Author:Robert Browning

Robert Browning
(1812–1889)

Robert Browning by Herbert Rose Barraud, 1888

Works

1812-1861

• Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession (1833)
• Sonnet (1834)
• Paracelsus (1835)
• Strafford (1837)
• Sordello (1840)

Bells and Pomegranates (1841 - 1846)

• Pippa Passes (1841) [Bells and Pomegranates No. 1]

• Spring's at the Morn (1841)

• King Victor and King Charles (1842) [Bells and Pomegranates No. 2]
• Dramatic Lyrics (1842) [Bells and Pomegranates No. 3]
  • Cavalier Tunes
  • Italy, a.k.a My Last Duchess
  • France a.k.a. Count Gismond
  • Incident of the French Camp
  • Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
  • In a Gondola
  • Artemis Prologuizes
  • Waring
  • Rudel and the Lady of Tripoli
  • Cristina
  • Johannes Agricola in Meditation
  • Madhouse Cells a.k.a. Porphyria's Lover
  • Through the Metidja to Abd-El-Kadr
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin
• The Return of the Druses (1843) [Bells and Pomegranates No. 4]
• A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (1843) [Bells and Pomegranates No. 5]
• Colombe's Birthday (1844) [Bells and Pomegranates No. 6]
• Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845) [Bells and Pomegranates No. 7]
  • How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix
  • Pictor Ignotus
  • Italy in England
  • England in Italy
  • The Lost Leader
  • The Lost Mistress
  • Home-Thoughts, From Abroad
  • Home-Thoughts, From the Sea (not a separate poem)
  • Nationality in Drinks (not in this work)
  • The Tomb at St. Praxed's
  • The Flower's Name
  • Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis
  • The Laboratory
  • Spain—The Confessional
  • The Flight of the Duchess
  • Earth's Immortalities
  • Song
  • The Boy and the Angel
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Claret and Tokay
  • Saul
  • Time's Revenges
  • The Glove

"Luria," and "A Soul's Tragedy" [Bells and Pomegranates No. 8]

• Luria (1846)
• A Soul's Tragedy (1846)
• Christmas Eve and Easter Day (1850)
• Two Poems: "A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and "The Twins" by Robert Browning (1854) (external scan)

Men and Women (1855)

• • Love Among the Ruins
  • A Lovers' Quarrel
  • Evelyn Hope
  • Up at a Villa–Down in the City
  • A Woman's Last Word
  • Fra Lippo Lippi
  • A Toccata of Galuppi's
  • By the Fire-side
  • Any Wife to Any Husband
  • An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
  • Mesmerism
  • A Serenade at the Villa
  • My Star
  • Instans Tyrannus
  • A Pretty Woman
  • "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
  • Respectability
  • A Light Woman
  • The Statue and the Bust
  • Love in a Life
  • Life in a Love
  • How It Strikes a Contemporary
  • The Last Ride Together
  • The Patriot
  • Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha
  • Bishop Blougram's Apology
  • Memorabilia
  • Andrea del Sarto
  • Before (Browning)
  • After (Browning)
  • In Three Days
  • In a Year
  • Old Pictures in Florence
  • In a Balcony
  • Saul
  • "De Gustibus—"
  • Women and Roses
  • Protus
  • Holy-Cross Day
  • The Guardian Angel: A Picture at Fano
  • Cleon
  • The Twins
  • Popularity
  • The Heretic's Tragedy
  • Two in the Campagna
  • A Grammarian's Funeral
  • One Way of Love
  • Another Way of Love
  • "Transcendentalism: A Poem in Twelve Books"
  • Misconceptions
  • One Word More
• Ben Karshook's Wisdom (1856)

