by Hiram Corson
PREFACE.
INTRODUCTION.
I. The Spiritual Ebb and Flow exhibited in English Poetry from Chaucer to Tennyson and Browning.
Popularity.
II. The Idea of Personality and of Art as an intermediate
1. General Remarks.
2. The Idea of Personality as embodied in Browning's Poetry.
3. Art as an Intermediate Agency of Personality.
III. Mr. Browning's "Obscurity".
IV. Browning's Verse.
V. Arguments of the Poems.
Wanting is What?
My Star.
The Flight of the Duchess.
The Last Ride Together.
By the Fireside.
Prospice.
Amphibian.
James Lee's Wife.
A Tale. (The Epilogue to 'The Two Poets of Croisic'.)
Confessions.
Respectability.
Home-Thoughts from Abroad.
Home-Thoughts from the Sea.
Old Pictures in Florence.
Pictor Ignotus. {Florence, 15 .}
Andrea del Sarto. (Called "The Faultless Painter".)
Fra Lippo Lippi.
A Face.
The Bishop orders his Tomb.
A Toccata of Galuppi's.
Abt Vogler.
'Touch him ne'er so lightly', etc.
Memorabilia.
How it strikes a Contemporary.
"Transcendentalism".
Apparent Failure.
Rabbi Ben Ezra.
A Grammarian's Funeral.
An Epistle containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician.
A Martyr's Epitaph.
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister.
Holy-Cross Day.
Saul.
A Death in the Desert.
POEMS.
Wanting is What? (2)
My Star. (2)
The Last Ride Together. (2)
By the Fireside. (2)
Prospice. (2)
Amphibian. (2)
James Lee's Wife. (2)
A Tale.
Epilogue to 'The Two Poets of Croisic'.
Confessions. (2)
Respectability. (2)
Home Thoughts, from Abroad.
Home Thoughts, from the Sea.
Old Pictures in Florence. (2)
Pictor Ignotus. {Florence, 15 .} - - I could have painted
Andrea del Sarto. {Called "The Faultless Painter".} - - - - But
Fra Lippo Lippi. (2)
A Face. (2)
The Bishop orders his Tomb. {Rome, 15 .} - - - - - - - *
A Toccata of Galuppi's. (2)
Abt Vogler. (2)
Memorabilia. (2)
How it strikes a Contemporary. (2)
"Transcendentalism": A Poem in Twelve Books. *
Apparent Failure. "We shall soon lose a celebrated
Rabbi Ben Ezra. (2)
A Grammarian's Funeral. Shortly after the Revival of Learning
An Epistle containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician. (2)
A Martyr's Epitaph. (From 'Easter Day'.) - - - - I was born
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister. (2)
Holy-Cross Day. On which the Jews were forced to attend an Annual Christian Sermon in Rome.
Saul. (2)
A Death in the Desert. (2)
A LIST OF CRITICISMS OF BROWNING'S WORKS.
Notes on the Genius of Robert Browning. By James Thomson.
