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Paracelsus, important one written by John Forster; Browning meets Macready at the house of Mr. Fox; personal description of the poet; Macready's opinion of the poem; Browning spends New Year's Day, 1836, at the house of the tragedian and meets John Forster; Macready urges him to write a play; his subsequent interview with the tragedian; he plans a drama to be entitled
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Narses ; meets Wordsworth and Walter Savage Landor at a supper party, when the young poet is toasted, and Macready again proposes that Browning should write a play, from which arose the idea of
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Strafford ; his acquaintance with Wordsworth and Landor; MS. of
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Strafford accepted; its performance at Covent Garden Theatre on the 26th May 1837; runs for five nights; the author's comments; the drama issued by Messrs. Longman & Co.; the performance in 1886; estimate of
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Strafford ; Browning's dramas; comparison between the Elizabethan and Victorian dramatic eras; Browning's soul-depictive faculty; his dramatic method; estimate of his dramas; Landor's acknowledgment of the dedication to him of
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Luria
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Profundity and
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Simplicity ; the faculty of wonder; Browning's first conception of
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Pippa Passes ; his residence in London; his country walks; his ways and habits, and his heart-episodes; debates whether to become a clergyman; is
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Pippa Passes a drama? estimate of the poem; Browning's rambles on Wimbledon Common and in Dulwich Wood, where he composed his lines upon Shelley; asserts there is romance in Camberwell as well as in Italy;
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Sordello ; the charge of obscurity against
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Sordello ; the nature and intention of the poem; quotations therefrom; anecdote about Douglas Jerrold; Tennyson's, Carlyle's, and M. Odysse Barot's opinions on
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Sordello ;
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poetry; in 1863 Browning contemplated the re-writing of
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Sordello
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The Ring and the Book his finest work; its uniqueness; Carlyle's criticism of it; Poetry _versus_ Tour-de-Force;
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The Ring and the Book begun in 1866; analysis of the poem; kinship of
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The Ring and the Book and
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Aurora Leigh ; explanation of title; the idea taken from a parchment volume Browning picked up in Florence; the poem planned at Casa Guidi;
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O Lyric Love, etc.; description and analysis of
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The Ring and the Book, with quotations; compared as a poem with
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The Inn Album,
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Pauline,
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Asolando,
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Men and Women, etc.; imaginary volumes, to be entitled
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Transcripts from Life and
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Flowers o' the Vine
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The Cry of the Children and its origin; Miss Barrett's friends; effect on her of Browning's poetry; she makes Browning's acquaintance in 1846; her early belief in him as a poet; her physical delicacy and her sensitiveness of feeling; personal appearance of Robert Browning; his
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hand; Elizabeth Barrett discerns his personal worth, and is susceptible to the strong humanity of Browning's song; Mr. Barrett's jealousy; their engagement; Miss Barrett's acquaintance with Mrs. Jameson; quiet marriage in 1846; Mr. Barrett's resentment; the Brownings go to Paris; thence to Italy with Mrs. Jameson; Wordsworth's comments; residence in Pisa;
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Sonnets from the Portuguese ; in the spring they go to Florence, thence to Ancona, where
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The Guardian Angel
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Christmas Eve and Easter Day ;
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Casa Guidi Windows commenced; 1850, they go to Rome;
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Two in the Campagna ; proposal to confer poet-laureateship on Mrs. Browning; return to London; winter in Paris; summer in London; Kenyon's friendship; return in autumn to Casa Guidi; Browning's Essay on Shelley for the twenty-five spurious Shelley letters; midsummer at Baths of Lucca, where
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In a Balcony was in part written; winter of 1853-4 in Rome; record of work;
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Pen's illness;
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Ben Karshook's Wisdom ; return to Florence; (1856)
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Men and Women published; the Brownings go to London; in summer
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Aurora Leigh issued; 1858, Mrs. Browning's waning health; 1855-64 comparatively, unproductive period with R. Browning; record of work; July 1855, they travel to Normandy;
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Legend of Pornic ; Mrs. Browning's ardent interest in the Italian struggle of 1859; winter in Rome;
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Poems before Congress ; her last poem,
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North and South
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The Ring and the Book published in November 1866;
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Hervé Riel written; Browning's growing popularity; Tauchnitz editions of his poems in 1872; also first book of selections; dedication to Lord Tennyson; 1877, he goes to La Saisiaz, near Geneva;
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La Saisiaz and
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The Two Poets of Croisic