Front matter
Reading edition
BROWNING’S ITALY BROWNING’S ENGLAND A GUIDE TO MYTHOLOGY ANCIENT MYTHS IN MODERN POETS LONGFELLOW’S COUNTRY HAWTHORNE’S COUNTRY THE POETS’ NEW ENGLAND
Browning at 23 (London 1835)
Browning and His Century
BY HELEN ARCHIBALD CLARKE Author of “Browning’s Italy,” “Browning’s England,” etc.
ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
Garden City New York DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1912
Copyright, 1912, by Doubleday, Page & Co. All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian
To THE BOSTON BROWNING SOCIETY IN COMMEMORATION OF THE BROWNING CENTENARY—1812-1912
CONTENTS
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CHAPTER I
The Battle of Mind and Spirit 3
CHAPTER II
The Century’s End: Promise of Peace 77
CHAPTER III
Political Tendencies 118
CHAPTER IV
Social Ideals 174
CHAPTER V
Art Shibboleths 217
CHAPTER VI
Classic Survivals 277
CHAPTER VII
Prophetic Visions 342
ILLUSTRATIONS
Browning at 23 (London 1835) Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
Paracelsus 38
Herbert Spencer 94
David Strauss 112
Cardinal Wiseman 120
William Ewart Gladstone 160
William Morris 196
John Burns 208
Alfred Tennyson 250
A. C. Swinburne 260
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 266
George Meredith 272
Euripides 296
Aristophanes 306
Walter Savage Landor 330
Browning at 77 (1889) 360
BROWNING AND HIS CENTURY