Robert Browning

INDEX. INDEX. NOTE — The names of the Persons are given in small capitals; titles of literary works in italics; other names in ordinary type; black figures indicate the more detailed references. Only the more important of the incidental quotations are included. Poems are referred to only under their authors' names. AESCHYLUS , 215 . ALLINGHAM, W. , 87 . American fame of Browning, 87 . ARISTOPHANES , 77 , 207 f . ARNOLD, M. , 26 . Asolo, 27 , 50 , 220 , 232 . Athenæum, The, 172 , 251 . BALZAC , 42 , 49 , 86 , 117 . BARRETT, ELIZABETH . See Browning, E.B. BARTOLI , his Simboli, 27 . BENCKHAUSEN , Russian Consul-General, 14 . BÉRANGER , 86 . BLAGDEN, ISA . See BROWNING, R. , letters. BRONSON, Mrs ARTHUR , 220 , 231 . BRONTE, EMILY , her character "Heathcliff," 66 . BROWNING, ROBERT (grandfather), 2 . BROWNING, ROBERT (father), 3 , 6 , 18 , 149 n. , 173 . BROWNING, ROBERT , cosmopolitan in sympathies, English by his art, 1 , 2 ; his birth, 3 ; likeness to his mother, 4 n. ; character of his home, 5 ; boyhood, 5 , 6 ; early sense of rhythm, 7 ; reads Shelley, Keats, and Byron, 8 f. ; journey to St Petersburg, 14 ; first voyage to Italy, 26 f. ; second voyage to Italy, 61 ; correspondence with E.B. Barrett, 78 ; marriage, 81 ; settlement in Italy, 84 ; friendships and society at Florence, 84 f. ; Italian politics, 88 ; Italian scenery, 91 ; Italian painting, 98 f. ; and music, 103 f. ; religion, 110 f. ; his interpretation of In a Balcony , 145 n. ; death of Mrs Browning, 147 ; return to London, 148 ; society, 150 ; summer sojourns in France, 153 f. , 202 f. ; in the Alps, 216 ; death of Miss Egerton-Smith, 216 ; Italy once more, 220 ; Asolo and Venice, 231 f. ; death, 234 . Works— Abt Vogler , 71 , 158 f. Agamemnon (translation of), 215 f. Andrea del Sarto , 70 f. , 100 f. Another Way of Love , 142 . Any Wife to Any Husband , 140 . Appearances , 212 . Aristophanes' Apology , 206 f. Artemis Prologizes , 68 , 190 . Asolando , 220 , 232 f. At the Mermaid , 211 . Bad Dreams , 232 . Balaustion's Adventure , 75 , 190 f. Baldinucci , 214 . Bells and Pomegranates , 16 , 41 f. , 74 . Bifurcation , 213 . Bishop of St Praxed's, The , 70 , 113 , 275 . Blot in the 'Scutcheon, A , 52 f. Blougram's Apology , 14 , 57 , 60 , 90 , 113 , 129 f. , 277 f. Boy and the Angel, The , 113 , 116 . By the Fireside , 94 , 135 f. , 275 . Caliban upon Setebos , 162 f. Cavalier Tunes , 67 . Childe Roland , 95 f. , 262 f. Christmas-Eve and Easter Day , 81 , 114 f. , 162 . Cleon , 113 , 126 f. Clive , 223 . Colombe's Birthday , 53 , 55 f. Confessional, The , 40 , 66 . Cristina , 48 , 68 f. Deaf and Dumb , 295 . Death in the Desert, A , 152 , 160 f. De Gustibus , 90 , 92 , 254 . Dis Aliter Visum , 152 , 156 . Dramas , 37 f. Dramatic Idylls , 221 f. Dramatic Lyrics , 38 f. , 65 f. , 79 . Dramatic Romances , 38 , 79 . Dramatis Personæ , 151-168 , 213 . Echetlos , 222 . Englishman in Italy, The , 93 . Epilogue to Dramatis Personæ , 154 , 167 f. , 296 . Epistle of Karshish, An , 113 , 123 f. Eurydice to Orpheus , 157 . Evelyn Hope , 138 , 293 . Fears and Scruples , 212 . Ferishtah's Fancies , 227 f. Fifine at the Fair , 92 f. , 149 , 197 f. , 209 , 242 . Flight of the Duchess, The , 69 f. , 199 . Flower's Name, The , 68 . Forgiveness, A , 213 . Fra Lippo Lippi , 71 , 101 f. , 112 . Francis Furini , 298 . Gerard de Lairesse , 222 . Gismond , 41 , 57 , 67 . Glove, The , 69 , 70 . Grammarian's Funeral, The , 109 f. Guardian Angel, The , 99 . Halbert and Hob , 222 . Helen's Tower , sonnet, 188 . Heretic's