[This index is included to allow the reader to browse the main subjects included in this book. The numbers in brackets are the number of mentions in the original index -- as each mention may be long or short, these numbers should be used only as a general indication.] "Abt Vogler" [3] "After" [1] "Agamemnon of Aeschylus" [1] Alma ----, Letter to [1] "Amphibian" [1] Ancona [1] "Andrea del Sarto" [2] "Andromeda" [1] "Another way of Love" [1] "Any Wife to any Husband" [2] "Apparent Failure" [2] "Appearances" [1] Appearance, Browning's personal [2] Aprile [3] "Aristophanes' Apology" [1] "Ask not one least word of praise" [1] "Asolando" [8] Asolo [2] `The Athenaeum' [1] "Aurora Leigh" [5] Bagni di Lucca [2] Bailey's "Festus" [1] "Balaustion's Adventure" [2] Balzac [6] Barrett, Arabella [2] Barrett, Edward [1] Barrett, Mr. [3] "Beatrice Signorini" [1] Beautiful in Verse, the [1] Beethoven [1] "Before" [1] "Bells and Pomegranates" [3] "Ben Karshook's Wisdom" [1] Berdoe, E. [3] "Bifurcations" [1] "Bishop Blougram" [2] Blake, William [1] "A Blot in the 'Scutcheon" [6] Bossuet and Browning [1] Browning, Clara [1] Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: Browning's early influence on [1]; born March 4, 1809 (really 1806) [1]; her girlhood and early work [1]; death of brother [1]; residence in London [1]; "The Cry of the Children" [1]; friendships with Horne and Kenyon [1]; her appreciation of Browning's poems [1]; correspondence with him [1]; engagement [1]; acquaintance with Mrs. Jameson [1]; marriage [1]; Mr. Barrett's resentment [1]; journey to Paris [1]; thence to Pisa [1]; Browning's love for his wife [1]; "Sonnets from the Portuguese" [1]; in spring to Florence [1]; to Ancona, via Ravenna, in June [1]; winter at Casa Guidi [1]; "Aurora Leigh" [1]; description of poetess [2]; birth of son in 1849 [1]; "Casa Guidi Windows" [1]; 1850, spring in Rome [1]; proposal to confer poet-laureateship on Mrs. Browning [2]; 1851, visits England [1]; winter in Paris [1]; she is enthusiastic about Napoleon III. and interested in Spiritualism [1]; summer in London [1]; autumn at Casa Guidi [1]; winter 1853-4 in Rome, 1856 "Aurora Leigh", death of Kenyon, legacies [1]; 1857, death of Mr. Barrett [1]; 1858, delicacy of Mrs. Browning [1]; July 1858, Brownings travel to Normandy; "Two Poems by Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning", 1854 [1]; 1860, "Poems before Congress", and death of Arabella Barrett [1]; "North and South" [1]; return to Casa Guidi, and death on 28th June 1861 [2]. Browning, Reuben [3] Browning, Robert: born in London in 1812 [3]; his literary and artistic antecedents and contemporaries [1]; his parentage and ancestry [2]; concerning traces of Semitic origin [1]; his sisters [1]; his father [1]; his mother [2]; his uncle, Reuben Browning [1]; the Camberwell home [1]; his childhood [1]; early poems [1]; translation of the odes of Horace [1]; goes to school at Peckham [1]; his holiday afternoons [1];