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ROBERT BROWNING
The Lake Library Edition
SELECTIONS
FROM
The Poems and Plays
OF
Robert Browning
EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
MYRA REYNOLDS
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY
| CHICAGO | ATLANTA | NEW YORK |
COPYRIGHT, 1909
SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY
286.4
CONTENTS
| Introduction— | PAGE |
| I. The Life of Browning | [7] |
| II. The Poetry of Browning | [31] |
| Bibliography | [57] |
| Chronological Table | [60] |
| Selections from Browning— | |
| (The figures in parentheses refer to the pages of the Notes.) | |
| Songs from Paracelsus ([389]) | [65] |
| Cavalier Tunes ([391]) | [69] |
| The Lost Leader ([391]) | [72] |
| "How They Brought the Good News" ([392]) | [73] |
| The Flower's Name ([393]) | [76] |
| Meeting at Night ([393]) | [78] |
| Parting at Morning ([393]) | [78] |
| Evelyn Hope ([393]) | [78] |
| Love Among the Ruins ([394]) | [81] |
| Up at a Villa—Down in the City ([394]) | [84] |
| A Toccata of Galuppi's ([395]) | [88] |
| Old Pictures in Florence ([396]) | [91] |
| "De Gustibus—" ([399]) | [101] |
| Home-Thoughts, from Abroad ([399]) | [103] |
| Home-Thoughts, from the Sea ([400]) | [104] |
| Saul ([400]) | [105] |
| My Star ([402]) | [126] |
| Two in the Campagna ([403]) | [126] |
| In Three Days ([403]) | [129] |
| The Guardian-Angel ([403]) | [130] |
| Memorabilia ([404]) | [132] |
| Incident of the French Camp ([404]) | [133] |
| My Last Duchess ([404]) | [135] |
| The Boy and the Angel ([404]) | [137] |
| The Pied Piper of Hamelin ([404]) | [141] |
| The Flight of the Duchess ([405]) | [152] |
| A Grammarian's Funeral ([406]) | [183] |
| "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" ([407]) | [189] |
| How It Strikes a Contemporary ([409]) | [196] |
| Fra Lippo Lippi ([409]) | [200] |
| Andrea Del Sarto ([413]) | [213] |
| The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church ([414]) | [222] |
| Cleon ([416]) | [227] |
| One Word More ([417]) | [239] |
| Abt Vogler ([419]) | [247] |
| Rabbi Ben Ezra ([422]) | [253] |
| Caliban Upon Setebos ([423]) | [260] |
| May and Death ([425]) | [271] |
| Prospice ([425]) | [272] |
| A Face ([425]) | [273] |
| O Lyric Love ([425]) | [274] |
| Prologue to Pacchiarotto ([425]) | [275] |
| House ([426]) | [276] |
| Shop ([426]) | [278] |
| Hervé Riel ([426]) | [282] |
| Good to Forgive ([427]) | [289] |
| "Such a Starved Bank of Moss" ([427]) | [290] |
| Epilogue to the Two Poets of Croisic ([427]) | [290] |
| Pheidippides ([427]) | [295] |
| Muléykeh ([428]) | [302] |
| Wanting Is—What? ([428]) | [309] |
| Never the Time and the Place ([428]) | [310] |
| The Patriot ([429]) | [311] |
| Instans Tyrannus ([429]) | [312] |
| The Italian in England ([430]) | [315] |
| "Round Us the Wild Creatures" ([431]) | [321] |
| Prologue to Asolando ([431]) | [321] |
| Summum Bonum ([431]) | [323] |
| Epilogue to Asolando ([431]) | [324] |
| Pippa Passes ([431]) | [325] |
| Notes | [389] |