The Major Works

by Browning, Robert; Roberts, Adam; Karllin, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780192806260
• ISBN10: 0192806262
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Browning's poetry and prose chosen from the whole range of his career to give the essence of his work andthinking.Browning's work ranges from the beguiling magic of 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' to the epic book-length poem The Ring and the Book. This comprehensive selection includes over eighty of his shorter poems, amongst them his most famous and best-loved dramatic monologues, as well as the complete text ofmany of his longer poems (Pauline, Pippa Passes, 'Bishop Blougram's Apology'). It contains three books from The Ring and the Book and Browning's only significant piece of critical writing (the 'Essay on Shelley'). This edition also selects generously from the love letters between Browning andElizabeth Barrett, as well as from Browning's more general correspondence - letters which cast a unique light upon the poems themselves, and poetry in general.

Author Biography

Adam Roberts is a Reader in English at the University of London, Royal Holloway. Daniel Karllin is a professor of English at Boston University.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Chronology	xxviii
Note on the Text	xxx
Pauline (1833)	1	(52)
Paracelsus (1835)
Part V Paracelsus Attains	29	(24)
Pippa Passes (1841)	53	(521)
Dramatic Lyrics (1842)
Cavalier Tunes	99	(2)
My Last Duchess	101	(2)
Count Gismond	103	(4)
Incident of the French Camp	107	(1)
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister	108	(3)
In a Gondola	111	(7)
Artemis Prologizes	118	(3)
Johannes Agricola in Meditation	121	(1)
Porphyria's Lover	122	(2)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin	124	(9)
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)
`How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix'	133	(2)
Pictor Ignotus	135	(2)
The Englishman in Italy	137	(7)
The Lost Leader	144	(1)
The Laboratory	145	(2)
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church	147	(3)
The Boy and the Angel	150	(3)
Garden Fancies ii (Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis)	153	(2)
Meeting at Night/Parting at Morning	155	(2)
Men and Women (1855)
Love Among the Ruins	157	(2)
Evelyn Hope	159	(2)
Up at a Villa---Down in the City	161	(3)
By the Fire-Side	164	(10)
Fra Lippo Lippi	174	(10)
A Toccata of Galuppi's	184	(2)
An Epistle . . . of Karshish, the Arab Physician	186	(8)
`Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'	194	(7)
Respectability	201	(1)
The Statue and the Bust	202	(7)
How It Strikes a Contemporary	209	(3)
Bishop Blougram's Apology	212	(26)
Memorabilia	238	(1)
Love in a Life	238	(1)
Life in a Love	239	(1)
Andrea del Sarto	240	(6)
In a Year	246	(3)
Saul	249	(13)
`De Gustibus---'	262	(1)
Women and Roses	263	(2)
Holy-Cross Day	265	(4)
Cleon	269	(9)
Popularity	278	(3)
Two in the Campagna	281	(2)
A Grammarian's Funeral	283	(4)
`Transcendentalism: A Poem in Twelve Books'	287	(1)
One Word More	288	(7)
Dramatis Personae (1864)
Gold Hair	295	(5)
Abt Vogler	300	(4)
Rabbi Ben Ezra	304	(7)
A Death in the Desert	311	(17)
Caliban upon Setebos	328	(8)
Confessions	336	(1)
Prospice	337	(1)
Youth and Art	338	(3)
A Likeness	341	(2)
Apparent Failure	343	(2)
Epilogue	345	(4)
The Ring and the Book (1868--9)
Book I The Ring and the Book	349	(35)
Book X The Pope	384	(53)
Book XI Guido	437	(61)
Fifine at the Fair (1872)
Prologue (Amphibian)	498	(3)
Epilogue (The Householder)	501	(2)
Aristophanes' Apology (1875)
`But---lend me the psalterion!'	503	(4)
Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper, with Other Poems (1876)
House	507	(2)
Numpholeptos	509	(4)
Dramatic Idyls (1879)
Tray	513	(2)
Dramatic Idyls, Second Series (1880)
Clive	515	(10)
Jocoseria (1883)
`Wanting is---what?'	525	(1)
Donald	525	(7)
Ixion	532	(2)
Never the Time and the Place	534	(3)
Ferishtah's Fancies (1884)
