Complete works of robert browning vol 06

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING, VOLUME VI Robert Browning in 1865; an engraving based on a photograph frey Courtesy of the Armstrong Browning Library by]+ Jnnotf7tianr Volume VI EDITED JOHN C BERKEY ALLAN C DOOLEY SUSAN E DOOLEY BAYLOR UNIVERSITY WACO, OHIO BY TEXAS UNIVERSITY ATHENS, PRESS OHXO 1996 THE COMPLETE ALLAN C DOOLEY, JACK W PARK ROMA WORKS HERRIN HONAN, A KING, DANIEL OF ROBERT BROWNING Executive Edi tar G, General Editor Founding Editor JR., Founding Editor BERARDINELLI JOHN C BERKEY MlCHAEL ASHBY BRlGHT BLAND CROWDER SUSAN SUSAN CROWL E DAVID RITA DOOLEY EWBANK S HUMPHREY CRAIG PAUL TURNER TURNER Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701 Q 1996 by Ohio University Press and Baylor University Printed in the United States of America Ali rights reserved 99 98 97 96 Ohio University Library Press books 54321 are printed paper OQ of Congress Cataloging-Publication (Revised for vol 6) Browning, Robert, The complete works of Robert readings 8c annotations Vol edited on acid-free 1812-1889 Browning, with Editorial board variant by John C Berkey, Allan C DooIey and Susan E Dooley Includes bibliographical references and indexes I King, Roma A (Roma Alvah), 1914ed II Herring, Jack W., 1925 III Crowder, A B IV Title PR4201.K5 1969 821’.8 68- 18389 ISBN O-8214-1 137-3 (v 6) CONTENTS Page Number iX PREFACE TABLES xxii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxvi MEN AND WOMEN, VOLUME II Andrea de1 Sarto (Called “The Before After 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 Faultless Painter”) 16 18 19 21 24 37 72 90 92 94 96 102 Cle0l-l 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 Misconceptions One Word More BEN LAST KARSHOOK’S THE GREEK CHRISTIAN BY ELIZABETH BARRET Advertisement EURYDICE DRAMATIS WORKS Title Page Dedication Contents Notes TO Books” 151 WISDOM POEMS BY ELIZABETH Dedication Advertisement POETICAL 105 117 119 122 127 130 135 136 138 140 141 BARRE-I-I BROWNING (1862) 155 156 POETS AND BROWNING THE ENGLISH (1863) POETS 157 [ 1863 and 18%) ORPHEUS; 159 160 161 165 A PICTURE 167 BY LEIGHTON PERSONX James Lee’s Wile Gold Hair: a Story of Pornic The Worst of It Dis Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos Jours Too Late Abt Vogler Rabbi Ben Ezra A Death in the Desert Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology Confessions May and Death Prospice Youth and Art A Face A Likeness Mr Sludge, “The Medium” Apparent Failure Epilogue in the Island 171 175 193 201 206 214 220 226 235 259 271 273 275 276 280 282 285 352 355 A SELECTION FROM Preface A SELECTION FROM BARRETT BROWNING Preface POETICAL DEAF AND EDITORIAL CUMULATIVE WORKS Title page Notes Contents WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING (1865) 361 THE POETRY (1866) OF ELIZABETH 363 (1868 and 1870) 365 367 369 DUMB 373 NOTES Men and Women, Volume Ben Karshook’s Wisdom Eurydice to Orpheus Drarnatis Personx Deaf and Dumb INDEX OF TITLES II 377 422 425 426 466 469 This Page Intentionally Left Blank PREFACE CONTENTS This edition of the works of Robert Browning is intended to be complete It will comprise at least seventeen volumes and will contain: The entire contents of the first editions of Browning’s works, arranged in their chronological order of publication (The poems included in Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, and Men and Women, for example, appear in the order of their first publication rather than in the order in which Browning rearranged them for later publication.) All prefaces and dedications which Browning is known to have written for his own works and for those of Elizabeth Barrett Browning The two prose essays that Browning is known to have published: the review of a book on Tasso, generally referred to as the “Essay on Chatterton,” and the preface for a collection of letters supposed to have been written by Percy Bysshe Shelley, generally referred to as the “Essay on Shelley.” The front matter and the table of contents of each of the collected editions (1849,1863,1865,1868 170,751, 1888-1889)which Browning himself saw through the press Poems published during Browning’s lifetime but not collected by him Poems not published during Browning’s lifetime which have come to light since his death John Forster’s Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strufford, to which Browning contributed significantly, though the precise extent of his contribution has not been determined Variants