First published in 1966. This title complies a selection of critical articles by various authors on the poetry of Robert Browning. The editor has collected a number of important general studies of Brownings mind and art by English and American critics, as well as studies on individual poems. This book will be of interest to students of literature.
Editors Note; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part One: General Studies
before 1914;
1. Henry James: Browning in Westminster Abbey [ 1890]
2. George
Santayana: From The Poetry of Barbarism [ 1900]
3. Percy Lubbock: Robert
Browning [ 1912]; Part Two: General Studies after 1914;
4. Hugh Sykes Davies:
Browning [ 1962]
5. Edwin Muir: Robert Browning [ 1949]
6. Kingsbury Badger:
See the Christ Stand!: Brownings Religion [ 1955]
7. William C. Devane: The
Virgin and the Dragon [ 1947]
8. William O. Raymond: The Jewelled Bow: A
Study in Brownings Imagery and Humanism [ 1955]
9. Robert Langbaum: The
Dramatic Element: Truth as Perspective [ 1957]; Part Three: Studies of Single
Poems;
10. Robert Preyer: Robert Browning: A Reading of the Early Narratives
[ 1959]
11. John Stuart Mill: Pauline [ 1833]
12. Elmer Edgar Stoll: Brownings
In a Balcony [ 1944]
13. Roma A. King, Jr: Browning: Mage and Maker A
Study in Poetic Purpose and Method [ 1961]
14. Richard D. Altick: A
Grammarians Funeral: Brownings Praise of Folly? [ 1963]
15. Isobel
Armstrong: Brownings Mr Sludge, The Medium [ 1964]
16. John Howard:
Calibans Mind [ 1963]
17. Watson Kirkconnell: The Epilogue to Dramatis
Personae [ 1926]
18. F. E. L. Priestley: A Reading of La Saisiaz [ 1955]; Index
Philip Drew