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Mid-Nineteenth-Century Poetry
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Prefatory note. In Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems, 1887.
Biographical information on Elizabeth Barrett Browning and
Barrett family, prompted by erroneous statements in recent
memoir of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by J. H. Ingram.
Publications not acknowledged by Browning and fugitives
(impromptu verse recorded by other persons, contributions to
albums, occasional verse in letters, etc)
The dance of death. 1826?. Early poem, possibly from lost collection
Incondita. Transcribed and attributed to Browning by his friend
Sarah Flower (later Sarah Flower Adams), in her letter to W. J. Fox
of 31 May 1827. First pbd Cornhill Mag 36 1914.
The first-born of Egypt. Ibid.
Untitled [‘Oh, faithless fair!’]. 1833?. 8 lines. First pbd in Michelmore
catalogue 21, item 66 [c. 1935].
Impromptu on hearing a sermon by the Rev T. R— pronounced
‘heavy’. Epigram (2 lines) on Thomas Ready. Ms in letter to W. J.
Fox conjecturally dated 28 Mar 1833. First pbd Orr, Life and
letters, 1891.
Cockney anthology – a specimen. I On Andrea del Sarto’s Jupiter &
Leda [10 lines]; II On the deleterious effects of tea [4 lines]. Ms
dated 6 Feb 1834. Contribution to album belonging to ‘Anna’,
unidentified. First pbd Poems, ed Pettigrew and Collins, 1981.
Another version of II in ms dated 11 June 1883 with title:
Classicality applied to tea-dealing: a fancy inspired by
Westbourne Grove.
Sonnet [‘Eyes, calm beside thee, (Lady could’st thou know!)’].
Monthly Repository Oct 1834. Signed ‘Z’. Not collected by
Browning.
Untitled [‘Words we might else have been compelled to say’]. 1837.
Epitaph for James Dow and his family, on tombstone in burialground
of St Mary’s Church, Barnsley, Yorks. 20 lines. Browning’s
ms not extant. First correctly identified and pbd by E. G. Bayford
in N & Q 193, June 1948. A different version (possibly an earlier
draft) from transcript by Browning’s sister Sarianna pbd Cornhill
Mag Feb 1914 with conjectural title and date Lines in memory of
his parents (1866).
A forest thought [‘In far Esthonian solitudes’]. 4 Nov 1837.
Browning’s ms (if any) not extant: inscribed in album of William
and Anne Dow on occasion of son’s Christening. First pbd
Country Life 17 1905.
Untitled [‘I will strain my eyes to blindness’]. 37 lines. To Helen
Faucit (Lady Martin), written in her album and dated 4 Mar 1843.
First pbd complete Poetical works ed Jack et al.
Untitled [‘Reader, Robert Browning wishes’]. 8 lines. Ms contribution
to album belonging to Mary Talfourd, dated 6 May 1845.
First pbd with commentary by R. S. Kennedy in Browning Soc
Notes 23 1996.
Untitled [‘And sinners were we to the extreme hour’]. Trn of lines by
Dante. 5 lines. In letter to Elizabeth Barrett of 21 Dec 1845. First
pbd Letters of Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1899.
Untitled [‘Studying my ciphers, with the compass’]. Trn of quatrain
attributed to Pietro of Abano. In letter to Elizabeth Barrett
Browning of 8 Feb 1846 but written earlier. First pbd Letters of
Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ed Browning, 1899.
Another version in note in Pietro of Abano (Dramatic idyls:
second series 1880); another in letter to F. J. Furnivall 21 Oct 1881.
Untitled [‘Where’s Luigi Pulci, that one don’t the man see?’].
Impromptu trn of epigram by Lorenzo de’ Medici. In letter to
Elizabeth Barrett Browning of 8 Feb 1846. First pbd Letters of
Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ed Browning, 1899.
Untitled [‘Be it your unerring rule’]. Trn of epigram by Goethe. 4
lines. In letter to Elizabeth Barrett of 8 Apr 1846, written out as
prose. First pbd Letters of Browning and Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, ed Browning, 1899.
Untitled [‘Could I, heart-broken, reach his place of birth’]. Epigram
on Correggio. In letter to Anna Jameson conjecturally dated 5
May 1846. First pbd Sotheby’s catalogue 10 Dec 1913.
