Author:Robert Browning

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Robert Browning (1812–1889)

English poet and playwright; husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Robert Browning

Works

1812-1861

• Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession (1833)
• Sonnet (1834)
• Paracelsus (1835)
• Strafford (1837)
• Sordello (1840)
• Pippa Passes (1841)
• King Victor and King Charles (1842)
• Dramatic Lyrics (1842)
  • Cavalier Tunes
  • My Last Duchess
  • Count Gismond
  • Incident of the French Camp
  • Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
  • In a Gondola
  • Artemis Prologizes
  • Waring
  • Rudel to the Lady of Tripoli
  • Cristina
  • Johannes Agricola in Meditation
  • Porphyria's Lover
  • Through the Metidja to Abd-El-Kadr
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin
• The Return of the Druses (1843)
• A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (1843)
• Colombe's Birthday (1844)
• Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)
  • How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix
  • Pictor Ignotus
  • The Italian in England
  • The Englishman in Italy
  • The Lost Leader
  • The Lost Mistress
  • Home-Thoughts, From Abroad
  • Home-Thoughts, From the Sea
  • Nationality in Drinks
  • The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
  • Garden Fancies
  • The Laboratory
  • The Confessional
  • The Flight of the Duchess
  • Earth's Immortalities
  • Song
  • The Boy and the Angel
  • Meeting at Night
  • Parting at Morning
  • Saul
  • Time's Revenges
  • The Glove
• Luria (1846)
• A Soul's Tragedy (1846)
• Christmas Eve and Easter Day (1850)
• Men and Women (1855)
  • Love Among the Ruins
  • A Lovers' 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 Containing the Strange Medical Experience 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
  • Andrea del Sarto
  • Before (Browning)
  • After (Browning)
  • 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: A Picture at Fano
  • 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
• Ben Karshook's Wisdom (1856)

1861-1889

• Dramatis Personæ (1864) (page scan index)
  • Abt Vogler
  • Rabbi Ben Ezra
  • A Face
  • [Other poems found in this work]
  • James Lee's Wife
  • Gold Hair: A Story of Pornic
  • The Worst of It
  • Dîs Aliter Visum; or Le Byron de nos Jours
  • Too Late
  • A Death in the Desert
  • Caliban upon Setebos
  • Confessions
  • May and Death
  • Deaf and Dumb
  • Prospice
  • Eurydice to Orpheus
  • Youth and Art
  • A Likeness
  • Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"
  • Apparent Failure
  • Epilogue
• The Ring and the Book (1868-1869)
• Balaustion's Adventure (1871)
• Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society (1871)
• Fifine at the Fair (1872)
• Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, or, Turf and Towers (1873)
• Aristophanes' Apology (1875)
• The Inn Album (1875)
• Pacchiarotto (1876)
  • Prologue
  • Of Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper
  • At the "Mermaid"
  • House
  • Shop
  • Pisgah-Sights
  • Fears and Scruples
  • Natural Magic
  • Magical Nature
  • Bifurcation
  • Numpholeptos
  • Appearances
  • St. Martin's Summer
  • Hervé Riel
  • A Forgiveness
  • Cenciaja
  • Filippo Baldinucci on the Privilege of Burial
  • Epilogue
• The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1877)
• La Saisiaz (1878)
• The Two Poets of Croisic (1878)
• Dramatic Idylls (1879)
  • Martin Relph
  • Pheidippides
  • Halbert and Hob
  • Ivàn Ivànovitch
  • Tray
  • Ned Bratts
• Dramatic Idylls: Second Series (1880)
  • "You are sick, that's sure"
  • Echetlos
  • Clive
  • Muléykeh
  • Pietro of Abano
  • Doctor ——
  • Pan and Luna
  • "Touch him ne'er so lightly"
• Jocoseria (1883)
  • Wanting is—what?
  • Donald
  • Solomon and Balkis
  • Cristina and Monaldeschi
  • Mary Wollstonecraft and Fuseli
  • Adam, Lilith, and Eve
  • Ixion
  • Jochanan Hakkadosh
  • Never the Time and the Place
  • Pambo
• Ferishtah's Fancies (1884)
  • Prologue
  1. The Eagle
  2. 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 Sebzevar
  12. A Bean-Stripe: also, Apple-Eating
  • Epilogue
• Why I Am a Liberal (1885)
• Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day (1887)
• Asolando (1889)
  • Prologue
  • Rosny
  • Dubiety
  • Now
  • Humility
  • Poetics
  • Summum Bonum
  • A Pearl, A Girl
  • Speculative
  • White Witchcraft
  • Bad Dreams
  • 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

Collections

• Dramatic Romances (1898) - selections from Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, and Men and Women, edited by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke

Works about Browning

• “Browning, Robert” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Browning, Robert” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• Robert Browning, a biography by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
• “Browning, Robert,” Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son Co., 1921.
• “Browning Robert,” in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 by Foster, Joseph, Oxford: Parker and Co., 1888-1892.

• "Robert Browning" in Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day, by anonymous, illustrated by Frederick Waddy, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1873.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.