appearing in primary and secondary materials as defined in Section II below Textual emendations 10 Informational and explanatory notes for each work 11 PRXMARYANDSECONDARYMATERIALS Aside from a handful of uncollected short works, all of Browning’s works but Asolando (1889) went through two or more editions during ix Notes to Pages 300-314 3531 madeira red-ink and gamboge The fortified sweet wine from the Madeira Islands is of a red-amber color, which could be simulated by adding coloring agents (like red ink and gamboge, a resin used as a pigment and cathartic) to a cheap sweet wine 4171 Pennsylvanians See 280n above Another catalogue of spir445-481 To turn end O’ your slipper itualist phenomena, this including the confession that some of these effects were produced by conjurors’ tricks B imputed this kind of trickery to Home (see P-C, 5.315) The fictional host of the imaginary seance 453 judge Humgrijjin described in the preceeding lines 4611 Very like a whale See Shakespeare’s Hamlet, 3.2.382 480-813 Saul Caesar The allusion is to two instances in which an older man brings down a younger kinsman In the Bible, King Saul repeatedly opposed and threatened his son Jonathan (I Sam 19 and 20) The Roman general Pompey the Great married the daughter of Julius Caesar, his friend and fellow triumvir As Caesar rose to imperial power he turned against his son-in-law, pursuing him into Greece and defeating him at Pharsalia, in 48 B.C 5231 full West I e., escape westward to the United States Presumably the Via Cavour, a large principal 5261 their Broadway street in Rome A large stone, held in a shoemaker’s lap, was used to 5281 lu@tone beat leather until it was soft enough to make into shoes 5761 prairie-dog B seems to have associated this name with a wild canine rather than the rodent of the plains; perhaps he meant to refer to the coyote 589-911 Milton quavers A collection of ridiculous occurences The earliest poetry of John Milton (1608-74) dates from his sixteenth year and is already mature in manner The reasoning of John Locke (1632-1704), author of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1690), is always clear and cogently expressed The epic poet Homer was illiterate, and the biblical musician Asaph (1 Chron 16:4-7) lived centuries before any system of musical notation had been developed 5951 pothooks Illegible writing 620-271 old prints among them Perhaps recalling some of the old Italian prints in B’s father’s collection; see “A Likeness,” 11.42-43, 54,61 and nn., above 6511 Macbeth The title character of Shakespeare’s popular tragedy, Macbeth 6541 strut and fret his hour See Macbeth, 5.5.25 6551 spuwl Spit 458 Notes to Pages 324-320 Mr Sludge is claiming that his spir6671 St Paul Swedenborg itualism strengthens religious belief, if not the orthodox Christianity of St Paul, then at least the mysticism of Emanuel Swedenborg ( 16881772) The Bs were well-acquainted with the doctrines of Swedenborg, having studied his Con jugal Loue early in their marriage and decided to raise their son Pen according to Swedenborgian principles EBB did, however, object to having her poetry characterized as Swedenborgian See Markus, 219; Porter, op cit above, 43; Landis and Freeman, 207, 216 678-83) Miss Stokes turns-Rahab from the altar During a s& ante, the imaginary Miss Stokes apparently becomes the vehicle for the spirit of the harlot Rehab, who assisted Joshua’s spies before the battle of Jericho In recompense for her assistance, the Israelites allowed Rehab and her family to escape from Jericho when it was burned She serves as an example of faith in the NT (Josh 21-21, 622-25; Heb 11:3 1) The metaphor of a piece of visionary knowledge as a live coal derives from Is 6:6 The well-known story of 691-931 Nelson he was bothered with Admiral Horatio Nelson’s stratagem for refusing an order to break off a battle was popularized in Robert Southey’s Life of Nelson (1813) At the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801, Nelson was told that his commander had run up the signal to retire; Nelson raised his telescope to his blind right eye, claimed to see no such signal, and fought on 7081 Shakespeare The ghost of Shakespeare was one of the ancient worthies frequently summoned up by mediums, 7261 judgment-seat Mr Sludge may be attempting to link his accusers to Pontius Pilate, who sat in the judgment seat when he condemned Jesus (Matt 27:19, John 19:13) 742-441 Mars’ Hill Saint Paul When he was preaching in Athens, Paul was brought before the court of the Areopagus, which was on Mars’ Hill, to be questioned by philosophers The Athenians mocked Paul’s beliefs (Acts 17: 19-33) 7451 new thing Acts 1721 reports that the Athenians went to Mars’ Hill “either to tell or to hear some new thing.” 