The Second Edition of this substantial collection of Browning’s poetry again reprints the texts of the seventeen-volume “Fourth and complete edition” (Smith, Elder), of which all but the final volume were approved by Browning before his death. The poems are ordered chronologically according to their first appearance in book form. Thirteen new poems are included in this edition, with Pauline now printed in its entirety. Annotations have been revised throughout to clarify Browning’s references and vocabulary.

Preface

The Texts of the Poems

　A Note on the Texts

　The Experimental Phase (1833-45)

　　Pauline; A Fragment of a Confession (1833-1888)

　　From Paracelsus (1835)

　　From Sordello (1840)

　　Pippa Passes (1841)

　　From Dramatic Lyrics (1842)

　　　My Last Duchess

　　　Count Gismond

　　　Incident of the French Camp

　　　Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

　　　In a Gondola

　　　Cristina

　　　Johannes Agricola in Meditation

　　　Porphyria’s Lover

　　　The Pied Piper of Hamelin

　　From Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)

　　　“ How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix”

　　　Pictor Ignotus

　　　The Italian in England

　　　The Englishman in Italy

　　　The Lost Leader

　　　Home-Thoughts, from Abroad

　　　[“Here’s to Nelson’s Memory!”]

　　　Home-Thoughts, from the Sea

　　　The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed’s Church

　　　Garden Fancies

　　　The Flower’s Name

　　　Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis

　　　The Laboratory

　　　Meeting at Night; Parting at Morning

　The Major Phase (1855-69)

　　From Men and Women (1855)

　　　Love Among the Ruins

　　　A Lovers’ Quarrel

　　　Up at a Villa—Down in the City

　　　A Woman’s Last Word

　　　Fra Lippo Lippi

　　　A Toccata of Galuppi’s

　　　By the Fire-Side

　　　Mesmerism

　　　An Epistle . . . of Karshish, the Arab Physician

　　　My Star

　　　“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”

　　　Respectability

　　　A Light Woman

　　　The Statue and the Bust

　　　How it Strikes a Contemporary

　　　The Last Ride Together

　　　The Patriot— An Old Story

　　　Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha

　　　Bishop Blougram’s Apology

　　　Memorabilia

　　　Andrea del Sarto

　　　In a Year

　　　“De Gustibus— ”

　　　Women and Roses

　　　Holy-Cross Day

　　　The Guardian-Angel

　　　Cleon

　　　Popularity

　　　Two in the Campagna

　　　A Grammarian’s Funeral

　　　“Transcendentalism: A Poem in Twelve Books”

　　　One Word More

　　From Dramatis Personae (1864)

　　　D?s aliter Visum

　　　Abt Vogler

　　　Rabbi Ben Ezra

　　　Caliban upon Setebos

　　　Confessions

　　　Youth and Art

　　　A Likeness

　　　Prospice

　　　Apparent Failure

　　　Epilogue

　　From The Ring and the Book (1868-69)

　　　Book V. Count Guido Franceschini

　　　Book VII. Pompilia

　　　Book X. The Pope

　The Later Achievement (after 1870)

　　From Fifine at the Fair (1872)

　　　Prologue (Amphibian)

　　　Epilogue (The Householder)

Criticism

Robert Browning: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography

Index of Titles