This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Robert Browning (1812-1889). The edition includes the very first poem he published to works written at the end of his life, and includes an Introduction, Chronology, and full commentary notes.

• 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 and III


• Saul, sections 1-9


• FROM LETTERS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1852)


• Introductory Essay


• FROM MEN AND WOMEN, I and 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 ... 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


• Dîs 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

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.