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PREFACE TO FIFTH EDITION
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PREFACE TO SIXTH EDITION
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GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS.
THE NATURE OF MR. BROWNING'S GENIUS. HIS CHOICE

AND TREATMENT OF SUBJECT. VERSIFICATION.

CONTINUOUS CHARACTER OF HIS WORK. 1
INTRODUCTORY GROUP.
"Pauline." "Paracelsus." "Sordello" 17
NON-CLASSIFIED POEMS.
DRAMAS.
"Strafford." "Pippa Passes." "King Victor and King Charles." "The
Return of the Druses." "A Blot in the 'Scutcheon."
"Colombe's
Birthday." "A Soul's Tragedy." "Luria." "In a
Balcony" (A Fragment)
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"THE RING AND THE BOOK" 75
TRANSCRIPTS FROM THE GREEK, with "Artemis Prologizes" 118
CLASSIFIED GROUPS.

ARGUMENTATIVE POEMS. SPECIAL PLEADINGS.
"Aristophanes' Apology," with "Balaustion's Adventure."
"Fifine at
the Fair." "Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society." "Bishop
Blougram's Apology." "Mr. Sludge, 'The Medium'" 121
ARGUMENTATIVE POEMS CONTINUED. REFLECTIONS.
"Christmas-Eve and Easter-day." "La Saiziaz." "Cleon." "An
Epistle
containing the Strange Medical Experience of
Karshish, the Arab
Physician." "Caliban upon Setebos; or,
Natural Theology in the
Island" 178
DIDACTIC POEMS.
"A Death in the Desert." "Rabbi Ben Ezra." "Deaf and Dumb: a group
by Woolner." "The Statue and the Bust" 198
CRITICAL POEMS.
"Old Pictures in Florence." "Respectability." "Popularity." "Master
Hugues of Saxe-Gotha." "A Light Woman."
"Transcendentalism."
"How it Strikes a Contemporary." "Dîs
aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de
nos Jours." "At the
'Mermaid.'" "House." "Shop." "Pisgah-Sights" I.

"Pisgah-Sights," II. "Bifurcation." "Epilogue" "Pacchiarotto and
other Poems" 207
EMOTIONAL POEMS. LOVE.
LYRICAL LOVE POEMS. "One Word More. To E. B. B." "Prospice."
"Numpholeptos." "Prologue" (to "Pacchiarotto and other
Poems.").
"Natural Magic." "Magical Nature." Introductory
Poem to "The Two
Poets of Croisic." Concluding Poem to "The Two Poets of Croisic" (a
Tale). DRAMATIC LOVE POEMS.
"Cristina." "Evelyn Hope."
"Love among the Ruins." "A
Lovers' Quarrel." "By the Fireside."
"Any Wife to any
Husband." "Two in the Campagna." "Love in a
Life." "Life in a Love." "The Lost Mistress." "A Woman's Last Word."

"A
Serenade at the Villa." "One Way of Love." "Rudel to the
Lady
of Tripoli." "In Three Days." "In a Gondola."
"Porphyria's Lover."
"James Lee's Wife." "The Worst of it." "Too Late." 219
EMOTIONAL POEMS CONTINUED.
RELIGIOUS, ARTISTIC, AND EXPRESSIVE OF THE
FIERCER
EMOTIONS.
"Saul." "Epilogue to Dramatis Personæ." "Fears and
Scruples." "Fra
Lippo Lippi." "Abt Vogler." "Pictor
Ignotus." "The Bishop orders his
Tomb at Saint Praxed's
Church." "A Toccata of Galuppi's." "The
Guardian-Angel: a
picture at Fano." "Eurydice to Orpheus: a picture
by
Leighton." "A Face." "Andrea del Sarto." "The Laboratory."

"My Last Duchess." "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister." "The
Confessional." "A Forgiveness." 237
HISTORICAL POEMS, OR POEMS FOUNDED ON FACT.
"Red Cotton Night-Cap Country; or, Turf and Towers."
"Cenciaja."
"The Two Poets of Croisic." "The Inn Album."
"The Heretic's
Tragedy: a Middle-Age Interlude" 254
ROMANTIC POEMS.
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." "The Flight of the

Duchess" 271
HUMOROUS OR SATIRICAL POEMS.
"Holy-Cross Day." "Pacchiarotto, and how he Worked in
Distemper."
"Filippo Baldinucci on the Privilege of Burial." "Up at a Villa--Down
in the City." "Another Way of Love."
"Garden Fancies--II. Sibrandus
Schafnaburgensis" 277
DESCRIPTIVE POEMS.

"De Gustibus--." "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad." "The
Englishman
in Italy" 285
NON-CLASSIFIED POEMS CONTINUED.
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS--INCLUDING SONGS, LEGENDS,
DRAMATIC
POEMS, AND EPISODES.
"The Lost Leader." "Nationality in Drinks." "Garden
Fancies--I. The
Flower's Name." "Earth's Immortalities."
"Home-Thoughts, from the
Sea." "My Star." "Misconceptions." "A Pretty Woman." "Women and
Roses." "Before." "After."
"Memorabilia." "The Last Ride Together."
"A Grammarian's
Funeral." "Johannes Agricola in Meditation."
"Confessions." "May and Death." "Youth and Art." "A Likeness."

"Appearances." "St. Martin's Summer." Prologue to "La
Saisiaz."
"Cavalier Tunes." "How they Brought the Good News from Ghent to
Aix." "Song." "Incident of the French Camp."
"Count Gismond."
"The Boy and the Angel." "The Glove." "The Twins." "The Pied Piper
of Hamelin; a Child's Story." "Gold Hair: a Story of Pornic." "Hervé
Riel." "Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr." "Meeting at night."
"Parting at Morning."
"The Patriot: an Old Story." "Instans
Tyrannus."
"Mesmerism." "Time's Revenges." "The Italian in
England."
"Protus." "Apparent Failure." "Waring" 289
CONCLUDING GROUP.
DRAMATIC IDYLS. JOCOSERIA.
DRAMATIC IDYLS, I. SERIES: "Martin Relph." "Pheidippides."

"Halbert and Hob." "Ivàn Ivànovitch." "Tray." "Ned Bratts."
DRAMATIC IDYLS, II. SERIES. "Prologue." "Echetlos." "Clive."
"Mulèykeh." "Pietro of Abano." "Doctor ----." "Pan and
Luna."
"Epilogue." "Jocoseria." "Wanting is--what?"
"Donald." "Solomon
and Balkis." "Cristina and Monaldeschi." "Mary Wollstonecraft and
Fuseli." "Adam, Lilith, and Eve."
"Ixion." "Jochanan Hakkadosh."
"Never the Time and the
Place." "Pambo" 308

SUPPLEMENT.
Ferishtah's Fancies 331
Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their day:
To wit:
Bernard de Mandeville, Daniel Bartoli, Christopher
Smart, George
Bubb Dodington, Francis Furini, Gerard de
Lairesse, and Charles
Avison. Introduced by a Dialogue
between Apollo and the Fates:
concluded by Another between
John Fust and his Friends. 339
NOTE 363
BIBLIOGRAPHY 365
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF BROWNING'S WORKS 395
INDEX