Robert Browning: How to Know Him

by William Lyon Phelps

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.