CONTENTS LIFE AND LETTERS OF ROBERT BROWNING Chapter 1 Origin of the Browning Family Chapter 2 Robert Browning's Father Chapter 3 1812-1826 Chapter 4 1826-1833 Chapter 5 1833-1835 Chapter 6 1835-1838 Chapter 7 1838-1841 Chapter 8 1841-1844 Chapter 9 1844-1849 Chapter 10 1849-1852 Chapter 11 1852-1855 Chapter 12 1855-1858 Chapter 13 1858-1861 Chapter 14 1861-1863 Chapter 15 1863-1869 Chapter 16 1869-1873 Chapter 17 1873-1878 Chapter 18 1878-1884 Chapter 19 1881-1887 Chapter 20 Constancy to Habit Chapter 21 Marriage Chapter 22 Illness and Death Conclusion Index A BLOT IN THE 'SCUTCHEON By Robert Browning CONTENTS Transcriber's comments INTRODUCTORY NOTE A BLOT IN THE 'SCUTCHEON ACT I ACT II ACT III DRAMATIC ROMANCES By Robert Browning Introduction and Notes: Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke CONTENTS INTRODUCTION INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP THE PATRIOT MY LAST DUCHESS COUNT GISMOND THE BOY AND THE ANGEL INSTANS TYRANNUS MESMERISM THE GLOVE TIME'S REVENGES THE ENGLISHMAN IN ITALY IN A GONDOLA WARING THE TWINS A LIGHT WOMAN THE LAST RIDE TOGETHER THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN: THE FLIGHT OF THE DUCHESS A GRAMMARIAN'S FUNERAL, THE HERETIC'S TRAGEDY HOLY-CROSS DAY PROTUS THE STATUE AND THE BUST PORPHYRIA'S LOVER "CHILDE ROLAND TO THE DARK TOWER CAME." BROWNING'S SHORTER POEMS Selected And Edited By Franklin T. Baker CONTENTS Page LIFE OF BROWNING vii BROWNING AS POET x APPRECIATIONS xx CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF BROWNING'S WORKS xxiv BIBLIOGRAPHY xxvii The Pied Piper of Hamelin 1 Tray 15 Incident of the French Camp 17 "How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" 19 Hervé Riel 22 Pheidippides 30 My Star 40 Evelyn Hope 41 Love among the Ruins 43 Misconceptions 47 Natural Magic 48 Apparitions 49 A Wall 50 Confessions 51 A Woman's Last Word 53 A Pretty Woman 55 Youth and Art 58 A Tale 61 Cavalier Tunes 67 Home-Thoughts, from the Sea 70 Summum Bonum 71 A Face 72 Songs from Pippa Passes 73 The Lost Leader 75 Apparent Failure 77 Fears and Scruples 80 Instans Tyrannus 82 The Patriot 85 The Boy and the Angel 87 Memorabilia 91 Why I am a Liberal 92 Prospice 93 Epilogue to "Asolando" 94 "De Gustibus—" 96 The Italian in England 98 My Last Duchess 105 The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church 107 The Laboratory 113 Home Thoughts, from Abroad 115 Up at a Villa—Down in the City 116 A Toccata of Galuppi's 122 Abt Vogler 126 Rabbi Ben Ezra 133 A Grammarian's Funeral 143 Andrea del Sarto 149 Caliban upon Setebos 161 "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came" 174 An Epistle 183 Saul 196 One Word More 224 NOTES 235 ILUSTRATION: Robert Browning 271 MEN AND WOMEN By Robert Browning