INDEX.

A.

"Abt Vogler," 130, 172, 202

"A Face," 130

"A Forgiveness," 130

"After," 130

"Agamemnon of Æschylus," 182

"A Grammarian's Funeral," 129, 168

"A Likeness," 130

Alma ----, Letter to, 191

"Amphibian," 130

Ancona, 150

"Andrea del Sarto," 130, 168

"Andromeda," 25

"Another way of Love," 130

"Any Wife to any Husband," 129, 168

"A Pearl," 130

"Apparent Failure," 130, 172

"Appearances," 130

Appearance, Browning's personal, 74, 161

Aprile, 107, 204, 207

"Aristophanes' Apology," 182

"Ask not one least word of praise," 130

"Asolando," 22, 39, 128, 131, 182, 196, 207, 210

Asolo, 58, 192

"A Soul's Tragedy," 89, 91, 179

"Athenæum, The," 73

"A Toccata of Galuppi's," 130, 168

"Aurora Leigh," 118, 152, 166, 169, 170

B.

Bagni di Lucca, 157, 165

Bailey's "Festus," 114

"Balaustion's Adventure," 182, 190

Balzac, 36, 114, 138, 185, 203, 206

Barrett, Arabella, 54, 174

Barrett, Edward, 136

Barrett, Mr., 144, 161, 170

"Beatrice Signorini," 131

Beautiful in Verse, the, 206-7

Beethoven, 209

"Before," 130

"Bells and Pomegranates," 76, 81, 138

"Ben Karshook's Wisdom," 167

Berdoe, E., 68, 204, 207

"Bifurcations," 130

"Bishop Blougram," 93, 179

Blake, William, 94

"Blot on the 'Scutcheon, A," 79, 88, 89, 90, 91, 206

Bossuet and Browning, 191

Browning, Clara, 21

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: Browning's early influence on, 92; born March 4, 1809, 136; her girlhood and early work, 136; death of brother, 136; residence in London, 137; "The Cry of the Children," 137; friendships with Horne and Kenyon, 137; her appreciation of Browning's poems, 138; correspondence with him, 138; engagement, 139; acquaintance with Mrs. Jameson, 143; marriage, 145; Mr. Barrett's resentment, 144; journey to Paris, 145; thence to Pisa, 146; Browning's love for his wife, 146; "Sonnets from the Portuguese," 147; in spring to Florence, 150; to Ancona, via Ravenna, in June, 150; winter at Casa Guidi, 152; "Aurora Leigh," 152; description of poetess, 153, 154; birth of son in 1849, 157; "Casa Guidi Windows," 159; 1850, spring in Rome; proposal to confer poet-laureateship on Mrs. Browning, 159, 161; 1851, visits England, 161; winter in Paris, 162; she is enthusiastic about Napoleon III. and interested in Spiritualism; summer in London, 162; autumn at Casa Guidi, 162; winter 1853-4 in Rome, 1856 "Aurora Leigh," death of Kenyon, legacies, 170; 1857, death of Mr. Barrett, 170; 1858, delicacy of Mrs. Browning, 171; July 1858, Brownings travel to Normandy; "Two Poems by Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning," 1854, 173; 1860, "Poems before Congress," and death of Arabella Barrett, 160; "North and South," 174; return to Casa Guidi, and death on 28th June 1861, 175, 206

