Chapter I: 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
Incident of the French Camp (404) 133
My Last Duchess (404) 135
The Boy and the Angel (404) 137
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (404) 141
The Flight of the Duchess (405) 152
A Grammarian's Funeral (406) 183
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" (407) 189
How It Strikes a Contemporary (409) 196
Fra Lippo Lippi (409) 200
Andrea Del Sarto (413) 213
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church (414) 222
Cleon (416) 227
One Word More (417) 239
Abt Vogler (419) 247
Rabbi Ben Ezra (422) 253
Caliban Upon Setebos (423) 260
May and Death (425) 271
Prospice (425) 272
A Face (425) 273
O Lyric Love (425) 274
Prologue to Pacchiarotto (425) 275
House (426) 276
Shop (426) 278
Hervé Riel (426) 282
Good to Forgive (427) 289
"Such a Starved Bank of Moss" (427) 290
Epilogue to the Two Poets of Croisic (427) 290
Pheidippides (427) 295
Muléykeh (428) 302
Wanting Is--What? (428) 309
Never the Time and the Place (428) 310
The Patriot (429) 311
Instans Tyrannus (429) 312
The Italian in England (430) 315
"Round Us the Wild Creatures" (431) 321
Prologue to Asolando (431) 321
Summum Bonum (431) 323
Epilogue to Asolando (431) 324
Pippa Passes (431) 325

NOTES 389