Indeed, Browning has the grand manner, for all it is more that of the Scandinavian Jarl than of the Italian count or Spanish grandee.
And ever, below all the stress and failure, below all the triumph of his toil, is the beauty of his dream. It was "a surpassing Spirit" that went from out our midst.
"One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,
Never doubted clouds would break,
Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,
Sleep to wake."
"Speed, fight on, fare ever There as here!" are the last words of this brave soul. In truth, "the air seems bright with his past presence yet."
"Sun-treader — life and light be thine for ever;
Thou art gone from us — years go by — and spring
Gladdens, and the young earth is beautiful,
Yet thy songs come not — other bards arise,
But none like thee — they stand — thy majesties,
Like mighty works which tell some Spirit there
Hath sat regardless of neglect and scorn,
Till, its long task completed, it hath risen
And left us, never to return."
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Index.
[This index is included to allow the reader to browse the main subjects included in this book. The numbers in brackets are the number of mentions in the original index — as each mention may be long or short, these numbers should be used only as a general indication.]
"Abt Vogler" [3]
"After" [1]
"Agamemnon of Aeschylus" [1]
Alma ——, Letter to [1]
"Amphibian" [1]
Ancona [1]
"Andrea del Sarto" [2]
"Andromeda" [1]
"Another way of Love" [1]
"Any Wife to any Husband" [2]
"Apparent Failure" [2]
"Appearances" [1]
Appearance, Browning's personal [2]
Aprile [3]
"Aristophanes' Apology" [1]
"Ask not one least word of praise" [1]
"Asolando" [8]
Asolo [2]
`The Athenaeum' [1]
"Aurora Leigh" [5]
Bagni di Lucca [2]
Bailey's "Festus" [1]
"Balaustion's Adventure" [2]
Balzac [6]
Barrett, Arabella [2]
Barrett, Edward [1]
Barrett, Mr. [3]
"Beatrice Signorini" [1]
Beautiful in Verse, the [1]
Beethoven [1]
"Before" [1]
"Bells and Pomegranates" [3]
"Ben Karshook's Wisdom" [1]
Berdoe, E. [3]
"Bifurcations" [1]
"Bishop Blougram" [2]
Blake, William [1]
"A Blot in the 'Scutcheon" [6]
Bossuet and Browning [1]
Browning, Clara [1]
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: Browning's early influence on [1];
born March 4, 1809 (really 1806) [1]; her girlhood and early work [1];
death of brother [1]; residence in London [1];
"The Cry of the Children" [1]; friendships with Horne and Kenyon [1];
her appreciation of Browning's poems [1]; correspondence with him [1];
engagement [1]; acquaintance with Mrs. Jameson [1]; marriage [1];
Mr. Barrett's resentment [1]; journey to Paris [1]; thence to Pisa [1];
Browning's love for his wife [1]; "Sonnets from the Portuguese" [1];
in spring to Florence [1]; to Ancona, via Ravenna, in June [1];
winter at Casa Guidi [1]; "Aurora Leigh" [1]; description of poetess [2];
birth of son in 1849 [1]; "Casa Guidi Windows" [1];
1850, spring in Rome [1]; proposal to confer poet-laureateship
on Mrs. Browning [2]; 1851, visits England [1]; winter in Paris [1];
she is enthusiastic about Napoleon III. and interested in Spiritualism [1];
summer in London [1]; autumn at Casa Guidi [1]; winter 1853-4 in Rome,
1856 "Aurora Leigh", death of Kenyon, legacies [1];
1857, death of Mr. Barrett [1]; 1858, delicacy of Mrs. Browning [1];
July 1858, Brownings travel to Normandy; "Two Poems by Elizabeth Barrett
and Robert Browning", 1854 [1]; 1860, "Poems before Congress",
and death of Arabella Barrett [1]; "North and South" [1];
return to Casa Guidi, and death on 28th June 1861 [2].
