A. ORR.
Dec. 1st, 1891.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION | [ v ] |
| PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION | [ vi ] |
| PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION | [ vii ] |
| PREFACE TO FIFTH EDITION | [ viii ] |
| PREFACE TO SIXTH EDITION | [ ix ] |
| GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS. | |
| THE NATURE OF MR. BROWNING'S GENIUS. HIS CHOICE AND TREATMENT OF SUBJECT. VERSIFICATION. CONTINUOUS CHARACTER OF HIS WORK. | [ 1 ] |
| INTRODUCTORY GROUP. | |
| "Pauline." "Paracelsus." "Sordello" | [ 17 ] |
| NON-CLASSIFIED POEMS. | |
| DRAMAS. | |
| "Strafford." "Pippa Passes." "King Victor and King Charles." "The Return of the Druses." "A Blot in the 'Scutcheon." "Colombe's Birthday." "A Soul's Tragedy." "Luria." " In Balcony" (A Fragment) | [ 53 ] |
| "THE RING AND THE BOOK" | [ 75 ] |
| TRANSCRIPTS FROM THE GREEK, with "Artemis Prologizes" | [ 118 ] |
| CLASSIFIED GROUPS. | |
| ARGUMENTATIVE POEMS. SPECIAL PLEADINGS. | |
| "Aristophanes' Apology," with "Balaustion's Adventure." "Fifine at the Fair." "Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society." "Bishop Blougram's Apology." "Mr. Sludge, 'The Medium'" | [ 121 ] |
| ARGUMENTATIVE POEMS CONTINUED. REFLECTIONS. | |
| "Christmas-Eve and Easter-day." "La Saiziaz." "Cleon." "An Epistle containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician." "Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island" | [ 178 ] |
| DIDACTIC POEMS. | |
| "A Death in the Desert." "Rabbi Ben Ezra." "Deaf and Dumb: a group by Woolner." "The Statue and the Bust" | [ 198 ] |
| CRITICAL POEMS. | |
| "Old Pictures in Florence." "Respectability." "Popularity." "Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha." "A Light Woman." "Transcendentalism." "How it Strikes a Contemporary." "Dîs aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de nos Jours." "At the 'Mermaid.'" "House." "Shop." "Pisgah-Sights" I. "Pisgah-Sights," II. "Bifurcation." "Epilogue" "Pacchiarotto and other Poems" | [ 207 ] |
| EMOTIONAL POEMS. LOVE. | |
| LYRICAL LOVE POEMS. "One Word More. To E. B. B." "Prospice." "Numpholeptos." "Prologue" (to "Pacchiarotto and other Poems."). "Natural Magic." "Magical Nature." Introductory Poem to "The Two Poets of Croisic." Concluding Poem to "The Two Poets of Croisic" (a Tale). DRAMATIC LOVE POEMS. "Cristina." "Evelyn Hope." "Love among the Ruins." "A Lovers' Quarrel." "By the Fireside." "Any Wife to any Husband." "Two in the Campagna." "Love in a Life." "Life in a Love." "The Lost Mistress." "A Woman's Last Word." "A Serenade at the Villa." "One Way of Love." "Rudel to the Lady of Tripoli." "In Three Days." "In a Gondola." "Porphyria's Lover." "James Lee's Wife." "The Worst of it." "Too Late." | [ 219 ] |
| EMOTIONAL POEMS CONTINUED. | |
| RELIGIOUS, ARTISTIC, AND EXPRESSIVE OF THE FIERCER EMOTIONS. | |
| "Saul." "Epilogue to Dramatis Personæ." "Fears and Scruples." "Fra Lippo Lippi." "Abt Vogler." "Pictor Ignotus." "The Bishop orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church." "A Toccata of Galuppi's." "The Guardian-Angel: a picture at Fano." "Eurydice to Orpheus: a picture by Leighton." "A Face." "Andrea del Sarto." "The Laboratory." "My Last Duchess." "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister." "The Confessional." "A Forgiveness." | [ 237 ] |
| HISTORICAL POEMS, OR POEMS FOUNDED ON FACT. | |
| "Red Cotton Night-Cap Country; or, Turf and Towers." "Cenciaja." "The Two Poets of Croisic." "The Inn Album." "The Heretic's Tragedy: a Middle-Age Interlude" | [ 254 ] |
| ROMANTIC POEMS. | |
| "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." "The Flight of the Duchess" | [ 271 ] |
| HUMOROUS OR SATIRICAL POEMS. | |
| "Holy-Cross Day." "Pacchiarotto, and how he Worked in Distemper." "Filippo Baldinucci on the Privilege of Burial." "Up at a Villa—Down in the City." "Another Way of Love." "Garden Fancies—II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis" | [ 277 ] |
| DESCRIPTIVE POEMS. | |
| "De Gustibus—." "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad." "The Englishman in Italy" | [ 285 ] |
| NON-CLASSIFIED POEMS CONTINUED. | |
| MISCELLANEOUS POEMS—INCLUDING SONGS, LEGENDS, DRAMATIC POEMS, AND EPISODES. | |
| "The Lost Leader." "Nationality in Drinks." "Garden Fancies—I. The Flower's Name." "Earth's Immortalities." "Home-Thoughts, from the Sea." "My Star." "Misconceptions." "A Pretty Woman." "Women and Roses." "Before." "After." "Memorabilia." "The Last Ride Together." "A Grammarian's Funeral." "Johannes Agricola in Meditation." "Confessions." "May and Death." "Youth and Art." "A Likeness." "Appearances." "St. Martin's Summer." Prologue to "La Saisiaz." "Cavalier Tunes." "How they Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix." "Song." "Incident of the French Camp." "Count Gismond." "The Boy and the Angel." "The Glove." "The Twins." "The Pied Piper of Hamelin; a Child's Story." "Gold Hair: a Story of Pornic." "Hervé Riel." "Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr." "Meeting at night." "Parting at Morning." "The Patriot: an Old Story." "Instans Tyrannus." "Mesmerism." "Time's Revenges." "The Italian in England." "Protus." "Apparent Failure." "Waring" | [ 289 ] |
| CONCLUDING GROUP. | |
| DRAMATIC IDYLS. JOCOSERIA. | |
| DRAMATIC IDYLS, I. SERIES: "Martin Relph." "Pheidippides." "Halbert and Hob." "Ivàn Ivànovitch." "Tray." "Ned Bratts." DRAMATIC IDYLS, II. SERIES. "Prologue." "Echetlos." "Clive." "Mulèykeh." "Pietro of Abano." "Doctor ——." "Pan and Luna." "Epilogue." "Jocoseria." "Wanting is—what?" "Donald." "Solomon and Balkis." "Cristina and Monaldeschi." "Mary Wollstonecraft and Fuseli." "Adam, Lilith, and Eve." "Ixion." "Jochanan Hakkadosh." "Never the Time and the Place." "Pambo" | [ 308 ] |
| SUPPLEMENT. | |
| Ferishtah's Fancies | [ 331 ] |
| Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their day: To wit: Bernard de Mandeville, Daniel Bartoli, Christopher Smart, George Bubb Dodington, Francis Furini, Gerard de Lairesse, and Charles Avison. Introduced by a Dialogue between Apollo and the Fates: concluded by Another between John Fust and his Friends. | [ 339 ] |
| NOTE | [ 363 ] |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | [ 365 ] |
| ALPHABETICAL LIST OF BROWNING'S WORKS | [ 395 ] |
| INDEX TO FIRST LINES OF POEMS | [ 411 ] |
| INDEX | [ 417 ] |