ROBERT BROWNING - COLLECTED GREAT POEMS (Special NOOK Edition) Robert Browning's Best Loved Poems including Love Among the Ruins, Porphyria's Lover, The Ring and the Book, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and MORE!

OVERVIEW

Robert Browning, along with Alfred Lord Tennyson, is perhaps one of the most well-remembered poets of the Victorian era. Browning lived in a time of transition in British poetry; the great sweep of Romanticism had reached its end, and it would be some decades well after Browning's death before the new excitement of the modern would burst onto the poetic scene. This period of interregnum in English literature would become dominated by poets attempting to transmute the wild energy of the Romantic age into new and tempered forms. Despite this reputation, much of the great advances and revolutions in poetic thinking that would sweep the world beginning in the twentieth century had their genesis in the Victorian era, and one of the greatest poets of this age was Browning.

Browning was influenced strongly by Percy Bysshe Shelley, and in particular Shelley's lengthier dramatic poems such as Prometheus Unbound, which inspired him to the dramatic poetry which would ultimately cement his own reputation. Browning was an accomplished lyric poet, but he would be famous (and, for a time, notorious) for his insistence on vast forms.

Even in his lifetime, Browning was celebrated by other great writers for turning such phrases in his verse as: “The truth is within ourselves;” and “What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew;” and “God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.”

For all of his complexity, he also rendered crystal clear images like this:

The year’s at the spring,
And day’s at the morn;
Morning’s at seven;
The hill-side’s dew-pearl’d;
The lark’s on the wing;
The snail’s on the thorn;
God’s in His heaven—
All’s right with the world!



TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PARACELSUS
PART I
PARACELSUS ASPIRES
PART II
PARACELSUS ATTAINS
PART III
PARACELSUS
PART IV
PARACELSUS ASPIRES
PART V
PARACELSUS ATTAINS
DRAMATIC LYRICS
CAVALIER TUNES.
I. MARCHING ALONG.
II. GIVE A ROUSE.
III. BOOT AND SADDLE.
THE LOST LEADER.
“HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX.”
THROUGH THE METIDJA TO ABD-EL-KADR.
NATIONALITY IN DRINKS.
GARDEN FANCIES.
I. THE FLOWER’S NAME
II. SIBRANDUS SCHAFNABURGENSIS.
SOLILOQUY OF THE SPANISH CLOISTER.
THE LABORATORY.
THE CONFESSIONAL.
CRISTINA.
THE LOST MISTRESS.
EARTH’S IMMORTALITIES.
FAME.
LOVE.
MEETING AT NIGHT.
PARTING AT MORNING.
SONG.
A WOMAN’S LAST WORD.
EVELYN HOPE.
LOVE AMONG THE RUINS.
A LOVERS’ QUARREL.
UP AT A VILLA — DOWN IN THE CITY.
A TOCCATA1 OF GALUPPI’S.
OLD PICTURES IN FLORENCE.
“DE GUSTIBUS —”
HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD.
HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM THE SEA.
SAUL.
MY STAR.
BY THE FIRE-SIDE.
ANY WIFE TO ANY HUSBAND.
TWO IN THE CAMPAGNA.
MISCONCEPTIONS.
A SERENADE AT THE VILLA.
ONE WAY OF LOVE.
ANOTHER WAY OF LOVE.
A PRETTY WOMAN.
RESPECTABILITY.
LOVE IN A LIFE.
LIFE IN A LOVE.
IN THREE DAYS
IN A YEAR.
WOMEN AND ROSES.
BEFORE.
AFTER.
THE GUARDIAN-ANGEL.
MEMORABILIA.
POPULARITY.
MASTER HUGUES OF SAXE-GOTHA.
DRAMATIC ROMANCES
INTRODUCTION
INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP
THE PATRIOT
MY LAST DUCHESS
COUNT GISMOND
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, SHORTLY AFTER THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING IN EUROPE
THE HERETIC’S TRAGEDY
HOLY-CROSS DAY
PROTUS
THE STATUE AND THE BUST
“CHILDE ROLAND TO THE DARK TOWER CAME.”
THE RING AND THE BOOK
INTRODUCTION
HALF-ROME
THE OTHER HALF-ROME
TERTIUM QUID
COUNT GUIDO FRANCESCHINI
GIUSEPPE CAPONSACCHI
POMPILIA
DOMINUS HYACINTHUS DE ARCHANGELIS
JURIS DOCTOR JOHANNES-BAPTISTA BOTTINIUS
THE POPE
GUIDO
THE BOOK AND THE RING