Prologue	537	(1)
`So the head aches . . .'	538	(1)
`Verse-making was least of my virtues . . .'	538	(2)
Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day (1887)
Apollo and the Fates: A Prologue	540	(11)
With Christopher Smart	551	(8)
Asolando (1889)
Prologue	559	(1)
Bad Dreams	560	(5)
Inapprehensiveness	565	(1)
Development	566	(4)
Epilogue	570	(1)
Uncollected Poems
Helen's Tower	571	(1)
`Oh Love, Love'	571	(1)
Why I Am a Liberal	572	(1)
To Edward FitzGerald	572	(2)
PROSE SELECTION
Essay on Shelley (1852)	574	(156)
Selected Letters
Courtship Correspondence
R.B. to E.B.B., 10 Jan. 1845	591	(1)
E.B.B. to R.B., 11 Jan. 1845	592	(1)
R.B. to E.B.B., 13 Jan. 1845	593	(2)
E.B.B. to R.B., 15 Jan. 1845	595	(2)
R.B. to E.B.B., 27 Jan. 1845	597	(2)
E.B.B. to R.B., 3 Feb. 1845	599	(3)
R.B. to E.B.B., 11 Feb. 1845	602	(4)
E.B.B. to R.B., 17 Feb. 1845	606
R.B. to E.B.B., 26 Feb. 1845	599	(14)
E.B.B. to R.B., 27 Feb. 1845	613	(3)
R.B. to E.B.B., 15 Apr. 1845	616	(1)
E.B.B. to R.B., 17 Apr. 1845	617	(2)
R.B. to E.B.B., 30 Apr. 1845	619	(1)
E.B.B. to R.B., 1 May 1845	620	(2)
R.B. to E.B.B., 3 May 1845	622	(3)
E.B.B. to R.B., 23 May 1845	625	(2)
R.B. to E.B.B., 24 May 1845	627	(3)
E.B.B. to R.B., 25 May 1845	630	(2)
R.B. to E.B.B., 26 May 1845	632	(1)
R.B. to E.B.B., 14 June 1845	633	(1)
E.B.B. to R.B., 11 July 1845	634	(1)
R.B. to E.B.B., 13 July 1845	635	(3)
R.B. to E.B.B., 30 Aug. 1845	638	(1)
E.B.B. to R.B., 31 Aug. 1845	639	(2)
R.B. to E.B.B., 13 Sept. 1845	641	(3)
E.B.B. to R.B., 16 Sept. 1845	644	(2)
R.B. to E.B.B., 16 Sept. 1845	646	(4)
E.B.B. to R.B., 17 Sept. 1845	650	(1)
R.B. to E.B.B., 18 Sept. 1845	651	(2)
R.B. to E.B.B., 25 Sept. 1845	653	(2)
E.B.B. to R.B., 26 Sept. 1845	655	(1)
R.B. to E.B.B., 16 Nov. 1845	656	(1)
R.B. to E.B.B., 7 Mar. 1846	657	(2)
R.B. to E.B.B., 15 Mar. 1846	659	(2)
E.B.B. to R.B., 7 Apr. 1846	661	(2)
R.B. to E.B.B., 19 May 1846	663	(1)
E.B.B. to R.B., 2 Aug. 1846	664	(3)
E.B.B. to R.B., 9 Sept. 1846	667	(1)
R.B. to E.B.B., 10 Sept. 1846 (1)	668	(1)
R.B. to E.B.B., 10 Sept. 1846 (2)	669	(1)
E.B.B. to R.B., 10 Sept. 1846	670	(1)
R.B. to E.B.B., 12 Sept. 1846	670	(1)
E.B.B. to R.B., 12 Sept. 1846	671	(1)
R.B. to E.B.B., 18 Sept. 1846	672	(1)
E.B.B. to R.B., 18 Sept. 1846	673	(2)
Other Selected Letters
R.B. to Euphrasia Haworth, 24 July 1838	675	(2)
R.B. to Alfred Domett, 23 Mar. 1840	677	(1)
R.B. to Euphrasia Haworth, May 1840	678	(1)
R.B. to Macready, 23 Aug. 1840	679	(1)
R.B. to Alfred Domett, 22 May 1842	680	(2)
R.B. to Alfred Domett, 13 July 1842	682	(1)
R.B. to Arabella and Henrietta Barrett, 8 Feb. 1847	683	(1)
R.B. to Thomas Carlyle, 14 May 1847	684	(2)
Ruskin to R.B., 2 Dec. 1855	686	(5)
R.B. to Ruskin, 10 Dec. 1855	691	(2)
R.B. to Euphrasia Haworth, 20 July 1861	693	(2)
R.B. to Isabella Blagden, 19 Sept. 1862	695	(1)
R.B. to Isabella Blagden, 19 Jan. 1863	696	(1)
R.B. to Julia Wedgwood, 27 June 1864	697	(2)
R.B. to Julia Wedgwood, 19--21 Aug. 1864	699	(1)
R.B. to Julia Wedgwood, 2 Sept. 1864	700	(2)
R.B. to Isabella Blagden, 19 Dec. 1864	702	(1)
R.B. to Isabella Blagden, 19 Sept. 1867	703	(1)
Julia Wedgwood to R.B., 15 Nov. 1868	704	(3)
R.B. to Julia Wedgwood, 19 Nov. 1868	707	(2)
Julia Wedgwood to R.B., 3 Dec. 1868	709	(2)
R.B. to Julia Wedgwood, 21 Jan. 1869	711	(2)
Julia Wedgwood to R.B., 22 Jan. 1869	713	(1)
Julia Wedgwood to R.B., 30 Jan. 1869	714	(2)
R.B. to Julia Wedgwood, 1 Feb. 1869	716	(1)
R.B. to Julia Wedgwood, 12 Feb. 1869	717	(1)
Julia Wedgwood to R.B., 14 Feb. 1869	718	(2)
Julia Wedgwood to R.B., 21 Feb. 1869	720	(1)
R.B. to Julia Wedgwood, 22 Feb. 1869	721	(2)
Julia Wedgwood to R.B., 5 Mar. 1869	723	(1)
R.B. to Julia Wedgwood, 8 Mar. 1869	724	(2)
R.B. to Isabella Blagden, 19 Jan. 1870	726	(1)
R.B. to Isabella Blagden, 19 Aug. 1871	727	(1)
R.B. to Mrs George Henry Lewis, 9 May 1876	727	(1)
R.B. to a Correspondent, 11 May 1876	728	(1)
R.B. to Tennyson, 5 Aug. 1889	729	(1)
Notes	730	(92)
Further Reading	822	(3)
Index of Titles	825	(3)
Index of First Lines	828