INDEX
Abt Vogler. Addison, J., disgust for the Alps. Andrea del Sarto. Another Way of Love. Apparent Failure. Artemis Prologises. Asolando, Prologue and Epilogue. Asolo: Browning's visits to, its place in his work; last summer passed there. Austin, Alfred, compared with F. Thompson.
Bad Dreams.
Bells and Pomegranates, meaning of title.
Bishop Blougram's Apology.
Bishop Orders His Tomb, The.
Blot in the 'Scutcheon, A.
Boy and the Angel, The.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: engagement;
her sonnets;
described by her son;
her ill health;
invented name "Dramatic Lyric;"
her assistance in R. Browning's poems.
Browning, Robert: parentage and early life;
education;
visit to Russia;
play-writing;
first visit to Italy;
marriage;
travels in Italy and lives at Paris;
domestic life in Florence described by Hawthorne;
death;
personal habits;
peculiarities;
piano-playing;
enthusiasm;
friendship with Tennyson;
normality in appearance;
excellence in character;
his theory of poetry;
his sonnets;
his favorite feature the brow;
fondness for yellow hair;
his "rejected lovers,".
Browning, Robert Barrett: death at Asolo;
my conversation with.
Bryant, W. C., visits Browning.
Byron, Lord, lyrical power.
By the Fireside.
Caliban on Setebos.
Campion, T., his lyrical power compared with Donne's.
Carlyle, T.: travels to Paris with the Brownings;
his smoking.
Cavalier Tunes.
Charles Avison.
"Childe Roland."
Choate, J. H., his remark on old age.
Christmas-Eve.
Cleon.
Clive.
Confessions.
Count Gismond.
Cristina.
Death in the Desert, A. De Gustibus. Dis Aliter Visum. Donne, J.: compared with Browning; compared with Campion. Dramatic Lyric, origin of name. Dramatic Lyrics. Dramatic Romances. Dramatis Persons.
Eliot, George, Daniel Deronda and My Last Duchess.
Emerson, R. W.: pie and optimism;
his opinion of Tennyson's Ulysses.
Epistle, An, Containing Strange Medical Experience of
Karshish.
Eurydice.
Evelyn Hope.
"Eyes Calm Beside Thee".
Face, A.
Fano: seldom visited;
scene of picture of Guardian Angel.
Fifine at the Fair;
Epilogue to.
Forster, J., his praise of Paracelsus.
Fra Lippo Lippi.
Fulda, L., his play Schlaraffenland compared with Rephan.
Garden Fancies, Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis.
Glove, The
Goethe, doctrine of elective affinities.
Gold Hair.
Grammarian's Funeral, A.
Gray, T., early appreciation of mountain scenery.
Guardian Angel, The,
Hallam, A. H., home in Wimpole Street.
Hawthorne, N., visits Browning in Florence.
Holy Cross Day.
Home-Thoughts, from, Abroad.
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea.
How It Strikes a Contemporary.
"How They Brought the Good News."
Ibsen, H.: an original genius;
When We Dead Awaken,
A Doll's House.
In a Balcony.
In a Gondola.
Incident of the French Camp.
Ivàn Ivanovitch.
James Lee's Wife.
Jocoseria, Prologue to.
Johannes Agricola in Meditation.
Jonson, B., his remarks on Donne.
Karshish (see Epistle, An).
Keats, J.: prosody in Endymion;
Bright Star;
his conception of Beauty;
preface to Endymion;
his doctrine; of beauty.
Kipling, R., allusions to Browning in Stalky and Co.
Laboratory, The.
Landor, W. S., his poetic tribute to Browning.
Lanier, S., his criticism of The Ring and the Book.
La Saisiag, Prologue to.
Last Ride Together, The.
LeMoyne, Sarah Gowell, her reading aloud Meeting at Night.
Lessing, G. E., his: remark about truth.
Longfellow, H. W.: a better sonneteer than either Tennyson
or Browning;
Paul Revere's Ride compared with "How They Brought," etc.
Lost Leader, The.
Lost Mistress, The.
Love Among the Ruins.
Lover's Quarrel, A.
Luria.
Macbeth: German translation of;
pessimistic speech by.
Macready, W. C., relations with Browning.
Maeterlinck, M.: scene in Monna Vanna taken from Luria;
his praise of Browning's poetry.
Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha Meeting at Night Men and Women Mesmerism Mill, J. S., his opinion of Pauline Mulèykeh My Last Duchess My Star
Nationality in Drinks
Old Pictures in Florence Omar Khayyam, his figure of the Potter compared with Browning's, One Way of Love One Word More
Pacchiarotto:
Epilogue to,
Prologue to,
Paracelsus
Parting at Morning (see Meeting at Night)
Pauline
Pippa Passes
Pope: popularity of Essay on Man,
his prosody compared with that of Keats.
Porphyria's Lover
Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau
Prospice
Rabbi Ben Ezra
Rephan
Respectability
Reverie
Ring and the Book, The
Rossetti, D. G.: draws picture of Tennyson;
his opinion of Pauline.
Rossetti, W. M., meets the Brownings and the Tennysons.
Rudel to the Lady of Tripoli
Ruskin, J., his remark on The Bishop Orders His Tomb.
Saul
Schiller, F.: his poem Der Handschuh;
his poem Das Ideal und das Leben.
Schopenhauer, A.: father's financial help similar to Browning's;
his late-coming fame similar to Browning's,
his remark on Rafael's St. Cecilia.
Schumann, R. and Mrs., presentation to the Scandinavian king.
Shakespeare, W., Browning declares him to be the supreme poet.
Sharp, W., characterization of Sordello.
Shelley, P. B.: his vegetarianism imitated by Browning;
his lyrical power.
Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis (see Garden Fancies).
Sludge (Mr. ) the Medium.
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister.
Soul's Tragedy, A.
Sordello.
Statue and the Bust, The.
Stedman (mother of the poet, E.C.), her remarks on the health of
Mrs. Browning in Florence.
Summum Bonum.
Tennyson, A.: reading aloud from Maud;
Browning's letter to him;
a genius for adaptation;
wrote to please critics;
compared with Browning;
his lyrical power;
his lyrics compared with Browning's;
wrote no good sonnets;
Lotos-Eaters;
Ulysses;
Crossing the Bar;
St. Agnes' Eve compared with Johannes Agricola;
Locksley Hall;
his "rejected lovers" compared with Browning's;
his criticism of The Laboratory;
Crossing the Bar compared with Epilogue to Asolando.
Thackeray, Vanity Fair.
Thompson, F., his poetry compared with Austin's.
Time's Revenges.
Toccata of Galuppi's.
Transcendentalism.
Twins, The.
Two Poets of Croisic, the Epilogue to.
Up at a Villa—Down in the City.
Wagner, R.: his originality;
his slow-coming fame;
his operas.
Which.
Wister, O., criticism of Browning's poetry in his novel The
Virginian.
Wordsworth, W.: served as model for The Lost Leader;
his sincere love of the country.
Youth and Art.