A Selection of Poems
1835–1864

Originally published in 1911, this book contains 35 poems selected from Robert Browning's works of the years 1835 to 1864.

Robert Browning (Author), W. T. Young (Edited by)

9781107663411, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 29 May 2014

322 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2 cm, 0.53 kg

Originally published in 1911, and reprinted many times thereafter, this book contains 35 poems selected from Browning's works of the years 1835 to 1864, including some of his more famous pieces, such as 'Pippa Passes' and 'My Last Duchess'. Young introduces the volume with an essay on Browning's interaction with the literature and poetry of his era, and the notes at the end of the text explain some of the more difficult allusions in the poems. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Browning or Victorian poetry more generally.

Preface
Introduction
1. Paracelsus. Heap cassia, sandal-buds, and stripes
2. Pippa passes. The year's at the spring
Part I. Dramatic Lyrics: 3. Cavalier tunes
4. The lost leader
5. 'How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix'
6. Garden fancies
7. Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister
8. The lost mistress
9. Evelyn Hope
10. Home-thoughts, from abroad
11. Home-thoughts, from the sea
12. Saul
13. By the fire-side
14. The guardian angel
Part II. Dramatic Romances: 15. Incident of the French camp
16. My last duchess
17. The last ride together
18. The Pied Piper of Hamelin: a child's story
19. A grammarian's funeral
20. Holy-cross day
21. The statue and the bust
22. 'Childe Roland to the dark tower came'
Part III. Men and Women: 23. An epistle containing the strange medical experience of Karshish, the Arab physician
24. Fra Lippo Lippi
25. Andrea del Sarto (called 'the faultless painter')
26. The bishop orders his tomb at Saint Praxed's church
27. Bishop Blougram's apology
28. One word more
Part IV. Dramatis Personae: 29. Abt Vogler
30. Rabbi Ben Ezra
31. Caliban upon Setebos
or, natural theology in the island
32. Confessions
33. Prospice
34. A face
35. The ring and the book. O lyric love, half-angel and half-bird
Notes.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]