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[6] Mrs. Bronson has given a vivid picture of the Brownings at Asolo and at Venice in the Century Magazine for 1900 and 1902.
[7] See Miss E. M. Clark in Poet-Lore, Volume II. page 480 (1890).
[8] Poet-Lore, Volume II. page 246 (1890).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The great number of books and articles on Browning and his work is shown by the Bibliography of Biography and Criticism prepared by John P. Anderson of the British Museum and printed in William Sharp's Life of Robert Browning. The selection to be given here can hardly more than suggest this large amount of material.
The 1888-9 edition of Browning's Works by Smith, Elder and Company incorporates Browning's last revisions and his own punctuation. The Macmillan edition in nine volumes in 1894 reproduces this text.
For biographical material important books are:
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett 1845-1846, two volumes, 1902, Harper Brothers.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Edited with Biographical Additions by Frederic G. Kenyon. Macmillan, 1897. (Two volumes in one, 1899.)
The Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Mrs. A. Sutherland Orr in 1891. A new edition, revised and in part rewritten by Mr. Frederick G. Kenyon, was brought out by Houghton, Mifflin and Company in 1908. Mrs. Orr and Mr. Kenyon were both friends of Browning and could speak with authority on many details of his life.
Robert Browning, Personalia, by Edmund Gosse. Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1890. This book consists of a reprint of two articles, one from The Century Magazine on "The Early Career of Robert Browning," and one from The New Review entitled "Personal Impressions." These articles are of exceptional interest because Mr. Gosse lived near Mr. Browning at Warwick Crescent and they were on terms of close friendship. In Critical Kit-Kats, 1896, Mr. Gosse gives the story of Sonnets from the Portuguese.
Robert Browning. In Bookman Biographies, edited by W. Robertson Nicholl. Hodder and Stoughton, London. Many interesting illustrations.
The Century Magazine for 1900 and 1902 gives Mrs. Bronson's account of Browning at Asolo and at Venice.
For general handbooks see:
The Browning Cyclopædia. Edward Berdoe, Macmillan, 1902. Elaborate analysis of each poem. Many textual notes. Interpretations often involved and far-fetched to the point of being untenable.
Handbook of Robert Browning's Works. Mrs. A. Sutherland Orr. First edition, 1885; sixth edition, 1891. Republished by Bell and Sons, London, 1902. Explanatory analysis of each poem. Edition of 1902 contains complete bibliography of Browning's works. Written at the request of the London Browning Society.
For criticism see, as books varying widely in point of view and scope, but each of distinct interest:
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry. Hiram Corson. Boston, 1886.
An Introduction to the Study of Browning. Arthur Symons. London, Cassell and Company, 1886.
Life of Robert Browning. William Sharp. Walter Scott and Company, London, 1897.
The Poetry of Robert Browning. Stopford A. Brooke. Crowell and Company, 1902.
Robert Browning. G. K. Chesterton. Macmillan, 1903.
Robert Browning. C. H. Herford. Dodd, Mead and Company, 1905.
Interpretations of Poetry and Religion, by George Santayana, Scribners, 1900, contains an interesting presentation of Browning's work in a chapter entitled "The Poetry of Barbarism."
Browning Study Programmes by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke, Crowell and Company, 1900, is a series of studies on separate poems or on groups of poems. Often very suggestive and helpful. In Poet-Lore, edited by Miss Clarke and Miss Porter, are, passim, many other valuable studies and notes on Browning. The Camberwell edition of Browning's poems, edited by Miss Clarke and Miss Porter with excellent annotations, was published by Crowell and Company in 1898.
The London Browning Society's Papers and The Boston Browning Society's Papers contain much valuable material on separate poems or on various phases of Browning's life and work.
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
| May 7, | 1812. | Robert Browning born in Camberwell, London. |
| 1824. | Incondita ready for publication. | |
| 1825. | Shelley and Keats read. | |
| 1826. | Left Mr. Ready's school. | |
| 1833. | Pauline published anonymously. | |
| 1833-4. | Travels in Russia and Italy. | |
| 1835. | Paracelsus. | |
| 1837. | Strafford. Acted May 1, 1837, Covent Garden. | |
| 1840. | Sordello. | |
| 1841-6. | Bells and Pomegranates. | |
| 1841. | No. I. Pippa Passes. | |
| 1842. | No. II. King Victor and King Charles. | |
| 1842. | No. III. Dramatic Lyrics. | |
| 1843. | No. IV. The Return of the Druses. | |
| 1843. | No. V. A Blot in the 'Scutcheon. Acted Feb. 11, 1843, Drury Lane. | |
| 1844. | No. VI. Colombe's Birthday. Acted April 25, 1853, Haymarket. | |
| 1845. | No. VII. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics. | |
| 1846. |
No. VIII. Luria and A Soul's Tragedy.
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