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unbelief!’); III (‘Og’s thigh-bone – if ye deem its measure
strange’).
reviews: Acad 17 Feb 1883; The Times 8 Mar 1883; [Hutton, R. H.]
Spectator 17 Mar 1883; [Watts-Dunton, W. T.] Athenaeum 24 Mar
1883; Saturday Rev 24 Mar 1883; Symons, J. A. Acad 31 Mar 1883;
Lathrop, G. P. Atlantic Monthly June 1883; Shepherd, R. H. GM
June 1883; Harper’s Mag Aug 1883; Fortnightly Rev 1 Nov 1883.
Dramas. Boston 1883, 1885, 1886.
Fifine at the fair, Red cotton night-cap country, and the Inn album
[also contains Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, saviour of society
and Hervé Riel]. Boston 1883, 1885.
Goldoni. Pall Mall Gazette 8 Dec 1883. Sonnet. Ms dated 27 Nov
1883. Not collected by Browning.
Agamemnon, La Saisiaz, Dramatic idyls, and Jocoseria. Boston 1884,
1885, 1886.
Dramatis personae, Dramatic romances and lyrics, Strafford etc.
Boston 1884, 1886.
Ferishtah’s fancies. 1884, Boston 1885, 1886, London 1885 (2nd edn),
1885 (3rd edn). Includes Prologue (‘Pray, Reader, have you eaten
ortolans’); 1 The eagle; 2 The melon-seller; 3 Shah Abbas; 4 The
family; 5 The sun; 6 Mihrab Shah; 7 A camel-driver; 8 Two
camels; 9 Cherries; 10 Plot-culture; 11 A pillar at Sebzevah; 12 A
beanstripe, also apple-eating; Epilogue (‘Oh, Love – no, Love! All
the noise below, Love’). Each numbered poem is followed by an
untitled lyric: [1] ‘Round us the wild creatures, overhead the
trees’; [2] ‘Wish no word unspoken, want no look away!’; [3] ‘You
groped your way across my room i’ the dear dark dead of night’;
[4] ‘Man I am and man would be, Love – merest man and nothing
more’; [5] ‘Fire is in the flint: true, once a spark escapes’; [6] ‘So,
the head aches and the limbs are faint!’ [7] ‘When I vexed you and
you chid me’; [8] ‘Once I saw a chemist take a pinch of powder’; [9]
‘Verse-making was least of my virtues: I viewed with despair’; [10]
‘Not with my Soul, Love! – bid no Soul like mine’; [11] ‘Ask not one
least word of praise!’ [12] ‘“Why from the world” Ferishtah smiled
“should thanks”’.
reviews: [Watts-Dunton, W. T.] Athenaeum 6 Dec 1884; Saturday
Rev 6 Dec 1884; Spectator 6 Dec 1884; Beeching, H. C. Acad 13 Dec
1884; Critic 13 Dec 1884; Daily Telegraph 21 Feb 1885; Woodberry,
G. E. Atlantic Monthly Apr 1885; [Forman, H. B.] London Quart
Rev Jan 1886.
Untitled sonnet [‘Sighed Rawdon Brown: “Yes, I’m departing,
Toni!”’]. Cent Mag Feb 1884. Ms dated 28 Nov 1883. Not collected
by Browning.
The names. In Shakspearean show book (for a charity bazaar) and
Pall Mall Gazette, both 29 May 1884. Sonnet. Ms dated 12 Mar
1884. Not collected by Browning.
The founder of the feast. World 16 Apr 1884. 15 lines. Ms dated 5 Apr
1884. Revised by Browning after pbn to make it a sonnet but not
collected by him.
Why I am a Liberal. In Why I am a Liberal, being definitions by the
best minds of the Liberal party, ed Andrew Reid, 1885. Sonnet.
Duty. Present Day Apr 1886. 12 lines. Not collected by Browning and
not included in any subsequent edn. Rptd with commentary by
M. Mason in TLS 27 Apr 1984.
Spring song [‘Dance, yellows and whites and reds’]. In The new
Amphion: the book of the Edinburgh Univ Union Fancy Fair,
1886. Subsequently incorporated without title as concluding
lines of Parleying With Gerard de Lairesse.
Parleyings with certain people of importance in their day, to wit:
Bernard de Mandeville, Daniel Bartoli, Christopher Smart,
George Bubb Dodington, Francis Furini, Gerard de Lairesse, and
Charles Avison; introduced by a dialogue between Apollo and the
Fates; concluded by another between John Fust and his friends.
