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Mid-Nineteenth-Century Poetry
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Prose works not acknowledged
Some strictures on a late article in the Trifler. Trifler Feb 1835.
Humorous essay on debt contributed to mag pbd in Browning’s
circle. Rptd J. Maynard, Browning’s youth, 1977.
Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford. In Lives of eminent British
statesmen vol 2 (Biography section of the Cabinet Cyclopaedia),
1836. By John Forster, with anonymous help from Browning. The
extent of Browning’s contribution seems to have been considerable
but cannot be precisely identified.
Untitled [‘The causes of the failure of undoubtedly the finest actor
of the day’]. Ms draft of unfinished article on William Charles
Macready. First pbd William Baker, Browning Soc Notes 8 1978.
Date probably shortly after production of A blot in the
’scutcheon, 1843.
Conjectures and researches concerning the love madness and
imprisonment of Torquato Tasso. By Richard Henry Wilde. 1842.
Anonymous review in Foreign Quart Rev 39, July 1842. Generally
referred to as Essay on Chatterton; Thomas Chatterton’s career is
real subject after opening remarks on Tasso. Not acknowledged or
collected by Browning. Ed with critical introd by D. Smalley 1948.
Untitled. Note on Wordsworth, probably addressed to R. H. Horne
c. 1843, suggesting an epigraph for his essay on Wordsworth in A
new spirit of the age. First pbd Poems, ed Woolford and Karlin,
1991, vol 1.
Untitled [‘Tizian’s way of painting’]. Trn for William Page c. 1854.
Notes in correction. Attached to Notes on a case of clairvoyance by J.
T. Knowles. Pbd as Knowles’s letter to the editor, Spectator 30 Jan
1869.
Title unknown. Trn from the Latin of Charles II’s grant of arms to
Col W. Carelose. Dated 21 July 1882. 8 pages. Extracts in Sotheby’s
sale catalogue 25 Feb 1918. Current whereabouts unknown.
Untitled. Prose. Notes on Dryope, possibly for his son’s bronze
statue on the subject, 1883. Unpbd.
Undated items: poetry (from The Browning collections, ed
Kelley and Coley, 1984)
Untitled [‘Sipping grog one day at sea’]. 14 lines. First pbd Poems, ed
Pettigrew and Collins, 1981, from undated ms draft of unfinished
poem.
Dictated by the Spirit of Shelley to Sophia [‘When spots of interest
we view’]. 14 lines. Lines 1–7 first pbd Amer Art Assoc catalogue 18
Jan 1935. Ms not extant; date unknown.
Untitled [‘He a recreant; in me a true knight thou dubs’t, and / “On
its own bottom let every tub stand”.]’ First pbd Browning memorials
(Dobell catalogue), 1913. Undated; ms not extant.
Untitled [‘He for his volume meant / To get some emolument.’ First
pbd Browning memorials (Dobell catalogue) 1913. Undated; ms
not extant.
Untitled [‘He said – and stopped the lyre together with the heavenly
voice’]. 4 lines. Unpbd. Trn from Apollonius.
The power of beauty. 8 lines. Trn from Anacreon. First pbd
Catalogue for sale 4249 (the H. B. Smith Collection) of the Amer
Art Assoc – Anderson Galleries, rptd Poems, ed Pettigrew and
Collins, 1981. Undated; ms not extant.
Iliad. Bk viii. 202–31.‘She, thus having spoken, departed, the swiftfooted
Iris’. 30 lines. Browning’s trn. Unpbd.
Untitled [‘Imposthume – costume – I have lost you M’M’].
Browning memorials 1913, item 478.
Untitled [‘O the terror of the death song of Urgandea’]. 6 lines, with
Browning’s comment ‘(nonsense – for the metre’s sake –’).
Unpbd.
Untitled [‘Without their ensigns, axe & fasces’]. Unpbd.
