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Title:
Robert Browning's poetry : authoritative texts, criticism / selected and edited by James F. Loucks and Andrew M. Stauffer.
Author:
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.

Loucks, James F.

Stauffer, Andrew M., 1968-
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2007.
Call Number:
PR4202 .L59 2007
Abstract:
Presents a selection of the poet's work with annotations providing background information to make the poems easier to understand, and offers critical material from many of Browning's contemporaries.
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9780393926002
Series:
A Norton critical edition

Norton critical edition.
Physical Description:
x, 689 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
The texts of the poems -- A note on the texts -- The experimental phase (1833-45) -- Pauline; a fragment of a confession (1833; final version 1888) -- Paracelsus (1835) -- Sordello (1840) -- Pippa passes (1841) -- 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 -- 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 laboratory -- Meeting at night; parting at morning -- The major phase (1855-69) -- 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 containing the strange medical experience 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 -- Dramatis personae (1864) -- Dîs aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos Jours -- Abt Vogler -- Rabbi Ben Ezra -- Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural theology in the island -- Confessions -- Prospice -- Youth and art -- A likeness -- Apparent failure -- Epilogue -- The ring and the book (1868-69) -- Book V. Count Guido Franceschini -- Book VII. Pompilia -- Book X. The Pope -- The later achievement (after 1870) -- Fifine at the fair (1872) -- Prologue (amphibian) -- Epilogue (the householder).

Aristophanes' apology (1875) -- [Thamuris marching] -- Pacchiarotto and how he worked in distemper : with other poems (1876) -- House -- Fears and scruples -- Numpholeptos -- Jocoseria (1883) -- Adam, Lilith, and Eve -- Never the time and the place -- Parleyings with certain people of importance in their day (1887) -- With Christopher Smart -- Asolando : Fancies and facts (1889) -- Prologue -- Bad dreams, I-IV -- "Imperante Augusto Natus Est-" -- Development -- Epilogue -- Prose -- "Introductory essay" to the letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1852) -- Criticism -- Victorian views -- Evidences of a new genius for dramatic poetry / [Letter to Browning] / [Review of men and women] / [Browning's alleged carelessness] / [Browning and the Italian renaissance] / [Browning's grotesque art] / ring and the book] / The poetry of the period : Mr. Browning / [Browning's Obscurity] / [Strictures on Browning] / [Browning as "writer of fiction"] / Browning in Westminster Abbey / Modern essays in criticism -- The Dramatic monologue : sympathy versus judgment / Dramatic monologue and the overhearing of lyric / The politics of dramatic form / The pragmatics of silence, and the figuration of the reader in Browning's dramatic monologues / Browning's Pygmalion and the revenge of Galatea / Browning's Poetry of Intimacy / Interpretations of poems -- Browning's 'A toccata of Galuppi's' : how Venice once was dear / Browning's "Childe Roland": all things deformed and broken / Andrea del Sarto's modesty / Browning's "Caliban" and primitive language / "Pompilia" : the woman (in) question / Robert Browning : a chronology.
Uniform Title:
Poems. Selections
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