1887, Boston 1887. Ed D. W. St John, unpbd diss, Ohio Univ 1976.
Contents as indicated in title with slight variations: Apollo and
the Fates – a prologue; the ‘parleyings’ numbered: I With
Bernard de Mandeville; II With Daniel Bartoli [etc]; Fust and his
friends – an epilogue. With Charles Avison concludes with song
in honour of Pym (‘Fife, trump, drum, sound! and singers then’)
and musical score of Avison’s Grand March.
reviews: Saturday Rev 1 Jan 1887; [Watts-Dunton, T.] Pall Mall
Gazette 28 Jan 1887; [Hutton, R. H.] Spectator 5 Feb 1887; Garrod,
H. B. Acad 12 Feb 1887; Athenaeum 19 Feb 1887; [Oliphant, M.]
Blackwood’s Mag Mar 1887; Westminster Rev Apr 1887;
Woodberry, G. E. Atlantic Monthly May 1887.
Untitled [‘Fifty years’ flight! Wherein should he rejoice’]. 4 lines.
Pall Mall Gazette Jan 1888. Composed for Jubilee window in St
Margaret’s Church, Westminster (window destroyed in World
War II). Ms dated 18 Dec 1887. Not collected by Browning.
The isle’s enchantress [on F. Moscheles’ painting]. Pall Mall Gazette
26 Mar 1889.
Untitled [‘And as I wandered by the happy shores’]. First pbd in F.
Moscheles, Fragments of an autobiography, with his note
explaining that it was a ‘Variation of a description by Moscheles
for The isle’s enchantress’: see preceding entry.
To Edward FitzGerald. Athenaeum 13 July 1889.
Phonograph recording by Browning of first 5 lines of ‘How they
brought the good news from Ghent to Aix’, with his apology for
being unable to go on. 7 Apr 1889 (BBC sound archive).
Lines for the tomb of L. L. Thaxter. Poet-Lore Aug 1889.
Asolando: fancies and facts. 1890 [postdated for 1889], 1890, 1893
(10th edn), Boston 1890. Silently annotated 1894; tr Ital 1938.
Includes Prologue (‘The poet’s age is sad: for why?’); Rosny;
Dubiety; Now; Humility; Poetics; Summum bonum; A pearl, a
girl; Speculative; White witchcraft; Bad dreams I; Bad dreams II;
Bad dreams III; Bad dreams IV; Inapprehensiveness; Which?; The
Cardinal and the dog; The Pope and the net; The bean-feast;
Muckle-mouth Meg; Arcades ambo; The lady and the painter;
Ponte dell’ Angelo, Venice; Beatrice Signorini; Flute-music, with
an accompaniment; ‘Imperante Augusto natus est –’;
Development; Rephan; Reverie; Epilogue (‘At the midnight in
the silence of the sleep-time’). The Cardinal and the dog written
1842.
reviews: Spectator 25 Jan 1889; Saturday Rev 14 Dec 1889; Critic
21 Dec 1889; [Oliphant, M.] Blackwood’s Mag Jan 1890; Symons, A.
Acad 11 Jan 1890; Athenaeum 18 Jan 1890; Phelps, W. L. New
Englander and Yale Rev Mar 1890; Harper’s Mag Apr 1890;
London Quart Rev Apr 1890; Prideaux, W. F. N & Q 3 May 1890.
Prose works, including introductions and prefaces
Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1852. Introd [anon]. All but one of
the letters were discovered to be spurious and the vol withdrawn
soon after pbn. Browning’s piece is generally referred to as the
Essay on Shelley. Rptd by F. J Furnivall for both the Browning Soc
(1881) and the Shelley Soc (1888); Bibelot 1902; Warwick 1903; ed
R. Garnett 1903; ed J. C. Thompson, Hull 1908; ed L. Winstanley,
Boston 1911 (with Shelley, Defence of poetry); ed H. F. B. Brett-
Smith, Oxford 1921 (with Shelley, Defence; Peacock, Four ages of
poetry).
Dedication and Advertisement. Prefacing Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Last poems, 1862.
Advertisement. Preface to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Greek
Christian poets and the English poets, 1863.
Note on Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In A selection of the poetry of
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1866. Another note in her Poems,
1887, contradicting her biographer J. H. Ingram. See Athenaeum
31 Jan 1891.
Introductory note. In Morte dell’ uxorcida Guido Franceschini
decapitato, ed Sir J. Simeon, 1870. Referring to Simeon’s recent
death.
Introduction to the Divine order and other sermons, by Thomas
Jones. 1884.
Robert Browning
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