Undated items: prose (from The Browning collections, ed
Kelley and Coley, 1984)
Augustus Caesar. Suggested topic for painting by Browning’s son.
Unpbd.
Ion. Suggested topic for painting by Browning’s son. Unpbd.
Pan and Pheidippides. Suggested topic for painting by Browning’s
son. Unpbd.
The witch of Atlas. Suggested topic for painting by Browning’s son.
Unpbd.
Attributed and spurious works
The following items refer to poems previously thought to be by Browning but
now known to be by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Untitled [‘I am an old and solitary man’]. First pbd with title
‘Aeschylus’ soliloquy’ Cornhill Mag Nov 1913; rptd New poems,
ed Kenyon, 1914 and successive edns include Pettigrew and
Collins 1981; ed Woolford and Karlin in Browning Soc Notes
1978; error based on existence of ms in Browning’s hand, now
known to be a transcript of ms by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Translations from the Anacreontea. 10 trns. First pbd Poems, ed
Pettigrew and Collins, 1981. Now known to be by Elizabeth
Barrett Browning.
Untitled [‘She was fifteen – had great eyes’]. First pbd Poems, ed
Pettigrew and Collins, 1981. Now known to be by Elizabeth
Barrett Browning.
The following items are of doubtful authorship.
Lines on Zermatt churchyard. The Times 30 Aug 1866. Attributed to
Browning N & Q 28 Sep 1867.
Untitled [‘Go forth o song amid the banks of morning’]. 3 lines on
verso of ms by Elizabeth Barrett Browning dated 1844. Unpbd.
Untitled [‘Hath man’s censorious baseness gone about’]. 10 lines. In
letter to R. H. Horne conjecturally dated 1844. First pbd
Anderson Galleries catalogue 15 Mar 1920. Ms not extant.
To my critics. Examiner 5 Aug 1876. 28 lines on controversy with
Alfred Austin.
Untitled [‘Footfall through this tanglewood’]. Ms (unsigned and
undated) not extant. 5 stanzas of varying length, nd. Anderson
Galleries catalogue 10 Nov 1924.
Letters and accounts, Letters and autobiographical documents
Separate pbn of individual letters included in vols 1–14 of The Brownings’
correspondence, ed P. Kelley et al (i.e. to 1846), not listed. Biographies which
include letters (e.g. Orr 1891) not separately listed.
General collections
Wise, T. J. (ed). Letters from Browning to T. J. Wise and other correspondents.
1912. (priv ptd). First major collection.
Hood, T. L. (ed). Letters of Browning collected by Thomas J. Wise.
1933.
DeVane, W. C. and K. L. Knickerbocker (ed). New letters of
Browning. 1950.
Kelley, P. and R. Hudson (ed; from vol 9 Kelley and S. Lewis). The
Brownings’ correspondence. 1984– . Vol 1 (1809–26) 1984; vol 2
(1827–31) 1984; vol 3 (1832–7) 1985; vol 4 (1838–40) 1986; vol 5
(1841–May 1842) 1987; vol 6 (June 1842–Mar 1843) 1988; vol 7
(Apr–Sep 1843) 1989; vol 8 (Oct 1843–May 1844) 1990; vol 9
(June–Dec 1844) 1991; vol 10 (Jan–June 1845) 1992; vol 11 (July
1845–Jan 1846) 1993; vol 12 (Feb–Apr 1846) 1994; vol 13 (May–Sep
1846) 1995; vol 14 (Sep 1846–Dec 1847). Comprehensive edn of
letters from Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with
some letters to them. Vols 1 and 2 contain no letters by Browning.
In progress.
Special collections
Hunt, J. H. L. In The correspondence of Leigh Hunt, 1862.
Mr Browning on his critics. Pall Mall Gazette 19 Feb 1887. Letter
from Browning.
Murray, A. Portrait as Beatrice Cenci, with critical notice containing
four letters from Browning, 1891.
Collingwood, W. G. Life and work of John Ruskin. 1893. One letter
from Browning.