7741 Solomon The OT King Solomon was proverbially famous for his wisdom, 7791 ‘twist the soup and fish That is, between one course of a dinner and the next 7881 Pasiphae Pasiphae’s reputation for unnatural sexual appetites is hardly just, since in Greek mythology Poseidon punished her husband King Minos by inflicting on Pasiphae a desire for a bull which Minos spared after promising to sacrifice it to the god The “decorator” Notes to Pages 320-330 of 786 apparently wants to engage the prostitute (1.783) to pose for an erotic illustration on a snuff box 801-S] Rapped phosphor-match A list of tricks used by mediums Early investigators of spiritualism soon discovered that “spiritrappings” were easily produced by cracking the joints of the toes or fingers (Podmore, op cit above, 1.185) By removing a hand from the circle and replacing it with a dummy, a medium could be free to operate deceptive devices Sympathetic ink is a 19th-century term for ink that remains colorless until chemically activated Mr Sludge confesses that he uses the luminescence of phosphorus-scrapings to create ghostly lights during a sbance Such lights were called odic because they were produced by an insubstantial fluid force called “odyl” by Karl von Reichenbach in his Researches on Magnetism; EBB reported that she could see odic light (Kintner, 640) 805-61 set the crooked straight A well-known phrase from Is 40:4 and 45:2, but the more apposite use is in Eccles 1:15, “That which is crooked cannot be made straight.” 8321 Use plate delf That is, use silver or gold dishes instead of cheap pottery 8461 Samuel’s ghost appeared to Saul The Witch of Endor, at Saul’s request, calls up the ghost of Samuel, who proceeds to rebuke Saul for disagreeing with Jehovah’s commands (I Sam 28:7-19) 868-691 ignorance green or red That is, because he is colorblind 9211 Charles’s Wuin An old name for the constellation of stars in the N hemisphere known as the Great Bear or the Big Dipper The constellation looks somewhat like a wagon (wain), and the Charles refers to Charlemagne 9291 powder-plots prevented A reference to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when Guy Fawkes was caught before carrying out a plan to blow up the Houses of Parliament 932-371 yourself forgot In 1861, on his way back to England after EBB’s death, B himself had nearly boarded a train which subsequently crashed with great loss of life (Landis and Freeman, 275) The phrasing is reminiscent of 11.3-4 of 9591 hour infinitude William Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence,” first published in A GilChrist’s Life of William Blake (1863), a copy of which was presented to B by Mrs Gilchrist, who finished the work (Reconstruction, Al035) The Bs knew Blake’s poetry as early as 1848 (McAleer, 202n.2) 1024-251 tenth shovel-load nugget Veins of gold are often found in quartz deposits 460 Notes to Pages 331-344 10501 cent per cent A one hundred percent profit 10741 Great and Terrible Nume See Ps 993 10741 Heaven of Heavens A phrase used frequently in the OTT; see Deut 10: 14, Kings 8:27, Chron 2:6, etc Latin for “great and terrible.” 10771 Magnum et terribile The components of a Leyden 1124-261 tin-foil bottle Iz’ghtning jar, a large electrical capacitor from which impressive sparks may be drawn 11401 Bridgewater book The will of the 8th Earl of Bridgewater (1756-1829) provided f8000 to support the writing of treatises “On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation.” Eight Bridgewater treatises on “natural theology” were published between 1833 and 1840 11801 Washington’s oracle The spirit of George Washington was often summoned by American mediums in order to consult him about national affairs 1224-301 Bach’s fiddZe-fugues their head This catalogue of accomplishments ranges from the difficult to the absurd To “Time” with the foil in carte in fencing means to parry at the advantageous moment, with the foil in a specified position; to skate a five means to cut the figure five into the ice in one continuous movement; and to make the red hazard is to sink the red ball in pocket billiards 1268-691 President Beniciu Boy The list is graded from the famous to the forgotten: Abraham Lincoln (1809-65) was president from 1860 until his assassination; Jenny