Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chronology; A Note on the Selection and Its Ordering; PAULINE: A FRAGMENT OF A CONFESSION (1833); FROM THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY, VOL. X, N.S. 1836, 43-44; 45-46; [Porphyria's Lover] Porphyria; [Johannes Agricola in Meditation] Johannes; BELLS AND POMEGRANATES, NO. I, PIPPA PASSES, (1841); Pippa Passes; FROM BELLS AND POMEGRANATES, No. III, DRAMATIC LYRICS, (1842); [My Last Duchess] Italy and France: II. France; [Soliloquy] Camp and Cloister: II. Cloister (Spanish); In a Gondola; Artemis Prologuizes; Waring; The Pied Piper of Hamelin; FROM HOOD'S MAGAZINE, vol. 1, June 1844; vol. 2, July 1844; vol. 3, March 1845; vol. 3, April 1845; The Laboratory; Garden Fancies: I. The Flower's Name; II. Sibrandus Schnaburgensis; [The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church] The Tomb at St. Praxed's; The Flight of the Duchess, sections 1-9; LETTER TO ELIZABETH BARRETT, 10 JANUARY, 1845; FROM BELLS AND POMEGRANATES, NO. VII, DRAMATIC ROMANCES AND LYRICS (1845); How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix; Pictor Ignotus; [The Italian in England] Italy in England; [The Englishman in Italy] England in Italy; The Lost Leader; Home Thoughts from Abroad, I & III; Saul, sections 1-9; FROM LETTERS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1852); Introductory Essay; FROM MEN AND WOMEN, I & II (1855); I.; 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 Fireside; Any Wife to Any Husband; An Epistle EL Karshish, the Arab Physician; Mesmerism; A Serenade at the Villa; My Star; '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: An Old Story; Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha; Bishop Blougram's Apology; Memorabilia; II.; Andrea del Sarto; In a Year; Old Pictures in Florence; In a Balcony; 'De Gustibus--'; Cleon; Two in the Campagna; A Grammarian's Funeral; Transcendentalism; One Word More; LETTER TO JOHN RUSKIN, 10 DECEMBER, 1855; LETTER TO EUPHRASIA (FANNY) HAWORTH, 20 JULY, 1861; FROM DRAMATIS PERSONAE (1864); [James Lee's Wife] James Lee; Gold Hair: A Legend of Pornic; Dis Aliter Visum; Abt Vogler; Rabbi Ben Ezra; Death in the Desert; Caliban upon Setebos; Confessions; Prospice; Youth and Art; A Face; Mr Sludge the Medium; FROM HELEN'S TOWER, CLANDEBOYE (1870); Helen's Tower; FROM FIFINE AT THE FAIR (1872); Prologue: Amphibian; Epilogue: the Householder; THE INN ALBUM (1875); FROM PACCHIAROTTO (1876); House; Bifurcation; Numpholeptus; A Forgiveness; LA SAISIAZ (1878); FROM DRAMATIC IDYLS, 2ND SERIES (1880); Pan and Luna; FROM JOCOSERIA (1883); Never the Time; FROM FERISHTAH'S FANCIES (1884); Epilogue; FROM ANDREW REID, ED., WHY I AM A LIBERAL (1885); Why I am a Liberal; FROM PARLEYINGS WITH PERSONS OF IMPORTANCE IN THEIR DAY (1887); VI. With Gerard de Lairesse; FROM THE ATHENEUM, JULY 13, 1889; FROM ASOLANDO (1889); Development; Epilogue; Notes; Index of Titles and First Lines $ $ $ http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199599424.do $ http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/images/en_US/covers/large/9780199599424_450.jpg $ $ DSBF; DCF; DSC $ Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Poetry by individual poets; Literary studies: poetry & poets

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of Robert Browning (1812-1889). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this is the first one-volume fully annotated edition of Browning's poetry. It presents work written across the breadth of his career, from the very first poem he published, Pauline, to Asolando, the volume that was published on the day that he died.
The text chosen is, wherever possible, the text of the poem as it was first published by Browning himself, and as a consequence the volume also constitutes a kind of biography that enables students to understand Browning's development over the course of his life. The edition reveals a poet who began as a bold experimentalist, and who continued to experiment throughout a writing career of more than fifty years. Browning is best known for his dramatic monologues, and the dramatic monologues are fully represented in this volume, but he was also a narrative poet, a poet of philosophical reflection, and a poet who fashioned an extraordinary variety of lyric measures. This volume reveals Browning as a far more versatile poet than he is often taken to be. There are two important prose items, an essay on Shelley and a letter to Ruskin which clarify Browning's intellectual stance. The Notes include brief headnotes to each poem followed by detailed annotation, and they assist the reader in developing a full understanding of these masterful poems.
Explanatory notes and commentary are included, to enhance the study, understanding, and enjoyment of these works, and the edition includes an Introduction to the life and works of Browning, and a Chronology.

Richard Cronin has published very widely on nineteenth-century literature. After teaching for many years at the University of Glasgow, he has recently been appointed to a chair at Oxford Brookes University.
Dorothy McMillan is an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Glasgow, and has published widely with a particular focus on Scottish literature and poetry by women.