal, [188].
Wimbledon Common, [18].
Wordsworth, [69], [136], [141], [143].
Wordsworth Society, [129].
Y
Z
Zola, [164].