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THE
COMPLETE
WORKS
OF ROBERT
BROWNING,
VOLUME
VI
Robert Browning in 1865; an engraving based on a photograph frey. Courtesy of the Armstrong Browning Library.
by]+
Jnnotf7tianr
Volume VI
EDITED JOHN
C.
BERKEY
ALLAN
C.
DOOLEY
SUSAN
E.
DOOLEY
BAYLOR
UNIVERSITY
WACO, OHIO
BY
TEXAS
UNIVERSITY ATHENS,
PRESS OHXO
1996
THE
COMPLETE
ALLAN
C. DOOLEY,
JACK
W.
PARK ROMA
WORKS
HERRIN HONAN,
A.
KING,
DANIEL
OF ROBERT
BROWNING
Executive Edi tar G, General Editor Founding Editor JR., Founding Editor
BERARDINELLI
JOHN
C.
BERKEY
MlCHAEL ASHBY
BRlGHT
BLAND
CROWDER
SUSAN SUSAN
CROWL E.
DAVID
RITA
DOOLEY EWBANK
S. HUMPHREY
CRAIG
PAUL
TURNER
TURNER
Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701 Q 1996 by Ohio University Press and Baylor University Printed in the United States of America Ali rights reserved 99 98 97 96 Ohio
University Library
Press books
54321 are printed
paper
OQ
of Congress Cataloging-Publication (Revised for vol. 6)
Browning, Robert, The complete works of Robert readings 8c annotations. Vol. 6 edited
on acid-free
1812-1889. Browning, with Editorial board.
variant
by John C. Berkey, Allan C. DooIey and Susan E. Dooley. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. I. King, Roma A. (Roma Alvah), 1914ed. II. Herring, Jack W., 1925. III. Crowder, A. B. IV. Title. PR4201.K5 1969 821’.8 68- 18389 ISBN O-8214-1 137-3 (v. 6)
CONTENTS Page Number iX
PREFACE TABLES
xxii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
xxvi
MEN
AND
WOMEN, VOLUME II Andrea de1 Sarto (Called “The Before After In Three Days In a Year Old Pictures in Florence In a Balcony Saul “De Gustibus--” Women and Roses Protus Holy-Cross Day The Guardian-Angel
Faultless
Painter”)
7 16 18 19 21 24 37 72 90 92 94 96 102
Cle0l-l The Twins Popularity The Heretic’s Tragedy Two in the Campagna A Grammarian’s Funeral One Way of Love Another Way of Love “Transcendentalism: a Poem in Twelve Misconceptions One Word More BEN LAST
KARSHOOK’S
THE GREEK CHRISTIAN BY ELIZABETH BARRET Advertisement
EURYDICE DRAMATIS
WORKS Title Page Dedication Contents Notes TO
Books”
151
WISDOM
POEMS BY ELIZABETH Dedication Advertisement
POETICAL
105 117 119 122 127 130 135 136 138 140 141
BARRE-I-I.
BROWNING
(1862) 155 156
POETS AND BROWNING
THE ENGLISH (1863)
POETS 157
[ 1863 and 18%)
ORPHEUS;
159 160 161 165 A PICTURE
167
BY LEIGHTON
PERSONX James Lee’s Wile Gold Hair: a Story of Pornic The Worst of It Dis Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos Jours Too Late Abt Vogler Rabbi Ben Ezra A Death in the Desert Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology Confessions May and Death Prospice Youth and Art A Face A Likeness Mr. Sludge, “The Medium” Apparent Failure Epilogue
in the Island
171 175 193 201 206 214 220 226 235 259 271 273 275 276 280 282 285 352 355
A SELECTION FROM Preface A SELECTION FROM BARRETT BROWNING Preface POETICAL
DEAF
AND
EDITORIAL
CUMULATIVE
WORKS Title page Notes Contents
WORKS
OF ROBERT
BROWNING
(1865) 361