ILLUSTRATIONS
| Browning at 23 | [Frontispiece] |
| PAGE | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | [4] |
| John Keats | [10] |
| William Wordsworth | [16] |
| Rydal Mount, the Home of Wordsworth | [22] |
| An English Lane | [33] |
| First Folio Portrait of Shakespeare | [60] |
| Charles I in Scene of Impeachment | [80] |
| Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford | [88] |
| Charles I | [114] |
| Whitehall | [120] |
| Westminster Hall | [157] |
| The Tower, London | [170] |
| The Tower, Traitors' Gate | [183] |
| An English Manor House | [222] |
| An English Park | [240] |
| John Bunyan | [274] |
| An English Inn | [288] |
| Cardinal Wiseman | [336] |
| Sacred Heart | [342] |
| The Nativity | [351] |
| The Transfiguration | [366] |
| Handel | [426] |
| Avison's March | [446] |
CHAPTER I
ENGLISH POETS, FRIENDS AND ENTHUSIASMS
To any one casually trying to recall what England has given Robert Browning by way of direct poetical inspiration, it is more than likely that the little poem about Shelley, "Memorabilia" would at once occur: