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    Selected Poems

    Author Robert Browning
    Edited by Daniel Karlin
    Paperback
    $17.00 US
    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
    On sale Apr 01, 2001 | 352 Pages | 9780140437263
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    Robert Browning, a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era, was hailed by Henry James as a tremendous and incomparable modern. The sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensure enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes both suburban and sublime, combines lyric and demotic language, and introduces everyday events of the streets and marketplace into the rarified world of Victorian poetry.

    This edition includes examples from the early Dramatic Lyrics (1842) and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845); from the masterpieces Mena and Women (1855) and Dramatis Personae (1864), and from the less familiar works of his later years. Together they convey the intensity, the lyric beauty, and the vitality of Browning's poetry.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
    Selected PoemsIntroduction
    Note on the Text
    Porphyria's Lover
    Johannes Agricola in Meditation
    Song from Pippa Passes ("The year's at the spring")
    Scene from Pippa Passes ("There goes a swallow to Venice...")
    My Last Duchess
    Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
    The Pied Piper of Hamelin; A Chld's Story
    "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"
    The Lost Leader
    Meeting at Night
    Parting at Morning
    Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
    The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
    Love Among the Ruins
    A Lovers' Quarrel
    Up at a Villa - Down in the City
    Fra Lippo Lippi
    A Toccata of Galuppi's
    An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
    Mesmerism
    A Serenade at the Villa
    "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
    The Statue and the Bust
    How It Strikes a Contemporary
    The Patriot
    Memorabilia
    Andrea del Sarto
    In a Year
    Cleon
    Two in the Campagna
    A Grammarian's Funeral

    James Lee's Wife
    I. James Lee's Wife Speaks at the Window
    II. By the Fireside
    III. In the Doorway
    IV. Along the Beach
    V. On the Cliff
    VI. Reading a Book, Under the Cliff
    VII. Among the Rocks
    VIII. Beside the Drawing-Board
    IX. On Deck

    Gold Hair: A Story of Pornic
    Dis Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos Jours
    A Death in the Desert
    Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island
    Confessions
    Youth and Art
    A Likeness
    Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"
    Apparent Failure
    Epilogue [to Dramatis Personae]
    House
    Saint Martin's Summer
    Ned Bratts
    Clive
    [Wanting is - what?]
    Donald
    Never the Time and the Place
    The Names
    Now
    Beatric Signorini
    Spring Song

    Notes
    Index of Titles
    Index of First Lines

    ROBERT BROWNING (1812–1889) was born in Camberwell, London, the son of a clerk in the Bank of England. The strongest influence on his education were the books in his father's extensive library, particularly the writings of Byron and Shelley. His dramatic poem Paracelsus, published in 1835, established his reputation and brought him the friendship of the actor-manager William Macready. When Macready's eldest son Willie was ill in bed, Browning wrote for the boy's entertainment the poem of The Pied Piper, a story he remembered from his own childhood. After its appearance in print in 1842, it became a children's classic, attracting new illustrators in every generation.

    In 1846 Robert Browning married a fellow well-known poet, ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING; Elizabeth’s work is now considered among the most accomplished of the Victorian period. The couple eloped to Italy where they lived until Elizabeth's death in 1861. Robert then returned to England to live with his only sister Sarianna, but later he went back to Italy, where he died at the Rezzonico Palace in Venice. View titles by Robert Browning

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    Robert Browning, a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era, was hailed by Henry James as a tremendous and incomparable modern. The sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensure enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes both suburban and sublime, combines lyric and demotic language, and introduces everyday events of the streets and marketplace into the rarified world of Victorian poetry.

    This edition includes examples from the early Dramatic Lyrics (1842) and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845); from the masterpieces Mena and Women (1855) and Dramatis Personae (1864), and from the less familiar works of his later years. Together they convey the intensity, the lyric beauty, and the vitality of Browning's poetry.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    Table of Contents

    Selected PoemsIntroduction
    Note on the Text
    Porphyria's Lover
    Johannes Agricola in Meditation
    Song from Pippa Passes ("The year's at the spring")
    Scene from Pippa Passes ("There goes a swallow to Venice...")
    My Last Duchess
    Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
    The Pied Piper of Hamelin; A Chld's Story
    "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"
    The Lost Leader
    Meeting at Night
    Parting at Morning
    Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
    The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
    Love Among the Ruins
    A Lovers' Quarrel
    Up at a Villa - Down in the City
    Fra Lippo Lippi
    A Toccata of Galuppi's
    An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
    Mesmerism
    A Serenade at the Villa
    "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
    The Statue and the Bust
    How It Strikes a Contemporary
    The Patriot
    Memorabilia
    Andrea del Sarto
    In a Year
    Cleon
    Two in the Campagna
    A Grammarian's Funeral

    James Lee's Wife
    I. James Lee's Wife Speaks at the Window
    II. By the Fireside
    III. In the Doorway
    IV. Along the Beach
    V. On the Cliff
    VI. Reading a Book, Under the Cliff
    VII. Among the Rocks
    VIII. Beside the Drawing-Board
    IX. On Deck

    Gold Hair: A Story of Pornic
    Dis Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos Jours
    A Death in the Desert
    Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island
    Confessions
    Youth and Art
    A Likeness
    Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"
    Apparent Failure
    Epilogue [to Dramatis Personae]
    House
    Saint Martin's Summer
    Ned Bratts
    Clive
    [Wanting is - what?]
    Donald
    Never the Time and the Place
    The Names
    Now
    Beatric Signorini
    Spring Song

    Notes
    Index of Titles
    Index of First Lines

    Author

    ROBERT BROWNING (1812–1889) was born in Camberwell, London, the son of a clerk in the Bank of England. The strongest influence on his education were the books in his father's extensive library, particularly the writings of Byron and Shelley. His dramatic poem Paracelsus, published in 1835, established his reputation and brought him the friendship of the actor-manager William Macready. When Macready's eldest son Willie was ill in bed, Browning wrote for the boy's entertainment the poem of The Pied Piper, a story he remembered from his own childhood. After its appearance in print in 1842, it became a children's classic, attracting new illustrators in every generation.

    In 1846 Robert Browning married a fellow well-known poet, ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING; Elizabeth’s work is now considered among the most accomplished of the Victorian period. The couple eloped to Italy where they lived until Elizabeth's death in 1861. Robert then returned to England to live with his only sister Sarianna, but later he went back to Italy, where he died at the Rezzonico Palace in Venice. View titles by Robert Browning

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