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v. 2 ISBN 9780582063990
Description
The Poems of Browning is the first collected edition to be based on the earliest printed texts, and to present these texts in order of their composition.Together, volumes I and II provide an authoritative and accessible tribute to this great poet.
Volume II, 1841-1846 includes Pippa Passes and many of the poems for which Browning is best known and loved: My Last Duchess, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Home-Thoughts from Abroad, and The Lost Reader.
Table of Contents
- 1841-1846
- (incident of the French camp)
- Pippa Passes
- Artemis Prologuizes
- The Cardinal and the Dog
- In a Gondola
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin
- Waring
- Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr-1842
- (My Last Duchess)
- (Count Gismond)
- (Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister)
- (Lines to Helen Faucit)
- The Lost Leader
- A Soul's Tragedy
- The Laboratory
- Claret and Tokay (Nationality in Drinks I and II)
- Garden Fancies I - The Flower's Name, II - Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis
- The Boy and the Angel
- How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix
- (Nobly Cape Saint Vincent)
- (Home Thoughts From the Sea)
- (Here's to Nelson's Memory!) (Nationality in Drinks III)
- Earth's Immortalities
- Pictor Ignotus
- The Tomb at St Praxed's (The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Sain Praxed's Church)
- Italy and England (The Italian in England)
- Time's Revenges
- (Oh to be in England) (Home-Thoughts, from Abroad)
- Saul
- The Lost Mistress
- The Flight of the Duchess
- Song
- (The Confessional)
- England in Italy (The Englishman in Italy)
- Night and Morning (Meeting at Night and Parting at Morning) I - Night, II - Morning
- The Gove
- (translation of quatrain attributed to Petro of Abano)
- (translation of lines by Dante)
- (translation of lines by Lorenzo de' Medici)
- Uria
- (Translation of epigram by Goethe)
- (quatrain on Correggio). Appendices: contents of Dramatic Lyrics (1842), Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845), Men and Women (1855) and Browning's re-arrangements in subsequent editions
- note on Bells and Pomegranates
- essay on Chatterton.
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v. 3 ISBN 9780582084537
Description
The Poems of Browning
is a multi-volume edition of the poetry of Robert Browning (1812 -1889) resulting from a completely fresh appraisal of the canon, text and context of his work. The poems are presented in the order of their composition and in the text in which they were first published, giving a unique insight into the origins and development of Browning's art. Annotations and headnotes, in keeping with the traditions of Longman Annotated English Poets, are full and informative and provide details of composition, publication, sources and contemporary reception.Volumes one (1826-1840) and two (1841-1846) presented the poems from his early years up to his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett, including the dramatic poem Paracelsus (1835), which first brought him to wide attention, and Sordello (1840), which confirmed him as a poet of ambition and imagination.
Volume three (1847-1861) of The Poems of Browning covers the years of Browning's life in Italy with his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning. During the fifteen years of his marriage and self-imposed exile, Browning produced Christmas-Eve and Easter Day (1850), a major statement of his religious philosophy, and Men and Women (1855), his greatest collection of shorter poems. The poems of Men and Women, like all Browning's work, are steeped in his wide and idiosyncratic knowledge of literature, music, art, history, and popular culture, but a new and distinctive touch comes from the sights, sounds and textures of ordinary life in Italy. Based on a comprehensive study of textual and contextual sources, including a significant amount of hitherto undiscovered or unpublished manuscripts of poems and letters, this volume offers the most complete and informative edition of works that are central to Browning's achievement. In addition, Browning's most important work of critical prose, the Essay on Shelley, is presented in an appendix with full annotation, and poems which refer to specific works of painting or sculpture are illustrated with colour plates.
Volumes four presents the poetry Browning produced during the decade following the death of his wife, including Dramatis Personae, which heralded a re-evaluation of his critical reputation, and The Ring and the Book, which many consider to be his greatest work. The Poems of Browning represents the most informative and up-to-date edition of the works of one of England's greatest poets.
