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Death of Harold ; his poems, written when twelve years old, shown to Miss Flower; the Rev. W.J. Fox's criticisms on them; he comes across Shelley's
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Dæmon of the World ; Mrs. Browning procures Shelley's poems, also those of Keats, for her son; the perusal of these volumes proves an important event in his poetic development; he leaves school when fourteen years old, and studies at home under a tutor; attends a few lectures at University College, 1829-30; chooses his career, at the age of twenty; earliest record of his utterances concerning his youthful life printed in _Century Magazine_, 1881; he plans a series of monodramatic epics; Browning's life-work, collectively one monodramatic
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; Shakspere's and Browning's methods compared; Browning writes
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Pauline in 1832; his own criticism on it; his parents' opinions; his aunt's generous gift; the poem published in January 1833; description of the poem; written under the inspiring stimulus of Shelley; its autopsychical significance; its importance to the student of the poet's works; quotations from
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Pauline
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Pauline ; criticisms thereupon; Mr. Fox's notice in the _Monthly Repository_, and its results; Dante Gabriel Rossetti reads
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Pauline and writes to the author; Browning's reference to Tennyson's reading of
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Maud in 1855; Browning frequents literary society; reads at the British Museum; makes the acquaintance of Charles Dickens and
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Ion Talfourd; a volume of poems by Tennyson published simultaneously with
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Pauline ; in 1833 he commences his travels; goes to Russia; the sole record of his experiences there to be found in the poem
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Ivàn Ivànovitch, published in _Dramatic Idyls_, 1879; his acquaintance with Mazzini; Browning goes to Italy; visits Asolo, whence he drew hints for
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Sordello and
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Pippa Passes ; in 1834 he returns to Camberwell; in autumn of 1834 and winter of 1835 commences
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Sordello, writes
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Paracelsus, and one or two short poems; his love for Venice; a new voice audible in
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Johannes Agricola and
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Porphyria ;
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Paracelsus, published in 1835; his own explanation of it; his love of walking in the dark; some of
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Paracelsus and of
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Strafford composed in a wood near Dulwich; concerning
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Paracelsus