E-text prepared by Brian Sogard, Carla Foust, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 28041-h.htm or 28041-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/0/4/28041/28041-h/28041-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/0/4/28041/28041-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Minor punctuation errors have been corrected without notice. Other changes are listed at the end. All other inconsistencies are as in the original. The Lake Library Edition SELECTIONS FROM THE POEMS AND PLAYS OF ROBERT BROWNING Edited, with an Introduction by MYRA REYNOLDS Professor of English Literature in the University of Chicago [Illustration: ROBERT BROWNING] Scott, Foresman and Company Chicago Atlanta New York Copyright, 1909 Scott, Foresman and Company 286.4 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