Browning, Reuben, 18, 19, 20

Browning, Robert: born in London in 1812, 11, 13, 19; his literary and artistic antecedents and contemporaries, 12-14; his parentage and ancestry, 15, 17-19; concerning traces of Semitic origin, 15-19; his sisters, 20; his father, 18; his mother, 20, 23; his uncle, Reuben Browning, 20; the Camberwell home, 23; his childhood, 22; early poems, 25; translation of the odes of Horace, 26; goes to school at Peckham, 27; his holiday afternoons, 27; "Death of Harold," 29; criticisms of Miss Flower and Mr. Fox, 30; he reads Shelley's and Keats's poems, 30, 31; he has a tutor, 33; attends Gower Street University College, 34; he decides to be a poet, 35; writes "Pauline," 1832, 36; it is published in 1833, 39; "Pauline," 39-49; criticisms thereon, 49; Rossetti and "Pauline," studies at British Museum, 52, 53; travels in 1833 to Russia, 57; to Italy, 58; return to Camberwell, 1834, 58, and begins "Paracelsus," sonnet signed "Z," 1834, 60; love for Venice, 62; "Paracelsus," 59, 62; criticisms thereon, 71, 73; he meets Macready, 73; "Narses," 76; he meets Talfourd, Wordsworth, Landor, 77; "Strafford," 79; his dramas, 85; his love of the country, 95; "Pippa Passes," 96, 98; "Sordello," 105; origin of "The Ring and the Book," 1865; "The Ring and the Book," 113-119; "The Inn Album," 127; "Men and Women," 128; proposed "Transcripts from Life," 129; "Flower o' the Vine," 131; correspondence between him and Miss Barrett, 136; meeting in 1846, 138; engagement, 140; marriage, 12th September 1846, 145; sojourn in Pisa, 146; they go to Florence, 148; to Ancona, via Ravenna, 150; "The Guardian Angel," 150; Casa Guidi, 152; birth of son, March 9th, 1849, 157; they go to Vallombrosa and Bagni di Lucca for the autumn, and winter at Casa Guidi, 156; spring of 1850 in Rome, 159; "Two in the Campagna," 156; 1851, they visit England; description of Browning, 161; winter 1851-2 in Paris with Robert Browning, senior, 162; Browning writes Prefatory Essay to Moxon's edition of Shelley's Letters, 163; midsummer, Baths of Lucca, 165; in Florence, 166; "In a Balcony," 166; winter in Rome, 1853-4, 166; the work written there, 167; "Ben Karshook's Wisdom," 167; "Men and Women" published, 168; Kenyon's death, and legacies to the Brownings, 170; poems written between 1855-64, 169; July 1858, Brownings go to Normandy, 173; "Legend of Pornic," "Gold Hair," 173; autumn of 1859 in Sienna; winter 1860-61 in Rome, 173; death of Mrs. Browning, June 1861, 175; "Prospice," 176; 1866, Browning loses his father; Miss Sarianna resides with Browning, 177; his ways of life, 177; first collected edition of his works, 1868, 178; first part of "The Ring and the Book" published, 178; "Hervé Riel," 179; Tauchnitz edition, 1872, 179; "Bishop Blougram," 179; "Selections," 180; "La Saisiaz," 1877, 180; "The Two Poets of Croisic," 181; later works, 182; "Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau," "Red Cotton Nightcap Country," 182, 183; "Fifine at the Fair," 183, 184, 185-7; "Jocoseria," 187; 1881, Browning Society established, 188; his latter years, 189; revisits Asolo, 191; Palazzo Rezzonico, 192; religious belief, 193; death, December 12th, 1889, 195, 196; funeral, 197; to be estimated by a new definition, 200; as poet, rather than as thinker, 200; his love of life, 201; his, like Bossuet's, a Hebrew genius fecundated by Christianity, 201; his artistic relations to Death and Sex, 201-3; where, in standpoint, he differs from Tennyson, 203; as to quality of his mass of work, 204; intellectually exploited, 204; his difficulties, and their attraction to many, 205; his attitude to the future, influence, and significance, 205-211; summary of his life-work, 200-212.

Browning, Robert Wiedemann Barrett, 18, 37, 157, 163, 174

Browning, Robert (senior), 18, 20, 32, 33, 37, 38, 159, 173

Browning, Sarianna (Mrs.), 21, 25, 29, 32

Browning, Sarianna (Miss), 20, 177, 188

Browning Society, the, 160, 188

Browning, William Shergold, 18

Byron, 149

"By the Fireside," 130

C.

"Caliban upon Setebos," 172, 207, 209

Camberwell, 20, 27, 33, 38, 54, 58, 61

Carlyle, Thomas, 80, 105, 110, 115, 202, 204

Casa Guidi, 120, 152, 154, 163, 166, 174

"Cavalier-Tunes," 129

"Childe Roland," 203, 205

Chopin, 209

"Christmas Eve and Easter-Day," 159, 179

"Cleon," 130

Coleridge, 208

"Colombe's Birthday," 89-91

"Confessional, The," 129

"Confessions," 130

Contemporaries, literary and artistic, of Browning, 12-14

Conway, Moncure, 15, 193

Cristina, 129

"Cristina and Manaldeschi," 130

Cunningham, Allan, 50, 51

D.

Dante, 93, 106, 107, 150

Death, Browning on, 195, 202, 211

"Death of Harold," 29

"Death in the Desert, A," 129, 172

Defoe, 198

"De Gustibus," 57, 59, 130

Dickens, Charles, 54, 90

"Dîs Aliter Visum," 130, 172

Domett, A. (Waring), 151

Dramas, Browning's, 82-92

"Dramatic Idyls," 57, 182

"Dramatic Romances," 128, 179

"Dramatis Personæ," 127, 171, 179

Dulwich Wood, 62, 95, 98, 104-5

E.

"Earth's Immortalities," 129

"Echetlos," 130

Epics, series of monodramatic, 36

Equator of Browning's genius, the, 178

"Evelyn Hope," 129, 168

F.

Faucit, Miss Helen, 80

"Ferishtah's Fancies," 182

"Fifine at the Fair," 110, 130, 182, 184-7

Flaubert, Gustave, 206

"Flight of the Duchess," 27, 129

"Flower's Name, The," 129, 167

Flower o' the Vine, 131

Flower, Miss Sarah (afterwards Adams), 30, 52

Form, Artistic, 206-9

Forster, John, 50, 73, 76

Fox, Mrs. Bridell, 59

Fox, Rev. William Johnson, 30, 50, 51, 52, 54, 73

"Fra Lippo Lippi," 129, .166, 168

Furnivall, Dr., 16, 163

Future, Browning and the, 201-10

G.

Goethe, 114, 203, 207, 208

"Gold Hair," 172, 173

Gordon, General, 69

Gosse, E.W., 81

"Grammarian's Funeral, A," 129, 168

"Guardian Angel, The," 130, 150

H.

"Halburt and Hob," 130

Hawthorne, N., 154-5, 171

"Heap Cassia," etc., 71

Heine, 57, 165

"Heretic's Tragedy, The," 129

"Hervé Riel," 130, 179

Hillard, G.S., 154-6

"Holy Cross Day," 167

"Home Thoughts from Abroad," 57, 129, 157, 189

"Home Thoughts from the Sea," 57, 129, 189

Hood, Thomas, 167

Horne, R.H., 137, 138, 150, 152, 206, 209

Houghton, Lord, 167

"How they brought the Good News," etc., 29, 179, 189

Hugo, Victor, 112, 114

I.

"Imperante Augusto," 131

"In a Balcony," 88, 166, 167, 168, 179

"In a Gondola," 129

"Inapprehensiveness," 131

"In a Year," 130

"Inn Album, The," 70, 101, 113, 127, 182

"Instans Tyrannus," 26

"Italian in England, The," 58

Italian Art, Music, etc.--Influence of, on Browning, 58

Italy, first visit to, 56-7

"Ivàn Ivànovitch," 57, 130

"Ixion," 188

J.

Jameson, Mrs., 143

"James Lee's Wife," 59, 130, 172

Jerrold, Douglas, 109

"Jocoseria," 130, 182, 187

"Johannes Agricola," 59

Joubert, 193

K.

Karshish, Epistle to, 129, 166

Keats, 32, 71, 94, 134, 198, 206

Kenyon, John, 137, 163, 170

"King Victor and King Charles," 89, 91

L.

"Lady and the Painter, The," 131

Lamartine on Bossuet, 191

Landor, W.S., 77-9, 92

"La Saisiaz," 130, 180

"Last Ride Together, The," 130

Le Croisie, 178

Lehmann's, Rudolf, portrait of Browning, 16, 17

Leit-Motif, Browning's, 210

Letter to a Girl Friend, 191

"Life in a Love," 130

"Light Woman, A," 130

"Lost Leader, The," 78, 129

"Love among the Ruins," 129, 166, 168

"Love in a Life," 130

"Lover's Quarrel, A," 129

Lowell, J.R., 142

"Luria," 88, 89-92, 179

M.

Macpherson, Mrs., 143-6

Macready, 74-81

"Magical Nature," 130

Manner, Browning's, 211

Marlowe, 114

"Mary Wollstonecraft and Fuseli," 130

"Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha," 130, 168

"May and Death," 130

Mazzini, 58

"Meeting at Night," 129, 158

"Memorabilia," 130, 166

"Men and Women," 127-136, 166, 168, 169, 171, 178, 179, 182

Meredith, George, 123, 124, 186, 198

Meynell, Wilfrid, 191

Montaigne, 207

Mortimer, 201-2

Motive, Browning's fundamental poetic, 210

Mill, John Stuart, 51

Milsand, J., 111

Milton, 49, 92, 133, 198

"Misconceptions," 130

Mitford, Mary, 78

"Muléykeh," 130

Murray, Alma, 188

Music of Browning's verse, 205-10

"My Last Duchess," 129

"My Star," 130

N.

"Narses," 76

"Natural Magic," 120

Nature, Browning's observation of, 96

Nettleship, J., 75, 107

"Never the Time and the Place," 130, 188

Newman, Cardinal, 194

New Spirit of the Age, 138

Normandy, the Brownings in, 173

"Now," 131

"Numpholeptos," 130

O.

Obscurity, Browning's, 106, 180

"Old Pictures in Florence," 130

"O Lyric Love," 121, 130, 177

"One Way of Love," 130

"One Word More," 169, 177

Optimism, Browning's, 24 (and vide Summary)

Orion, new star in, 198

Orr, Mrs. Sutherland, 18, 98, 111, 184

Orthodoxy, Browning's, 193

"Over the seas our galleys went," 29

P.

