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PREFACE TO FIFTH EDITION viii

PREFACE TO SIXTH EDITION ix
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) 53
"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." "D?s?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 Person?." "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 TO FIRST LINES OF POEMS 411
INDEX 417
HANDBOOK TO BROWNING'S WORKS
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS.
THE NATURE OF MR. BROWNING'S GENIUS.
If we were called upon to describe Mr. Browning's poetic genius in one phrase, we should say it consisted of an almost unlimited power of imagination exerted upon real things; but we should have to explain that