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into 2 sections (First Year 1730: King Victor Pt I; King Victor Pt II.
Second Year 1731: King Charles Pt I; King Charles Pt II). In verse.
No II of Bells and pomegranates, above. Not produced on stage.
reviews: Spectator 5 Mar 1842; [Forster, J.] Examiner 2 Apr 1842;
[Hemans] Athenaeum 30 Apr 1842; Metropolitan Mag June 1842;
Atlas July 1842.
The serenade. 1842. In British Institution catalogue to accompany
Maclise’s painting of that name. Enlarged as In a gondola in
Dramatic lyrics.
Dramatic lyrics. 1842. No III of Bells and pomegranates, above.
Includes prose Advertisement about dramatic principle of
poems, in subsequent edns ptd as note to Cavalier tunes. Cavalier
tunes (I. Marching along; II Give a rouse; III My wife Gertrude);
Italy and France (I Italy; II France); Camp and cloister (I Camp
(Fr); II Cloister (Sp)); In a gondola; Artemis prologuizes; Waring;
Queen-worship (I Rudel and the lady of Tripoli; II Cristina);
Madhouse cells (I and II); Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr;
The pied piper of Hamelin. From 1849 My wife Gertrude was
titled Boot and saddle; Italy and France became separate poems
with the titles My last duchess and Count Gismond; the sections
of Camp and cloister became Incident of the French camp and
Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister: Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister
became Garden fancies III in 1863, but later detached; the sections
of Queen-worship became separate poems, with one minor
change of title: Rudel to the lady of Tripoli. Ed T. J. Wise 1896; Ed
J. O. Beatty and J. W. Bowyer, New York 1931 (facs).
reviews: Atlas Nov 1842; [Forster, J.] Examiner 26 Nov 1842;
Spectator 10 Dec 1842; Morning Herald 20 Dec 1842; Atlas Feb
1843; Metropolitan Mag Feb 1843; [Hervey, T. K.] Athenaeum Apr
1843; Monthly Mag Apr 1843.
The return of the Druses; a tragedy. 1843. In 5 acts. Verse. No IV of
Bells and pomegranates, above. Not produced on stage. Ed C.
Porter, Boston 1902 (stage version).
reviews: Spectator 4 Feb 1843; Athenaeum 1 July 1843; [Horne, R.
H.] Foreign and Colonial Quart Jan 1844.
A blot in the ’scutcheon; a tragedy. 1843. In 3 acts. Verse. Produced at
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. No V of Bells and pomegranates,
above. In bound copies of Bells and pomegranates 1846, the words
‘Second edition’ appear on the title page of most copies but the
text is rptd rather than revised. Other edns 1892, 1916, 1923, and
in play anthologies. Ed T. F. Wilson 1972. DAI.
reviews: Weekly Chron 12 Feb 1843; Morning Chron 13 Feb 1843;
Morning Post 13 Feb 1843; The Times 13 Feb 1843; Athenaeum 18
Feb 1843; Atlas 18 Feb 1843; [J. Forster] Examiner 18 Feb 1843; John
Bull 18 Feb 1843; Literary Gazette and Jnl of Belle Lettres 18 Feb
1843; Spectator 18 Feb 1843; Era 19 Feb 1843; Weekly Chron 19 Feb
1843; New Monthly Belle Assemblée Mar 1843; Pathfinder 1 Apr
1843; [Lewes, G. H.] Westminster Rev May 1843; New Quart Rev
Oct 1846.
Colombe’s birthday; a play. 1844. In 5 acts. Verse. No VI of Bells and
pomegranates, above. Produced at Haymarket Theatre 1853.
reviews: [Forster, J.] Examiner 22 June 1844; [Horne, R. H.] New
Quart Rev Oct 1844; Athenaeum 19 Oct 1844.
Claret and tokay. Hood’s Mag June 1844. Omitted from Poems 1849;
in Poetical works 1863 incorporated as sections I and II of
Nationality in drinks.
The laboratory. Hood’s Mag June 1844. Included as section I of
France and Spain in Dramatic romances and lyrics 1845.
Garden fancies. [I The flower’s name; II Sibrandus
Schafnaburgensis]. Hood’s Mag July 1844. Included in Dramatic
romances and lyrics 1845.
The boy and the angel. Hood’s Mag Aug 1844. Included in Dramatic
romances and lyrics 1845.
The tomb at St Praxed’s. Hood’s Mag Mar 1845. Included in
Dramatic romances and lyrics 1845. From 1849 titled The Bishop
orders his tomb at St Praxed’s church.
