Robert Browning's poetry: authoritative texts, criticism

The texts of the poems

A note on the texts

The experimental phase (1833-45): From Pauline (1833)

From Paracelsus (1835)

From Sordello (1840)

Pippa Passes (1841)

From dramatic lyrics (1842): My last duchess

Count Gismond

Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister

In a Gondola

Cristina

Johannes Agricola in meditation

Prophyria's lover

The pied pider of Hamelin

From Dramatic romances and lyrics (1845): How they bought the good news from Ghent to Aix

Pictor Ignotus

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

The laboratory

Meeting at night; parting at morning

Nationality in drinks

The major phase (1855-69): From Men and women (1855): Love among the ruins

A lover's quarrel

Evelyn Hope

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

Any wife to any husband

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

Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha

Bishop Blougram's apology

Memorabilia

Andrea del Sarto

Saul [final version]

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): James Lee's wife

Dis aliter visum

Abt Vogler

Rabbi Ben Ezra

Caliban upon Setebos

Confessions

Prospice

Apparent failure

Epilogue

From The ring and the book (1868-69): Book V. Count Guido Franceschini

Book VI. Guiseppi Caponsacchi

Book X. The pope

The later achievement (after 1870): From Fifine at the fair (1872)

Prologue (Amphibian)

Epilogue (The householder)

From Aristophanes' apology (1875): Thamuris marching

From Pacchiarotto and How he worked in distemper: with other poems (1876): House

Fears and scruples

Numpholeptos

From Jocoseria (1883): Adam, Lilith, and Eve

Never the time and the place

From Parleyings with certain people of importance in their day (1887): With Christopher Smart

From Asolando: Fancies and facts (1889): Prologue

Bad dreams, I_IV

Imperanted Augusto Natus Est__

Development

Epilogue

Prose: From Introductory essay to the Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley 1852)

Criticism: Victorian views: Evidences of a new genius for dramatic poetry: John Foster

Letter to Browning / Thomas Carlyle

Review of Men and women / George Eliot

Browning's alleged carelessness / William Morris

Browning and the Italian Renaissance / John Ruskin

Browning's grotesque art / Walter Bagehot

The ring and the book / Robert W. Buchanan

The poetry of the period: Mr. Browning / Alfred Austin

Browning's obscurity / Algernon Charles Swinburne

Strictures on Browing / Gerard Manley Hopkins

Browning as writer of fiction / Oscar Wilde

Browning in Westminster Abbey / Henry James

Modern essays in criticism: Revaluations: The poetry of barbarism / George Santayana

Reply to Santayana / G. K. Chesterton

The infinite moment / William O. Raymond

Browning's language / J. Hillis Miller

The dramatic monologue: sympathy versus judgment / Robert Langbaum

Intepretations of poems: Browning's duke as theatrical producer [My last duchess] / W. David Shaw

Browning's Childe Roland: all things deformed and broken / Harold Bloom

Blougram's apologetics / F. E. L. Priestley

Eve and the virgin: Andrea del Sarto / Roma A. King, Jr.

Robert Browning's pluralistic universe: a reading of The ring and the book / E. D. H. Johnson.