Robert Browning (1812 ? 1889) was one of the defining figures of the Victorian age. Famous in his lifetime for his elopement and marriage to Elizabeth Barratt, his critical reputation grew steadily in the years following her early death. Browning s mastery of dramatic verse was evident throughout his career, from such chillingly unforgettable monologues as ?My Last Duchess? and ?Porphyria? to the mature work included in his collection Dramatis Personae. This selection, chosen by leading scholars, reveals the innovation, complexity and profound psychological insight that have ensured Browning s enduring reputation and his continuing appeal to readers today.
Browning: Selected Poems results from a completely fresh appraisal of the canon, text and context of the writer s work. The poems are presented in the order of their composition and in the text in which they were first published, giving a unique insight into the development of Browning s art. An introduction and chronology offer useful background material, whilst annotations and headnotes provide details of composition, publication, sources and contemporary reception. This authoritative yet accessible selection should become the first point of reference for scholar, student and general reader alike.
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Longman Annotated English Poets introduces a new selected poems edition of Robert Brownings work.
Introduction
1. Pauline
2. Porphyria
3. Johannes Agricola
4. Pippa
Passes
5. The Pied Piper of Hamelin
6. Waring
7. My Last Duchess
8. Soliloquy
of the Spanish Cloister
9. The Lost Leader
10. The Laboratory
11. Garden
Fancies
12. How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix
13. Pictor
Ignotus
14. Tomb at St Praxed's
15. Italy in England
16. Home-Thoughts, from
Abroad
17. England in Italy
18. In a Year
19. Evelyn Hope
20. Bishop
Blougram's Apology
21. The Patriot
22. Respectability
23. Childe Roland to
the Dark Tower came
24. A Toccata of Galuppi's
25. A Lovers' Quarrel
26.
Andrea del Sarto
27. Old Pictures in Florence
28. How it Strikes a
Contemporary
29. Popularity
30. By the Fire-side
31. Fra Lippo Lippi
32. An
Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab
Physician
33. Love Among the Ruins
34. Holy-Cross Day
35. Memorabilia
36. Two
in the Campagna
37. Cleon
38. A Grammarians Funeral
39. One Word More
40.
Caliban Upon Setebos
41. A Likeness
42. Rabbi Ben Ezra
43. James Lee
44. Dīs
Aliter Visum
45. Youth and Art
46. Apparent Failure
47. A Death in the Desert
48. Abt Vogler
49. Mr Sludge, the Medium Appendix A: Essay on Shelley
Appendix B: Ruskins Letter to Browning about "Men and Women", and Brownings
reply Appendix C: Bells and Pomegranates, Men and Women, and Dramatis Personae
John Woolford and Daniel Karlin are both Professors of English at the University of Sheffield.
Joseph Phelan is a Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature at De Montfort University.
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