The flight of the duchess. Part the first. Hood’s Mag Apr 1845. Lines
1–215. Completed in Dramatic romances and lyrics 1845.
Dramatic romances and lyrics. 1845. No VII of Bells and pomegranates,
above. How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix;
Pictor ignotus; Italy in England; England in Italy; The lost
leader; The lost mistress; Home-thoughts, from abroad (I ‘Oh, to
be in England’; II ‘Here’s to Nelson’s memory’; III ‘Nobly Cape
Saint Vincent to the north-west died away’); The tomb at St
Praxed’s; Garden fancies (I The flower’s name; II Sibrandus
Schafnaburgensis); France and Spain (I The laboratory; II Spain –
the confessional); The flight of the Duchess; Earth’s immortalities
(I ‘See, as the prettiest graves will do in time’; II ‘So the year’s
done with!’); Song (‘Nay, but you, who do not love her’); The boy
and the angel; Night and morning (I Night; II Morning); Claret
and tokay; Saul; Time’s revenges; The glove. For poems previously
pbd in Hood’s Mag, see preceding entries. From 1849 Italy
in England became The Italian in England, and England in Italy
became The Englishman in Italy. From 1849 Home-thoughts,
from abroad consisted only of ‘Oh, to be in England’.‘Here’s to
Nelson’s memory’ omitted 1849; from 1863 became section III of
Nationality in drinks [‘Beer’]. From 1849 ‘Nobly Cape Saint
Vincent’ became separate poem with title Home-thoughts, from
the sea. From 1849 France and Spain became two separate poems,
The laboratory and The confessional. From 1849 Night and
morning became separate poems (though always ptd together)
with titles Meeting at night and Parting at morning. From 1863
Claret and tokay became pts I and II of Nationality in drinks. Saul
consists of lines 1–190 with note ‘End of pt the first’; the completed
poem with different metrical layout was later included in
Men, and Women 1855. The only known recording of Browning’s
voice includes his attempt to recite ‘How they brought the good
news from Ghent to Aix’, broken off at the beginning of the 2nd
stanza. Rptd 1897; illustr C. Ricketts 1899; illustr E. F. Brickdale,
New York 1909.
reviews: [Forster, J.] Examiner 15 Nov 1845; [Jerrold, D.] Douglas
Jerrold’s Shilling Mag Dec 1845; Critic 27 Dec 1845; [Toulmin, C.]
New Monthly Belle Assemblée Jan 1846; New Quart Rev Jan 1846;
Oxford and Cambridge Rev Jan 1846; [Chorley, H. F.] Athenaeum
17 Jan 1846; Britannia 14 Mar 1846; Christian Remembrancer Apr
1846; Fraser’s Mag June 1846.
Luria [and] A soul’s tragedy. 1846. No VIII of Bells and pomegranates,
above. Includes Luria; a tragedy (in 5 acts; verse); explanatory
note on title of Bells and pomegranates (prose); A soul’s tragedy
(in two pts: I verse; II prose).
reviews: [Fuller, M.] New York Daily Tribune 1 Apr, 10 July 1846;
[Forster, J.] Examiner 25 Apr 1846; NMM and Humorist May 1846;
[Jerrold, D.] Douglas Jerrold’s Shilling Mag June 1846; [Toulmin,
C.] New Monthly Belle Assemblée June 1846; Westminster Rev
June 1846; Hood’s Mag Aug 1846; New Quart Rev Oct 1846.
Christmas-eve and Easter-day. Consists of two separate poems,
Christmas-eve and Easter-day. 1850, 1900, 1907; ed O. Smeaton
1918; H. T. Krynicky, unpbd diss, Univ of Pennsylvania 1972.
reviews: Amer Whig Rev Apr 1850; [Marston, J. W.] Athenaeum 6
Apr 1850; Spectator 6 Apr 1850; Literary Gazette 13 Apr 1850; Critic
15 Apr 1850; [Lewes, G. H.] Leader 27 Apr 1850; [Forster, J.]
Examiner May 1850; [Rossetti, W. M.] Germ May 1850; [Hutton, R.
H.] Prospective Rev May 1850; Atlas 18 May 1850; NMM and
Humorist June 1850; English Rev Sep 1850; [MacDonald, G.]
Monthly Christian Spectator May 1853; Atlantic Monthly May
1864.
The twins. In pam Two poems (with Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s A
plea for the ragged schools of London). 1854. The pam was for sale
at a charity bazaar organised by Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s
sister Arabella. Later included in Men, and women 1855.
Men, and women. 2 vols 1855, 1 vol Boston 1855, London 1856, 1863,
1864, 1866, 1867, 1869, 1874, 1879, 1881, 1883 [with introductory