Full Description
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.
Contents
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.