Lind (1820-87) was a worldfamous Swedish soprano who toured extensively in America; B read the works of the American thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) and met him in 1872; the Beniciu Boy was John Heenan, an American boxer from Benicia, Calif., who fought the last bare-knuckle prize fight in England, resulting in a draw with Tom Sayers (see “A Likeness,” 23n above) 12991 Beacon Street A principal street of Boston, Mass 1305-S] lump , leaven Adapted from Cor 5:6-8 1330-391 Herodotus Nile Mr Sludge’s ignorance is glaringly shown here The Greek historian Herodotus (c-490-c-425 B.C.) obviously did not write in Latin; and though he wrote much about Egypt, the custom Sludge refers to is attributed by Herodotus to the Babylonians, who lived far from any city on the Nile (see Herdotus, The Histories, 1.199) 13501 turning To get more wear out of a garment, it would be taken the inside face of the fabric out apart and “turned” -putting 461 Notes to Pages 345-348 13921 harlequin’s pasteboard sceptre Harlequin, a character in French and English comic pantomime, carries a wooden sword, not a pasteboard scepter 1408-91 Bacon , Mary Queen of Scats Francis Bacon (see 81 n above) wrote a “Letter of Advice to Queen Elizabeth” while he was in Parliament; Shakespeare’s comedies, often performed at court, contain many songs; Mary Stuart (1542-87) cousin and rival of Elizabeth I, reigned as Queen of Scotland 1542-67 Such famous people were often called up in skances 14323 Eutopia From Greek, meaning “good place,” often confused with “Utopia,” which means “no place.” “A region of ideal happiness” (OEZI) 1436-371 Poet who sings newer was The historical existence of both the Greek epic poet Homer and the city of Troy of his Iliad were brought into question in the 19th century Much later in his life, B mused about his own encounter with scepticism about Homer in “Development,” published in Asolando (1889) 14391 Lowell The American poet James Russell Lowell (1819-91) was a friend of the Bs and rented their apartment in Casa Guidi while they were in Paris in 1851-52; he shared with EBB an interest in spiritualism 14401 Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82), American poet, was a close friend of W W Story, a member of the B circle in Rome; both of the Bs were familiar with his work Longfellow had attended sCances in the 1850s 14411 Hawthorne B first met the American novelist Nathanial Hawthorne ( 1804-64) in 1858 in Rome; he discussed spiritualism with the Bs and seems to have been sceptical (Porter, op cit above, 54-76) According to Hawthorne, when B told the tale of the Ealing sCance, he avowed his conviction that Home was a fake (P-C, 5.315; see Composition and Sources above) 1450- 14521 Lizard Age Jerome Nupoleon Only some of these references illustrating types of historical writing are specific; the Lizard Age was a Victorian term for the paleontological age when dinosaurs lived (fossils are alluded to in 1454 below); Jerome Bonaparte (17841860} had a falling-out with his brother Napoleon, over Jerome’s marriage to an American girl Jerome’s wife settled in Camberwell, the part of London where B was raised, and gave birth to a son A decree from Napoleon annulled the marriage; Jerome’s son Jerome (1805-70) returned with his mother to Baltimore and was the sire of the American branch of the Bonaparte family Claims by various members of the Bo- 462 Notes to Pages 348-352 naparte family (several named Jerome) to be the rightful heir to the throne of Napoleon were commonplace through the 19th century 14551 fire into fog M Millhauser argues persuasively that this refers to a cosmological concept in Chambers’s Vestiges (“Robert Browning, Robert Chambers, and Mr Home, the Medium,” VN [ 19711, 15-19); see also “Caliban upon Setebos,” Composition and Sources, above A reference to the Greek myth in which 14571 thread labyrinth Ariadne provides Theseus with a thread to be followed back out of the labyrinth of Minos after killing the Minotaur within 14661 Golden City Thebes The ancient Greeks gave the name Thebes to a city in Egypt where Luxor now stands; it became the capital of Egypt and was alluded to by Homer as place of great wealth (Odyssey, 4.127) 14721 Lady Jane Grey For nine days in 1553 Lady Jane Grey (c 1537-54) was crowned Queen of England, diverting the succession from Mary and Elizabeth, daughters of Henry VIII Mary gathered her supporters and Jane Grey was deposed 14741 Queen Elizabeth As the second of Henry VIII’s