The Poems of Browning: Volume Four: 1862 - 1871

Daniel Karlin is Winterstoke Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol.

Joseph Phelan is a Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature at De Montfort University.

John Woolford is Professor Emeritus of nineteenth-century literature and culture at the University of Manchester and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield.

LONGMAN ANNOTATED ENGLISH POETS

BROWNING

VOL IV

CONTENTS

[NB ¾ this arrangement does not constitute the running-order of the poems, which will be by date of composition, actual or conjectural, as with vols. I-III.]

Dramatis Personae, except ‘A Face’, ‘May and Death’, and ‘The Worst of It’, already publ. in vol. III)

Hervé Riel (later included in Pacchiarotto, 1876)

Balaustion’s Adventure

Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau

Fugitives:

Very Original Poem . . .

On Being Defied to Express in a Hexameter . . .

Don’t play with sharp tools . . .

And now in turn see Swinburne bent . . .

’Twas Goethe taught us all . . .

Dear Hosmer; or still dearer Hatty . . .

Helen’s Tower

Mettle and Metal

‘The gift is small’

The Dogma Triumphant

‘In Dickens, sure . . .’

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