Browning, Reuben [3]
Browning, Robert: born in London in 1812 [3]; his literary and artistic
antecedents and contemporaries [1]; his parentage and ancestry [2];
concerning traces of Semitic origin [1]; his sisters [1]; his father [1];
his mother [2]; his uncle, Reuben Browning [1]; the Camberwell home [1];
his childhood [1]; early poems [1]; translation of the odes of Horace [1];
goes to school at Peckham [1]; his holiday afternoons [1];
"Death of Harold" [1]; criticisms of Miss Flower and Mr. Fox [1];
he reads Shelley's and Keats's poems [2]; he has a tutor [1];
attends Gower Street University College [1]; he decides to be a poet [1];
writes "Pauline", 1832 [1]; it is published in 1833 [1];
"Pauline" [1]; criticisms thereon [1]; Rossetti and "Pauline",
studies at British Museum [2]; travels in 1833 to Russia [1];
to Italy [1]; return to Camberwell, 1834 [1]; and begins "Paracelsus",
sonnet signed "Z", 1834 [1]; love for Venice [1]; "Paracelsus" [2];
criticisms thereon [2]; he meets Macready [1]; "Narses" [1];
he meets Talfourd, Wordsworth, Landor [1]; "Strafford" [1];
his dramas [1]; his love of the country [1]; "Pippa Passes" [2];
"Sordello" [1]; origin of "The Ring and the Book", 1865 [1];
"The Ring and the Book" [1]; "The Inn Album" [1]; "Men and Women" [1];
proposed "Transcripts from Life" [1]; "Flower o' the Vine" [1];
correspondence between him and Miss Barrett [1]; meeting in 1846 [1];
engagement [1]; marriage, 12th September 1846 [1]; sojourn in Pisa [1];
they go to Florence [1]; to Ancona, via Ravenna [1];
"The Guardian Angel" [1]; Casa Guidi [1]; birth of son, March 9th, 1849 [1];
they go to Vallombrosa and Bagni di Lucca for the autumn,
and winter at Casa Guidi [1]; spring of 1850 in Rome [1];
"Two in the Campagna" [1]; 1851, they visit England [1];
description of Browning [1]; winter 1851-2 in Paris with Robert Browning,
senior [1]; Browning writes Prefatory Essay to Moxon's edition
of Shelley's Letters [1]; midsummer, Baths of Lucca [1]; in Florence [1];
"In a Balcony" [1]; winter in Rome, 1853-4 [1]; the work written there [1];
"Ben Karshook's Wisdom" [1]; "Men and Women" published [1]; Kenyon's death,
and legacies to the Brownings [1]; poems written between 1855-64 [1];
July 1858, Brownings go to Normandy [1]; "Legend of Pornic",
"Gold Hair" [1]; autumn of 1859 in Sienna [1]; winter 1860-61 in Rome [1];
death of Mrs. Browning, June 1861 [1]; "Prospice" [1];
1866, Browning loses his father; Miss Sarianna resides with Browning [1];
his ways of life [1]; first collected edition of his works, 1868 [1];
first part of "The Ring and the Book" published [1]; "Herve Riel" [1];
Tauchnitz edition, 1872 [1]; "Bishop Blougram" [1]; "Selections" [1];
"La Saisiaz", 1877 [1]; "The Two Poets of Croisic" [1];
later works [1]; "Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau",
"Red Cotton Nightcap Country" [2]; "Fifine at the Fair" [3];
"Jocoseria" [1]; 1881, Browning Society established [1];
his latter years [1]; revisits Asolo [1]; Palazzo Rezzonico [1];
religious belief [1]; death, December 12th, 1889 [2];
funeral [1]; to be estimated by a new definition [1];
as poet, rather than as thinker [1]; his love of life [1];
his, like Bossuet's, a Hebrew genius fecundated by Christianity [1];
his artistic relations to Death and Sex [1]; where, in standpoint,
he differs from Tennyson [1]; as to quality of his MASS of work [1];
intellectually exploited [1]; his difficulties, and their attraction
to many [1]; his attitude to the future, influence, and significance [1];
summary of his life-work [1].
Browning, Robert Wiedemann Barrett [5]
Browning, Robert (senior) [8]
Browning, Sarianna (Mrs.) [4]
Browning, Sarianna (Miss) [3]
Browning Society, the [2]
Browning, William Shergold [1]
Byron [1]
"By the Fireside" [1]