Table of Contents
VOL III
CONTENTS
[NB 3/4 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 and II. Vol III will start with 'The Guardian Angel', the first poem known to have been written by Browning after his marriage, and will end with Browning's adaptation of an epigram by Walter Savage Landor, 'An angel from his Paradise drove Adam', the last poem which can be certainly dated before EBB's death.]
Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day
Men and Women (except 'Before' and 'After', already publ. in vol II)
poems from Dramatis Personae:
A Face
May and Death
The Worst of It
Fugitives:
The 'Moses' of Michael Angelo'
'Dear Miss Unger'
'How much upon a level'
'The Grand Duke wash'd and kiss'd the poor men's feet'
Ben Karshook's Wisdom
Study of a Hand, by Lionardo
'Oh, my Isa! Ah, my Annette!'
'An angel from his Paradise drove Adam'
Appendix: Essay on Shelley
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v. 1 ISBN 9780582481008
Description
The Poems of Browning is the first collected edition to be based on the earliest printed texts, and to present these texts in order of their composition.Together, volumes I and II provide an authoritative and accessible tribute to this great poet.
Volume I, 1826-1840 traces Browning's career up to the writing of Sordello. It includes his only surviving juvenilia: The Dance of Death and The First-Borm of Egypt; Pauline, his first anonymous publication, and Paracelsus, the poem which made his literary reputation.
Table of Contents
- "The Dance of Death"
- "The First-born of Egypt"
- "Pauline" a fragment of a confession
- impromptu on hearing a sermon by the Rev. T.R-- pronounced "heavy"
- Cockney anthology - a specimen
- on Andrea del Sarto's "Jupiter and Leda"
- on the deleterious effects of tea (classicality applied to tea-dealing)
- Sonnet ("Eyes Calm Beside Thee")
- "Pareacelsus"
- the King
- Porphyria (Porphyria's lover)
- Johannes Agricola (Johannes Agricola in meditation)
- lines ("still ailing, wind")
- (epitaph for James Dow and his family)
- a forest thought
- cavalier tunes - marching along
- give a rouse
- my wife Gertrude (boot and saddle)
- Sordello
- Rudel and the Lady of Tripoli
- Cristina. Appendix: MS transcriptions of "The Dance of Death" and "The First-Born of Egypt".
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v. 4 ISBN 9781405845960
Description
The Poems of Robert Browning is a multi-volume edition of the poetry of Robert Browning (1812 -1889) resulting from a completely fresh appraisal of the canon, text and context of his work. The poems are presented in the order of their composition and in the text in which they were first published, giving a unique insight into the origins and development of Browning's art. Annotations and headnotes, in keeping with the traditions of Longman Annotated English Poets, are full and informative and provide details of composition, publication, sources and contemporary reception.
Volumes one (1826-1840) and two (1841-1846) presented the poems from his Browning's early years, while volume three (1847-61) covered the period of his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett and residence in Italy. Volume four (1862-71) deals with the decade following Elizabeth's death and Browning's return to England. These years saw the appearance of some of his most significant work, and a steady rise in his critical reputation. In Dramatis Personae (1864), Browning uses his characteristic "dramatic" mode to expose predicaments of thought and feeling, in characters ranging from Shakespeare's Caliban to the cheating medium, "Mr Sludge"; other poems dramatize Browning's complicated feelings about the deceptions and self-deceptions of romantic love. Balaustion's Adventure (1871) is an engaging reworking of Euripides' Alcestis, whose theme, the resurrection of a beloved lost wife, has poignant personal resonance for Browning;while Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, published in the same year, offers a thinly-veiled account of the life and actions of Napoleon III, the recently deposed Emperor of France, over whom Browning and Elizabeth had quarrelled. In these two long poems, Browning can be seen engaged in the dialogue with Elizabeth that was to shape much of his work during the remainder of his writing life.
Table of Contents
- LONGMAN ANNOTATED ENGLISH POETS
BROWNING
VOL IV
CONTENTS
[NB 3/4 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)
Herve 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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