Tragedy, A , 128 f. , 263 . Hervé Riel , 189 f. , 222 . Holy Cross Day , 4 n. , 128 . Home Thoughts from Abroad (quoted), 265 . Home Thoughts from the Sea , 26 . House , 211 . How it Strikes a Contemporary , 108 f. How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix , 27 , 67 , 222 . Hugues of Saxe Gotha, Master , 71 , 105 f. , 113 . In a Balcony , 143 f. In a Gondola , 67 . In a Year , 140 . Incondita , 8 . Inn Album, The , 188 , 208 f. Instans Tyrannus , 66 , 90 . In Three Days , 137 , 141 . Italian in England, The , 91 . Iván Ivánovitch , 14 , 221 , 223 . Ixion , 225 f. James Lee's Wife , 153 f. Jochanan Halkadosh , 225 . Jocoseria , 224 f. Johannes Agricola , 15 f. King Victor and King Charles , 15 , 45 , 50 . Laboratory, The , 38 , 66 . La Saisiaz , 216 f. Last Ride Together, The , 68 , 138 f. , 304 . Life in a Love , 137 . Light Woman, A , 142 . Lost Leader, The , 66 . Lost Mistress, The , 68 , 156 . Love in a Life , 137 . Luria , 60 , 61 f. Madhouse Cells , 16 . Martin Relph , 222 f. , 275 . Men and Women , 25 , 60 , 72 , 74 , 87-147 , 152 , 213 . Muleykeh , 223 . My Last Duchess , 66 , 70 , 213 . My Star , 140 . Natural Magic , 213 . Ned Bratts , 222 . Never the Time and the Place , 226 . Now , 233 . Numpholeptos , 213 . Old Pictures in Florence , 90 , 102 f. One Way of Love , 137 . One Word More , 97 f. , 146 f. Pacchiarotto , 109 , 162 , 188 , 210 f. Pan and Luna , 248 . Paracelsus , 16 f. , 25 , 29 , 38 , 42 . Parleyings with Certain People of Importance , 229 f. Patriot, The , 90 . Pauline , 11 f. Pearl, a Girl, A , 233 . Pheidippides , 222 . Pictor Ignolus , 70 f. Pied Piper, The , 71 f. , 269 . Pippa Passes , 49 f. , 59 , 79 , 91 , 151 , 181 . Popularity , 109 . Porphyria's Lover , 16 . Pretty Woman, A , 142 . Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, 14 , 194 f. Prospice , 109 , 157 . Rabbi ben Ezra , 4 n. , 109 , 157 f . Red-cotton Night-cap Country , 90 (Miranda), 188 , 203 f. Return of the Druses, The , 45 , 46 f. , 64 . Reverie , 233 . Ring and the Book, The , 151 f. , 169-186 , 276 f. Rudel , 68 . Saint Martin's Summer , 213 . Saul , 48 , 72 f. , 113 , 121 f. Serenade at the Villa , 137 . Shelley, Essay on , 20 , 106 f. , 109 f. Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis , 67 , 79 . Sludge, Mr, the Medium , 90 , 165 f. Solomon and Balkis , 225 . Sordello , 15 , 25 f. , 238 . Soul's Tragedy, A , 59 f. Spanish Cloister, The , 79 . Statue and the Bust, The , 142 , 213 . Strafford , 15 , 25 , 42 f. Summum Bonum , 233 . Time's Revenges , 66 . Toccata of Galuppi's, A , 104 f. , 153 . Too Late , 153 . Transcendentalism , 108 . Two in the Campagna , 93 , 134 , 140 , 238 . Two Poets of Croisic, The , 218 f. Woman's Last Word, A , 140 . Women and Roses , 143 . Worst of It, The , 156 . Youth and Art , 152 , 156 . Letters, to E.B.B., 4 n. , 6 , 8 , 49 , 59 n. , 62 , 63 , 65 , 67 , 72 , 75 , 78-83 passim , 85 , 114 f. , 241 , 252 f. , 283 ; to Miss Blagden, 153 , 171 , 173 n. , 249 ; to Miss Flower, 43 ; to Miss Haworth, 26 n. , 44 , 237 ; to Ruskin, 237 ; to Aubrey de Vere, 247 n. BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT MOULTON-BARRETT (wife). First allusion to Browning, 75 ; reads Paracelsus , 75 n. ; her character, early life, and poetry, 76 f. ; correspondence with Browning, 78 f. ; marriage, 81 ; settlement in Italy, 84 ; friendships, society at Florence, 84 f. ; death, 147 ; her relation to Pompilia, 180 . Aurora Leigh , 81 , 87 , 151 , 209 . Songs before Congress , 90 . Sonnets from the Portuguese , 87 . Casa Guidi Windows , 90 . Letters to R.B., 49 , 65 , 77 n. , 78-83 passim , 114 , 251 . Letter to Ruskin, 77 n. Letters to others, 85 , 89 , 92 , 99 , 245 . BROWNING, SARAH ANNA (mother), 4 . BURNS, R. , 40 , 281 . BYRON, LORD , 7 , 8 , 104 , 198 , 218 , 263 . CARLYLE, THOMAS , 36 , 42 , 87 , 150 , 172 , 230 , 256 , 307 . Carnival , Schumann's, 202 . Casa Guidi, 84 f. , 97 . CELLINI, BENVENUTO , 98 . CHAUCER, G. , 41 . COLERIDGE, S.T. , 8 , 95 f. , 134 . CORNARO, CATHARINE , 50 . Cornhill Magazine, The , 190 . DANTE , 29 f. , 33 , 35 , 66 , 120 f. , 261 f. , 308 . DICKENS, CHARLES , 42 , 49 . DOMETT, ALFRED (referred to), 99 . DONNE, JOHN , 6 , 254 n. Dulwich, 6 , 49 , 97 . EGERTON-SMITH, ANN , 216 . EMERSON, R.W. , 256 . EURIPIDES , 173 n. , 191 , 208 . Fano, the Brownings at, 99 . FAUCIT, HELEN (Lady Martin), 43 . FICHTE, J.E. , 288 f. FITZGERALD, EDWARD , 172 , 188 . Florence, 84 f. passim. FLOWER, ELIZA , 11 , 43 . FORSTER, JOHN , 42 . FOX, W.J. , 8 , 14 , 42 , 86 . Germany. German strain in Browning, 4 n. GIOTTO , 99 , 103 . GOETHE, J.W. VON , 5 , 288 ; Faust , 19 , 31 , 50 , 198 , 296 ; Iphigenie , 30 n. ; Metamorphose der Pflanzen , 265 ; Tasso , 30 ; Westöstlicher Divan , 226 . Greek, early studies in, 8 . Gressoney, 226 . HAWORTH, EUPHRASIA FANNY , 27 . HORNE , author of Orion , 80 . HUGO, VICTOR , 86 , 242 . IBSEN, H. , The Wild Duck , 59 . JAMESON, ANNA , 84 . Jews. Browning's attitude towards the Jewish race, 4 n. JONSON, BEN , 38 , 214 . Junius, Letters of , 6 . KEATS, J. , 9 , 73 , 240 f. , 254 . KENYON, JOHN , 73 , 78 , 80 , 82 , 86 . LANDOR, W.S. , 30 n. , 40 f. , 87 f. , 96 , 229 . LEIGHTON, Sir FREDERIC , 71 , 150 . Lucca, the Brownings at, 92 . MACLISE , 67 . MACREADY , 42 f. , 32 . MAETERLINCK, M. , 144 , 162 n. MALORY , 104 . MEREDITH, Mr G. , 168 . Metres, Browning's, 186 , 253 , 261 . MICHELANGELO , 103 . MILL, JOHN STUART , 11 f. MILSAND, JOSEPH , 86 , 188 , 203 , 230 . MILTON, J. , 71 , 261 . Monthly Repository , 14 . MOXON, EDWARD , publisher, 59 n . MUSSET, ALFRED DE , 141 f. NAPOLEON III. , Emperor, 88 f. , 194 . OSSIAN , 7 . PALESTRINA , 103 . Paris, 85 f. , 92 , 106 , 204 . PAUL, SAINT , 308 . PHELPS , actor, 58 . Pisa, 84 . PLATO , 12 , 239 , 307 . PRINSEP, V. , 150 . QUARLES, FRANCIS , 6 . Rezzonico Palace, 231 . RIPERT-MONCLAR, COMTE AMÉDÉE DE , 17 . Rome, the Brownings in, 87 . ROSSETTI, D.G. , 13 f. , 86 f. , 150 . ROSSETTI, Mr W.M. , 171 n. RUSKIN, JOHN , 77 n. , 150 , 237 . SAND, GEORGE , 85 . SCHILLER, F. , 70 , 209 . SCOTT, Sir W. , 93 . SHAKESPEARE, W. , 65 , 200 , 211 ; Romeo and Juliet , 38 ; The Tempest , 50 f. , 162 f. ; Loves Labour's Lost , 56 ; Hamlet , 58 ; Julius Cæsar , 63 ; Othello , 62 ; As You Like It , 95 . SHELLEY, P.B. , 8 , 9 , 12 f. , 20 , 34 , 90 , 110 f. , 183 , 238 , 240 , 254 , 257 , 263 , 271 , 296 . SMART, CHRISTOPHER , his Song to David , 72 . SOUTHEY, R. , 8 . Spiritualism, 87 . SWINBURNE, Mr A.C. , 151 . TENNYSON, ALFRED LORD , 1 , 19 , 31 , 86 f. , 130 , 150 , 172 , 175 , 261 f. TENNYSON, FREDERICK , 150 . THACKERAY, ANNIE (Mrs Ritchie), 203 . THACKERAY, W.M. , 150 . TITTLE, MARGARET , the poet's grandmother, 3 . TRELAWNEY, E.J. , 61 . Trifler, The , 15 . Venice, 27 , 37 . VERDI , 103 . VILLON , 105 . Virgil, Dante's, 30 . Vocabulary, Browning's, 261 . VOLTAIRE , 6 . WALPOLE, HORACE , 6 . WIEDEMANN, WILLIAM , the poet's maternal grandfather, 4 . WISEMAN, CARDINAL , 130 . WOOLNER , 150 . WORDSWORTH , 8 , 32 , 93 f. , 244 , 264 , 268 , 273 , 284 . York (a horse), 27 . THE END. 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