1861-1889

• Dramatis Personæ (1864)
  • James Lee
  • Gold Hair: A Legend of Pornic
  • The Worst of It
  • Dîs Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de nos Jours
  • Too Late
  • Abt Vogler
  • Rabbi Ben Ezra
  • A Death in the Desert
  • Caliban upon Setebos
  • Confessions
  • May and Death
  • Prospice
  • Youth and Art
  • A Face
  • A Likeness
  • Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"
  • Apparent Failure
  • Epilogue
• Deaf and Dumb
• Eurydice to Orpheus
• The Ring and the Book (1868-1869)
• Balaustion's Adventure (1871)
• Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society (1871)
• Fifine at the Fair (1872)
• Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, or, Turf and Towers (1873)
• Aristophanes' Apology (1875)
• The Inn Album (1875)
• Pacchiarotto (1876)
  • Prologue
  • Of Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper
  • At the "Mermaid"
  • House
  • Shop
  • Pisgah-Sights
  • Fears and Scruples
  • Natural Magic
  • Magical Nature
  • Bifurcation
  • Numpholeptos
  • Appearances
  • St. Martin's Summer
  • Hervé Riel
  • A Forgiveness
  • Cenciaja
  • Filippo Baldinucci on the Privilege of Burial
  • Epilogue
• The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1877)
• La Saisiaz (1878)
• The Two Poets of Croisic (1878)
• Dramatic Idylls (1879)
  • Martin Relph
  • Pheidippides
  • Halbert and Hob
  • Ivàn Ivànovitch
  • Tray
  • Ned Bratts
• Dramatic Idylls: Second Series (1880)
  • "You are sick, that's sure"
  • Echetlos
  • Clive
  • Muléykeh
  • Pietro of Abano
  • Doctor ——
  • Pan and Luna
  • "Touch him ne'er so lightly"
• Jocoseria (1883)
  • Wanting is—what?
  • Donald
  • Solomon and Balkis
  • Cristina and Monaldeschi
  • Mary Wollstonecraft and Fuseli
  • Adam, Lilith, and Eve
  • Ixion
  • Jochanan Hakkadosh
  • Never the Time and the Place
  • Pambo
• Ferishtah's Fancies (1884) (transcription project)
  • Prologue
  1. The Eagle
  2. Melon-Seller
  3. Shah Abbas
  4. The Family
  5. The Sun
  6. Mihrab Shah
  7. A Camel-Driver
  8. Two Camels
  9. Cherries
  10. Plot-Culture
  11. A Pillar at Sebzevar
  12. A Bean-Stripe: also, Apple-Eating
  • Epilogue
• Why I Am a Liberal (1885)
• Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day (1887)
• Asolando (1889)
  • Prologue
  • Rosny
  • Dubiety
  • Now
  • Humility
  • Poetics
  • Summum Bonum
  • A Pearl, A Girl
  • Speculative
  • White Witchcraft
  • Bad Dreams
  • Inapprehensiveness
  • Which?
  • The Cardinal and the Dog
  • The Pope and the Net
  • The Bean-Feast
  • Muckle-mouth Meg
  • Arcades Ambo
  • The Lady and the Painter
  • Ponte dell' Angelo, Venice
  • Beatrice Signorini
  • Flute-Music, with an Accompaniment
  • "Imperante Augusto natus est—"
  • Development
  • Rephan
  • Reverie
  • Epilogue

Collections

• Dramatic Romances (1898) - selections from Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, and Men and Women, edited by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke

Translations

• The Agamemnon of Æschylus (1877)

Works about Browning

• Robert Browning (1903), a biography by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
• "Browning, Robert (Barrett)," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Browning's Death," by George Edward Woodberry in Studies in letters and life (1890)
• "Robert Browning," in Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day, by anonymous, illustrated by Frederick Waddy, London: Tinsley Brothers (1873)
• "Browning," by W. P. Ker in Essays and studies: by members of the English Association (v. 1, pp. 70−84), (ed.) by A. C. Bradley, Oxford: Clarendon Press (1910)
• "Notes on the Genius of Robert Browning", in Biographical and critical studies by James Thomson ("B.V.") (1896), by James Thomson

Encyclopedia articles

• "Browning, Robert," in Men of the Time (eleventh edition), by Thompson Cooper, London: George Routledge and Sons (1884)
• "Browning, Robert," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
• "Browning, Robert," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Browning, Robert," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Browning, Robert," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

Parodies of Browning

• To A. S. by J.K.S.
• The Last Ride Together (From Her point of view) by J.K.S.
• Midsummer by J.K.S.