CONTENTS INTRODUCTION "TRANSCENDENTALISM: A POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS" HOW IT STRIKES A CONTEMPORARY ARTEMIS PROLOGIZES AN EPISTLE CONTAINING THE STRANGE MEDICAL EXPERIENCE OF KARSHISH, THE ARAB PHYSICIAN JOHANNES AGRICOLA IN MEDITATION PICTOR IGNOTUS FRA LIPPO LIPPI ANDREA DEL SARTO THE BISHOP ORDERS HIS TOMB AT SAINT PRAXED'S CHURCH BISHOP BLOUGRAM'S APOLOGY CLEON RUDEL TO THE LADY OF TRIPOLI ONE WORD MORE SELECTIONS FROM THE POEMS AND PLAYS Edited By Myra Reynolds CONTENTS Introduction— PAGE I. The Life of Browning 7 II. The Poetry of Browning 31 Bibliography 57 Chronological Table 60 Selections from Browning— (The figures in parentheses refer to the pages of the Notes.) Songs from Paracelsus (389) 65 Cavalier Tunes (391) 69 The Lost Leader (391) 72 "How They Brought the Good News" (392) 73 The Flower's Name (393) 76 Meeting at Night (393) 78 Parting at Morning (393) 78 Evelyn Hope (393) 78 Love Among the Ruins (394) 81 Up at a Villa—Down in the City (394) 84 A Toccata of Galuppi's (395) 88 Old Pictures in Florence (396) 91 "De Gustibus—" (399) 101 Home-Thoughts, from Abroad (399) 103 Home-Thoughts, from the Sea (400) 104 Saul (400) 105 My Star (402) 126 Two in the Campagna (403) 126 In Three Days (403) 129 The Guardian-Angel (403) 130 Memorabilia (404) 132 Incident of the French Camp (404) 133 My Last Duchess (404) 135 The Boy and the Angel (404) 137 The Pied Piper of Hamelin (404) 141 The Flight of the Duchess (405) 152 A Grammarian's Funeral (406) 183 "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" (407) 189 How It Strikes a Contemporary (409) 196 Fra Lippo Lippi (409) 200 Andrea Del Sarto (413) 213 The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church (414) 222 Cleon (416) 227 One Word More (417) 239 Abt Vogler (419) 247 Rabbi Ben Ezra (422) 253 Caliban Upon Setebos (423) 260 May and Death (425) 271 Prospice (425) 272 A Face (425) 273 O Lyric Love (425) 274 Prologue to Pacchiarotto (425) 275 House (426) 276 Shop (426) 278 Hervé Riel (426) 282 Good to Forgive (427) 289 "Such a Starved Bank of Moss" (427) 290 Epilogue to the Two Poets of Croisic (427) 290 Pheidippides (427) 295 Muléykeh (428) 302 Wanting Is—What? (428) 309 Never the Time and the Place (428) 310 The Patriot (429) 311 Instans Tyrannus (429) 312 The Italian in England (430) 315 "Round Us the Wild Creatures" (431) 321 Prologue to Asolando (431) 321 Summum Bonum (431) 323 Epilogue to Asolando (431) 324 Pippa Passes (431) 325 Notes 389