daughters to reign, Elizabeth I (15331603) ruled from 1558 to 1603, in what has been called England’s Golden Age 14791 arn ica An herb (genus Amica) distilled into a healing salve 1493-941 Twenty V-notes more , Greeley See 65n and 54n above 15231 herring-pond The Atlantic ocean APPARENT FAILURE Date] References in the opening lines of the poem establish the year of composition as 1863; B visited Paris in March, and Paris and Brittany during the summer and early autumn of that year 31 baptism of your Prince The Bs spent many months in Paris in 1855 and 1856; they were there in the spring of 1856 at the time of the birth and baptism of the Prince Imperial, Eugkne Louis Jean Joseph, the son of Napoleon III and the Empress Eugenic 7-81 Congress Buol’s replies Napoleon III (1808-73) hosted an Imperial Congress in February and March 1856 to conclude a peace ending the Crimean War One of the Russian diplomats at this conference was Prince Alexander Gorchakov ( 1798- 1883), who ostentatiously refused to add his signature to the peace treaty In a brilliant stroke of diplomacy, Count Camillo Cavour (1810-61) got the Congress of Paris to treat the Piedmont district of Italy (then under Austrian control) as 463 Notes to Pages 352-355 an equal partner in the peace because 15,000 Piedmontese troops had been sent to the Crimea Thus Cavour took a step towards liberating Italy from Austria, whose representative Count Karl Buol-Schauenstein (1797-1865) strongly opposed this element of the treaty lo] Doric little morgue The old Paris Morgue, with a columned portico typical of the Doric style of architecture, was located at the SE end of the Isle de la Cite, near the cathedral of Notre Dame It was the depository for the bodies of unknown people who died in the river Seine or elsewhere in the city In B’s day, the public could view the corpses in the morgue for purposes of identification According to Mrs Orr (307), B visited the morgue and saw three bodies in 1856 The building was slated for demolition in 1863, but the plan was soon dropped 12) Petrarch’s Sorgue Throughout the second half of his life, the Italian poet Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) sought solitude in the Vaucluse valley, near Avignon in SE France At the head of this valley is a cave in which a spring flows from a large depression to form the source of the river Sorgue In poem 281 of his Le Rime (also identified as Sonnet 240), Petrarch compares the welling up of his recollection of his lost Laura to the flow of this spring (Rime e Trionfi, ed M Apollonio and L Ferro [Brescia, 1972],535-36) The Bs owned a complete edition of Petrarch (Reconstruction, A1480) and knew the poetry well 38-391 Buonaparte Tuileries Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), as emperor of France, lived in the royal palace in the Tuileries gardens in Paris 42-431 red Republic The color red was associated with various types of political radicalism, including socialism, and Zeueller was a contemptuous term for those who, like socialists, opposed the class system The two French Republics (1792-95 and 1848-52) both failed, to be followed by Empires (the first, 1804-14, and the second, 1852-70) 46-471 red black The colors are those of the roulette table, where the gambler had his bad luck 601 after Last, returns the First Adapted from Luke 13:SO EPILOGUE Date and Sources] There is general agreement that this poem was, as its title suggests, written as a late addition to the Dramatis Persona, collection It comments broadly on the volume’s religious and spiritual issues and follows directly from B’s reading of Ernest Renan’s influential La Vie de Jc%us, published on 23 June 1863 B announced on 19 November: “I have just read Renan’s book, and find it weaker and less honest than I was led to expect I am glad it is written: if he thinks he 464 Notes to Pages 355-361 can prove what he says, he has fewer doubts on the subject than I-but mine are none of his” (McAleer, 180) Interestingly, Renan (1823-92) was an acquaintance of 3’s close friend Joseph Milsand; B had Milsand ask Renan about a matter of interest to Isa Blagden (McAleer, 146-52) There is no indication of any direct contact between B and Renan, however B has taken some of the events referred to by “First Speaker, as David” from the biblical books Kings and Chronicles; David was a favorite figure of B’s and is celebrated in “Saul,” see above l-43 Feast of Feasts A Ztar in ro6ed array At the dedication of the temple, Solomon held a great feast (1 Kings 8:65 and Chron 7:lO) At the dedication the Levites assisted the priests in bringing to the altar the Ark of the Covenant and the Tabernacle (1 Kings 83-4 and Chron 5:2-5); see also “Saul,” 60 n above 61 van The front of a large group of people; a shortening of “vanguard.” 