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note by Browning]; ed H. B. Forman 1899; 2 vols Westminster
1899; illustr H. Osprovat 1903; ed B. Worsfold 1904; 1908; Oxford
1910; ed G. E. Hadow, Oxford 1911, 1920 (facs); Garden City NY
1961; ed F. B. Pinion 1963; ed P. Turner 1972; ed J. W. Harper 1975.
Vol I: Love among the ruins; A lover’s 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 fire-side; Any wife to any husband;
An epistle of Karshish the Arab physician; Mesmerism; A serenade
at the villa; My star; Instans tyrannus; A pretty woman;
‘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;
Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha; Bishop Blougram’s apology;
Memorabilia. Vol 2: Andrea del Sarto; Before; After; In three days;
In a year; Old pictures in Florence; In a balcony; Saul; ‘De
gustibus –’; Women and roses; Protus; Holy-cross day; The
guardian angel; Cleon; The twins; Popularity; The heretic’s
tragedy; Two in the Campagna; A grammarian’s funeral; One way
of love; Another way of love; ‘Transcendentalism: a poem in
twelve books’; Misconceptions; One word more. From 1868 title
became Men and women. From 1863 contents became
‘Transcendentalism’; How it strikes a contemporary; Artemis
prologuizes [DL]; An epistle; Pictor Ignotus [DRL]; Fra Lippo
Lippi; Andrea del Sarto; The bishop orders his tomb [DRL];
Bishop Blougram’s apology; Cleon; Rudel to the lady of Tripoli
[DL]; One word more. From 1868 Johannes Agricola in meditation
[DL] was inserted after An epistle. For distribution of other
poems, see Poetical works 1863. From 1863 In a balcony became a
separate poem. A supposed 1855 separate issue of The statue and
the bust was a T. J. Wise forgery.
reviews: [Chorley, H. F.] Athenaeum 17 Nov 1855; Saturday Rev
24 Nov 1855; Albion Dec 1855; Putnam’s Mag Dec 1855; Southern
Literary Messenger Dec 1855; Atlas 1 Dec 1855; Critic 1 Dec 1855;
[Forster, J.] Examiner 1 Dec 1855; Leader 1 Dec 1855, cont 8 Dec
1855; Literary Gazette 1 Dec 1855; Spectator 22 Dec 1855; [Morris,
W.] Oxford & Cambridge Mag 1 1856; Bentley’s Misc Jan 1856;
[Masson, D.] British Quart Rev Jan 1856; Christian Examiner and
Literary Misc Jan 1856; [Brimley, G. and T. C. C.] Fraser’s Mag Jan
1856; New Quart Rev Jan 1856; [Simpson, R.], Rambler Jan 1856;
[Eliot, George] Westminster Rev Jan 1856; Guardian 9 Jan 1856;
[Oliphant, M.] Blackwood’s Mag Feb 1856; Crayon Feb 1856; Irish
Quart Rev Mar 1856; Christian Remembrancer Apr 1856, Oct 1857;
Putnam’s Monthly Mag Apr 1856; Dublin Univ Mag June 1856;
McNicoll, T. London Quart Rev 6 July 1856; [Thomson, J. (B. V.)]
Jersey Independent 20 Feb 1862.
Ben Karshook’s wisdom. Keepsake 1856. Not collected by Browning.
May and death. Keepsake 1857. Later included in Dramatis personae
1864.
Untitled.‘Only the prism’s obstruction shows aright’. 8 lines. In
Poetical works 1868 with title Deaf and dumb: a group by
Woolner; as addition to Dramatis personae, placed after May and
death. Ms in letter to Thomas Woolner 24 Apr 1862. Intended to
accompany Woolner’s sculpture of that name, but not ptd in
exhibition catalogue.
Dramatis personae. 1864. Amer edn Boston 1864, 1871, 1874, 1878,
1882. 2nd edn 1864 contains revisions. Ed M. Edwardes 1906
(Temple Classics); illustr E. F. Brickdale 1909; 1910; ed J. O. Beatty
and J. W. Bowyer, New York 1931 (facs); ed D. L. Powell, unpbd
diss. Univ of Pennsylvania 1968; ed F. B. Pinion 1969; James Lee (I
At the window; II By the fire-side; III In the doorway; IV Along
the beach; V On the cliff; VI Under the cliff; VII Among the rocks;
VIII Beside the drawing-board; IX On deck); Gold hair; The worst
of it; Dîs aliter visum; Too late; Abt Vogler; Rabbi ben Ezra; A
death in the desert; Caliban upon Setebos; Confessions; May and
death; Prospice; Youth and art; A face; A likeness; Mr Sludge ‘the
medium’; Apparent failure; Epilogue (First speaker: ‘On the first
of the Feast of Feasts’; Second speaker: ‘Gone now! All gone across
the dark so far’; Third speaker: ‘Witless alike of will and way
divine’). From 1868 James Lee became James Lee’s wife, and the
following sections were renamed: I James Lee’s wife speaks at the
window; VI Reading a book, under the cliff. For additional poems
in Poetical works 1868, see preceding and following items. A supposed
1864 separate issue of Gold hair was a T. J. Wise forgery.
