My Last Duchess and Other Poems

by Browning, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780486277837
• ISBN10: 0486277836
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-12-23
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Features 42 works, among them a number of the Victorian master's famed dramatic monologues "Fra Lippo Lippi," "How It Strikes a Contemporary" and "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church" among them plus such memorable masterworks as "Love among the Ruins," "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and "Home Thoughts from Abroad."

Table of Contents

PIPPA PASSES: A DRAMA
  "Song ["The year's at the spring"]"
DRAMATIC LYRICS
  My Last Duchess
  Incident of the French Camp
  Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
  Johannes Agricola in Meditation
  Porphyria's Lover
  The Pied Piper of Hamelin
DRAMATIC ROMANCES AND LYRICS
  "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"
  The Lost Leader
  Home-Thoughts from Abroad
  The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
  Earth's Immortalities
  Meeting at Night
  Parting at Morning
MEN AND WOMEN
  Love Among the Ruins
  A Lover's Quarrel
  Up at a Villa-Down in the City
  Fra Lippo Lippi
  A Toccata of Galuppi's
  "An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician"
  A Serenade at the Villa
  My Star
  "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
  Love in a Life
  How It Strikes a Contemporary
  The Last Ride Together
  The Patriot
  Memorabilia
  Andrea del Sarto
  In a Year
  Two in the Campagna
  A Grammarian's Funeral
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
  "Dîs Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos Jours"
  "Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island "
  Confessions
  Youth and Art
  Apparent Failure
PACCHIAROTTO AND HOW HE WORKED IN DISTEMPER: WITH OTHER POEMS
  House
JOCOSERIA
  Wanting Is-What?
  Never the Time and the Place
UNCOLLECTED POEMS
  The Names
  Why I Am a Liberal
Alphabetical List of Titles
  Alphabetical List of First Lines