7-213 one accord Lord’ This entire passage derives from Chron 5:13-14 and Kings 8:10-11 l-221 Renan See Date and Sources above 241 star Presumably the star of Bethlehem, which “came and stood over where the young child was” (Matt 2:9) 261 Face B said that the “Face” referred to here and later in the poem is the face of Jesus (DeVane, Hbk., 315); he had used the same figure in “Saul,” 11.309-10 (in Men and Women if, above) PREFATORY NOTE TO “SELECTION” (1865) Composition and publication] B not only wrote this note, but also read proof for A Selection from the Works of Robert Browning (London: Edward Moxon, 1865); the volume was the second in the “Moxon’s Miniature Poets” series On the textual authority of the Selection, see Men and Women 11, Text n in the present volume A draft and a corrected proof of the prefatory note (see Reconstruction, E433) are in the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin my old publishers] Moxon was B’s fourth publisher, producing all of his works from Sordello (1840) through the end of the Bells and Pomegranates series (1846) the Selection] That is, Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning, edited by B’s old friends J Forster and B W Procter and published by Chapman and Hall in 1862 B’s involvement in the 1862 volume was minimal , friend] This cryptic passage makes an indimy iltustrious 465 Notes to Pages 361-373 rect bow to Tennyson, who was B’s “predecessor” in that he had provided a selection from his works for the inaugural volume of Moxon’s Miniature Poets earlier in 1865 B inscribed a copy of the Tennyson selection to his son on 28 January 1865 (Reconstruction, A2287) PREFACE TO “SELECTION” FROM EBB (1866) Composition and publication] Contributing to the sudden stream of volumes of selected poems in the 1860s was Chapman and Hall’s A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, published in 1866 with this preface by B He had written to Isa Blagden in October 1865 that he had “just been making a selection of Ba’s poems” (McAleer, 227) The proofs of this volume, corrected by B, are now housed in the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin (see Reconstruction, E512) POETICAL WORKS (1868) Prefatory Note] As this note indicates, circumstances forced B to acknowledge and include Pauline among his works in 1868; his effort to suppress the poem had not quite succeeded The claim that “no syllable” was changed in his 1868 revisions is nearly true, for in the main B confined himself to changes in punctuation In 1888 he went through the poem again, making more extensive revisions (see Volume I of the present edition) Note to Volume 1111 Apparently B included this comment to explain why the contents of Volumes III, IV, and V of the 1868 edition did not follow the plan laid out in his prefatory note to Volume I: these poems are not arranged in “the order of their publication,” but in the categories he had set up in 186% B’s tone may seem a bit disingenuous, since it would have been no great trouble to “disturb this arrangement” during the resetting of his text for the 1868 Poetical Works; but he was deep in the composition of The Ring and The Book at the time, and perhaps did not wish to rethink his categorization of his earlier works DEAF AND DUMB: A GROUP BY WOOLNER Composition and Date] The poem was composed by 24 April 1862, when B hand-delivered it to Woolner’s house (see Amy Woolner, Thomas Woolner, R A., Sculptor and Poet: His Life and Letters [New York, 19171,216) The letter containing the untitled lines is preserved in the ABL (Reconstruction, E78) Its subject was a sculpture by Woolner (1825-92) entitle “Brother and Sister, or Deaf and Dumb.” Woolner was 466 Notes to Page 373 a member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle and had achieved fame with a bust of Tennyson The lines were intended to appear in the catalogue of the International Exhibition of 1862, where Woolner’s piece was shown, but were omitted They were first published in the Poetical Works of 1868, as part of Dr~rnalis Personce B and Woolner had been acquainted since at least September 1855, when both men were present at a gathering of poets and Pre-Raphaelites (D Thomas, Robert