"Pacchiarotto," 128-30, 165, 182, 207, 210

Palazzo Rezzonico, 192

"Pan and Luna," 130

"Paracelsus," 50, 58, 60-72, 85, 106, 107

Paris, the Brownings in, 162

"Parleyings," 182

"Parting at Morning," 158

Pater, Walter, 88

"Pauline," 25, 32, 36, 38-48, 51-54, 85, 128, 208, 210

"Pheidippides," 130

"Pictor Ignotus," 129

"Pied Piper of Hamelin," 75, 129, 179

"Pippa Passes," 24, 32, 45, 58, 59, 70, 92, 95-104, 113

Pisa, 146

"Pisgah Sights," 130

Plato, 95

Poe, E.A., 207

Poems, Early, 25, 26, 27, 28, 71

"Poetical Works," 178

"Poetics," 131

Pompilia, 58, 122-125

"Pope, The," 126

"Popularity," 72

"Porphyria," 59, 66

Portraits of Browning, 16, 17, 53

"Pretty Woman, A," 130

Primary importance, Browning's, 134

"Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau," 165, 182, 183

Profundity, Browning's, 94

"Prospice," 130, 172, 176

R.

Rabbi Ben Ezra, 129, 172

Rawdon Brown, Sonnet to, 107

"Red Cotton Nightcap Country," 110, 182-3

Religious Opinions, 193, etc.

"Rephan," 131

"Return of the Druses, The," 37, 89-91, 206

"Reverie," 131, 207, 210

Richmond, 38

"Ring and the Book, The," 39, 101, 113-128, 177, 182, 203, 205, 210

Romance, Browning and, 105

Rome, the Brownings in, 159, 166

Roscoe, W.C., 70

"Rosny," 131

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 52-3, 55, 104

"Round of Day, The," 131

Ruskin, J., 23, 129

Russia, Visit to, 58

S.

Sainte-Beuve, 194, 200

"Saul," 129, 167, 168

Schiller, 207

School, Peckham, 27, 33

Schopenhauer, 209, 210

Shortcomings, Browning's artistic, 205

Science, Browning and, 68

Scott, David, 14

Scott, Sir W., 198

"Serenade at the Villa," 130

Sex, Browning's artistic relation to, 202

Shakspere, 36, 85-8, 93, 114, 206, 208, 209, 210

Shelley, 30, 43, 136, 146, 149, 164-5, 172, 196, 203, 205, 209

Shelley Letters, the, 163

"Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis," 143, 167

Skelton, John, 90

"Sludge the Medium," 94, 165

Songs "Nay but you," 129; "Round us the wild creatures," 130; "Once I saw," 130; "Man I am," 130; "You groped your way," 130; "Wish me no wish unspoken," 130

Sonnets, Browning's, 58

"Sonnets from the Portuguese," 147, 148

"Sordello," 37, 58, 63, 79, 85, 89, 91, 92, 105-12, 203, 205, 210

Soul, Browning and the, 210-11

"Soul's Tragedy, A," 89, 91, 179

"Speculative," 131

Spiritual influence, Browning's, 200

"St. Martin's Summer," 130

Story, W.W., 154, 171, 192

"Strafford," 62, 75, 79-86, 89, 211

Summary of Criticism, 198-212

Swinburne, A.C., 106

T.

Talfourd, 54, 78

Tauchnitz edition, 179

Taylor, Bayard, 161

Tennyson, Lord, 54, 55, 134, 161, 180, 192

"The Statue and the Bust," 173

"The Tomb at St. Praxed's," 129, 143

"There's a woman like a Dew-drop," 192

Thinker, Browning as, 200

"Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr," 129

"Tokay," 167

"Too Late," 130

"Touch him ne'er so lightly," 130

Tour-de-force, Poetry and, 115

Transcripts from Life, 129-131

Traill, H.D., 209

"Two in the Campagna," 130, 159, 160

"Two Poets of Croisic," 130, 181

U.

University College, 33

V.

Venice, 59, 192, 197

"Verse-making," 130

W.

Wagner, 209

Wedmore, F., 204

Westminster Abbey, 196

"What of the Leafage," etc., 188

"Why from the World," 130

Wiedemann, Mr., 18

"Woman's Last Word, A," 129

Women, Browning's, 66

"Women and Roses," 130

Wonder Spirit, Browning and the, 95

Wordsworth, 78, 94, 145, 161

Work, Browning's mass of, 201

Y.

Yates, E., Letter from Browning to, 189

York, the horse, 20, 190

"Youth and Art," 130, 172

Z.

"Z" signed Sonnet, 58