The Moses of Michael Angelo. Ms dated 27 Sep 1850. Trn of sonnet
by Giambattista Felice Zappi. First pbd Cornhill Mag Sep 1914.
Untitled [‘How much upon a level’]. 4 lines. Unpbd. Recorded by
Elizabeth Barrett Browning in letter to Arabella Moulton-
Barrett 30 Apr 1853.
Study of a hand, by Lionard. 1857. Sent, with Barrett Browning’s My
heart and I, to Marguerite Power for pbn in Keepsake, but not
pbd there. Later incorporated in James Lee in Dramatis personae.
Untitled [‘Oh, my Isa! Ah, my Annette!’]. 3 lines in a letter to Isa
Blagden [1 Aug 1857]. Pbd in Dearest Isa, ed E. McAleer, 1951.
Untitled [‘An Angel from his Paradise drove Adam’]. 2 lines reworking
lines by Walter Savage Landor. Ms accompanying letter to
Kate Field dated 21 Aug 1859. First pbd as Landor’s in 1900; first
attributed to Browning in Poems, ed Pettigrew and Collins, 1981.
Untitled [‘Dear Miss Unger’]. 6 lines. Verse skit. First pbd in A catalogue
. . . collected since the printing of the first catalogue in 1886
by the late Frederick Locker Lampson 1900. Ms not extant;
recorded as having been inserted in Locker-Lampson’s copy of
Christmas-eve and Easter-day but probably not contemporary
with pbn (1850); conjecturally after Browning’s return to live in
London 1861.
Very original poem, written with even a greater endeavour than
ordinary after intelligibility, and hitherto only pbd on the first
leaf of the author’s son’s account-book. 4 lines. First pbd N & Q
211, Sep 1966. Ms dated 8 Mar 1864. An unpbd ms dated 10 Aug
1884 has title Economic precept written more than twenty years
ago in the first account-book possessed by my son; it has some
variant readings. Undated fair copy bears title Written in a child’s
account-book by Robert Browning.
Terse verse [‘Hail, ye hills and heaths of Ecclefechan!’]. 8 lines.
Rhyming skit on birthplace of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh
Carlyle. First pbd by Hallam Tennyson in Tennyson: a memoir
1897 from undated ms conjecturally dated Dec 1865.
On being defied to express in a hexameter: ‘You ought to sit on the
safety-valve’. 10 lines in Latin. First pbd Cornhill Mag 37 1914. Ms
dated 22 Feb 1866. Another undated ms exists titled Plane te
valvam; it lacks the last line.
Untitled [‘Don’t play with sharp tools, these are edge ‘uns’]. 2 lines.
Impromptu rhyme (2nd line: ‘My Ned Jones!’). No ms. Recorded
in diary of William Allingham for 21 Apr 1867, pbd 1907.
Untitled [‘And now in turn see Swinburne bent’]. 7 lines. No ms.
First pbd R. Secor, Stud in Browning and his Circle 2 1974 from
record by Violet Hunt from papers of William Allingham referring
to meeting with Browning on 8 Feb 1868.
Untitled [‘Twas Goethe taught us all’]. 4 lines. Skit on pronunciation
of ‘metamorphosis’. First pbd Athenaeum 11 Jan 1896. Ms in
letter to F. T. Palgrave of 1 Apr 1869.
Untitled [‘Dear Hosmer; or still dearer Hatty’]. 29 lines. Roundrobin
invitation. Ms not extant. First pbd C. Carr, Harriet
Hosmer: letters and memories, 1912, from Hosmer’s transcript
dated 5 Sep 1869.
Untitled [‘F. Then, what do you say to the poem of Mizpah? / An outand-out
masterpiece – that’s what it is, Pa!’]. First pbd New
poems, ed F. G. Kenyon, 1914, with title Dialogue between father
and daughter. Ms not extant. Dated here to 1870 on conjecture
that ‘Mizpah’ is transcription error for ‘Rizpah’, title of poem by
Tennyson pbd 1870.
The dogma triumphant: epigram on the voluntary imprisonment
of the Pope as proving his infallibility. 4 lines. First pbd New
poems, ed Kenyon, 1914, from ms signed ‘Italia’ now lost.
Probable date from subject-matter Winter 1870–1.
Untitled [‘The gift is small, / The love is all’]. First pbd B. Miller,
Browning: a portrait, 1952. In letter of 31 Mar 1871 to daughter of
Lady Ashburton accompanying a gift.