Browning, A Life Within Life [New York, 19821, 159) 467 This Page Intentionally Left Blank CUMULATIVE INDEX OF TITLES (Titles of long poems or of collections of short poems are capitalized.) Abt Vogler VI.220 After VI 18 Andrea del Sarto VI.7 Another Way of Love VI 136 Any Wife To Any Husband V.213 Apparent Failure VI.352 Artemis Prologizes III.224 Before VI 16 Ben Karshook’s Wisdom VI 151 Bishop Blougram’s Apology V.293 Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church, The IV.189 BLOT IN THE ‘SCUTCHEON, A IV.3 Boot and Saddle 111.200 Boy and the Angel, The IV.239 By the Fireside V.200 Caliban upon Setebos VI.259 Cavalier Tunes III 197 “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” V-248 CHRISTMAS-EVE AND EASTER-DAY V-49 Christmas-Eve V.53 Claret IV.244 Clcon VI 105 COLOMBE’S BIRTHDAY IV.63 Confessional, The IV.203 Confessions VI.27 Count Gismond 111.203 Cris tina III.239 Deaf and Dumb VI.373 Death in the Desert, A VI.235 “De Gustibus-” VI.90 Dis Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos Jours VI.206 469 DRAMATIC LYRIC III 181 DRAMATIC ROMANCES AND LYRICS IV.147 DRAMATIS PERSON/E VI.171 Earth’s Immortalities IV.237 Easter-Day V.97 Englishman in Italy, The IV 173 Epilogue VI 355 Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician, An V.219 Eurydice to Orpheus VI 167 ESSAY ON CHATTERTON III 159 ESSAY ON SHELLEY V.135 Evelyn Hope V 174 “Eyes Calm Beside Thee” I.53 Face, A VI.280 Flight of the Duchess, The IV.207 Flower’s Name, The IV 194 Fra Lippo Lippi V 183 France and Spain IV.200 Garden Fancies IV 194 Give a Rouse 111.199 Glove, The IV.264 Gold Hair: a Story of Pornic VI 193 Grammarian’s Funeral, A VI I30 Guardian-Angel, The VI 102 “Here’s to Nelson’s Memory!” TV.245 Heretic’s Tragedy, The VI 122 Holy-Cross Day VI.96 Home Thoughts from Abroad IV 187 Home Thoughts from the Sea IV.188 How It Strikes a Contemporary V.274 “How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix” IV 161 In a Balcony VI.37 In a Gondola III.214 In a Year VI.21 Incident of the French Camp III.209 Instans Tyrannus V.24 In Three Days VI 19 Italian in England, The IV 167 470 James Lee’s Wife VI 175 Johannes Agricola in Meditation III.242 KING VICTOR AND KING CHARLES III.83 Laboratory, The IV.200 Last Ride Together, The V.278 Life in a Love V.273 Light Woman, A V.258 Likeness, A VI.282 Lost Leader, The IV 183 Lost Mistress, The IV 186 Love Among the Ruins V 163 Love in a Life V.272 Lover’s Quarrel, A V 167 LURIA IV.28 Marching Along III 197 Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha V.285 May and Death VI.273 Meeting at Night IV.243 Memorabilia V.33 MEN AND WOMEN, VOLUME I V 153 MEN AND WOMEN, VOLUME II VI.3 Mesmerism V.230 Misconceptions VI 140 Mr Sludge, “The Medium” VI.285 My Last Duchess III.201 My Star V.240 Nationality in Drinks IV.244 Old Pictures in Florence VI.24 One Way of Love VI 135 One Word More VI 141 PARACELSUS I.59 PAULINE I.3 Parting at Morning IV.243 Patriot, The V.283 Pictor Ignotus IV 164 Pied Piper of Hamelin, The III.249 PIPPA PASSES III.5 Popularity VI 119 Porphyria’s Lover III.245 471 Pretty Woman, A V.244 Prospice VI.275 Proms VI.94 Rabbi Ben Ezra VI.226 Respectability V.257 RETURN OF THE DRUSES, THE III.263 Rude1 to the Lady of Tripoli III.237 Saul IV.246, VI.72 Serenade at the Villa, A V.237 Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis IV 196 Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister III.21 Song IV.388 SORDELLO II 119 SOUL’S TRAGEDY, A V.3 Statue and the Bust, The V.261 STRAFFORD II.3 Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr III.247 Time’s Revenges IV.261 Toccata of Galuppi’s, A V.197 Tokay IV.244 Too Late VI.214 “Transcendentalism: a Poem in Twelve Books” Twins, The VI.117 Two in the Campagna VI 127 Up at a Villa-Down in the City V.177 Waring III.228 Woman’s Last Word, A V 181 Women and Roses VI.92 Worst of It, The VI.201 Youth and Art VI.276 472 VI 138 ...THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING, VOLUME VI Robert Browning in 1865; an engraving based on a photograph frey Courtesy of the Armstrong Browning Library by]+ Jnnotf7tianr Volume VI... the six volumes of the Works, and can let you have them at once.” Browning evidently kept a sharp eye on the production of all sixteen of the volumes, including those later volumes Browning. .. edition: short forms of ref- ABL Armstrong Browning Library B Browning BrU Browning s list of corrections located at Brown University C1870 Browning s corrections in a copy of Poetical Works ( 1870)