reviews (1st edn): [Conway, M. D.] Morning Star 2 June 1864;
[Massey, G.] Athenaeum 4 June 1864; Examiner 4 June 1864;
Reader 4 June 1864; Sat Rev 18 June 1864; [Hutton, R. H.] Spectator
18 June 1864; London Rev 25 June 1864; Br Quart Rev July 1864;
[Hood, E. P.] Eclectic & Congregational Rev July 1864;
Englishwoman’s Domestic Mag July 1864; B[ell], R. St James’s Mag
July 1864; [Conway, M. D.] Victoria Mag 1 July 1864; Guardian 20
July 1864; [Weiss, J.] Atlantic Monthly Nov 1864; Boston Rev Nov
1864; Christian Examiner Nov 1864; Godey’s Mag Dec 1864. (2nd
edn): Eclectic and Congregational Rev Oct 1864; [Stigand, W.]
Edinburgh Rev Oct 1864; [Weiss, J.] Atlantic Monthly Nov 1864;
Boston Rev Nov 1864; Christian Examiner and Religious Misc
Nov 1864; [Irwin, T. C.] Dublin Univ Mag Nov 1864; [Bagehot, W.]
Nat Rev Nov 1864, rptd in Literary studies, ed R. H. Hutton, 2 vols
1879; G. Christian Spectator Jan 1865; Wedmore, Sir T. F. NMM
1865.
Euridice to Orpheus: a picture by Leighton. Royal Acad exhibition
catalogue 1864 (ptd as prose). From 1868 included in Dramatis
personae, placed after Prospice.
Gold hair: a legend of Pornic. Atlantic Monthly May 1864. Pbd from
advance proofs as part of agreement for Amer edn.
Prospice. Atlantic Monthly June 1864. Pbd from advance proofs as
part of agreement for Amer edn.
Under the cliff [from James Lee] Atlantic Monthly June 1864. Pbd
from advance proofs as part of agreement for Amer edn.
The ring and the book: in four vols. Vols 1–2 1868, vols 3–4 1869; 2
vols Boston 1869, 1870, 1872, 1873, 1877, 1882, 1883, 1886; ‘2 vols in
1’ Boston 1883, 1885, 1886; 4 vols 1872 (‘second edn’), 3 vols 1889; ed
C. Porter and H. A. Clarke 1898; illus 1898; ed F. M. Padelford,
Boston 1899; ed J. Buchan 1908; ed C. W. Hodell 1911 (EL); ed E.
Dowden 1912; New York 1912; London 1919; ed M. J. Moses, New
York 1929; ed A. K. Cook, Oxford 1940; ed W. Sypher, New York
1961; ed R. Altick 1971; tr Ger 1927. Vol 1: I The ring and the book; II
Half-Rome; III Other half-Rome. Vol 2: IV Tertium Quid; V Count
Guido Franceschini; VI Giuseppe Caponsacchi. Vol 3: VII
Pompilia; VIII Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis; IX Juris
Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius. Vol 4: X The Pope; XI Guido;
XII The book and the Ring.
reviews of vol 1: St James’s Mag Dec 1868; Daily Telegraph 4
Dec 1868; London Rev 5 Dec 1868, rptd Every Saturday 2 Jan 1869,
Eclectic Mag Feb 1869; [Hutton, R. H.] Spectator 12 Dec 1868;
Buchanan, R. W. Athenaeum 26 Dec 1868, rptd in Master spirits
1873; Sat Rev 26 Dec 1868; Br Quart Rev Jan 1869; Fortnightly Rev
Jan 1869; [Symonds, J. A.] Macmillan’s Mag Jan 1869; B[agehot?],
W. Tinsley’s Mag Jan 1869; [Wise, J. R.] Westminster Rev 1 Jan 1869;
Press and St James’s Chron 30 Jan 1869; Monthly Religious Mag
July 1869.
reviews of vol 1 of amer edn: [Stedman, E. C.] Round Table 9
Jan 1869; [Conway, M. D.] Atlantic Monthly Feb 1869; [Dennett, J.
R.] Nation 18 Feb 1869; Eclectic Mag Mar 1869; Harper’s New
Monthly Mag Mar 1869; Putnam’s Mag Mar 1869.
reviews of vols 1–2: St James’s Mag Jan 1869; Illus London
News 16 Jan 1869; Guardian 20 Jan 1869; [Hutton, R. H.] Spectator
30 Jan 1869; [Greenwood, F.] Cornhill Mag Feb 1869; Chambers’s
Jnl 24 July 1869.
review of vol 2 of amer edn: Eclectic Mag May 1869.
reviews of vols 2–4: Buchanan, R. W. Athenaeum 20 Mar 1869,
rptd New Eclectic Mag May 1869 and in Master Spirits 1873; [Wise,
J. R.] Westminster Rev 1 Apr 1869.
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