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The poems of Robert Browning., Selected, edited & introduced by C. Day Lewis. Illustrated with wood engravings by Peter Reddick

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-295) and index

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The poems of Robert Browning.

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Selected, edited & introduced by C. Day Lewis. Illustrated with wood engravings by Peter Reddick

Lyrical poems and dramatic lyrics. Pippa's song (from "Pippa passes") -- Girl's song (from "Pippa Passes") -- The lost leader -- 'How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix' -- The flower's name (from Garden Facies) -- The confessional -- Meeting at night -- A woman's last word -- Evelyn Hope -- Love among the ruins -- Up at a villa -- Down in the city -- A toccata of Galuppi's -- 'De Gustibus' ---' -- Home-thoughts, from abroad -- Home-thoughts, from the sea -- By the fireside -- Any wife to any husband -- Two in the Campagna -- Memorabilia -- Popularity -- The patriot -- The Englishman in Italy -- Waring -- The last ride together -- The Pied Piper of Hamelin -- Porphyria's lover -- Along the beach (from "James Lee's Wife") -- On the cliff (from "James Lee's Wife") -- Dis Aliter Visum; or Le Byron de Nos Jours -- Confessions -- Youth and art -- Amphibian (Prologue to "Fifine at the Fair") -- Shop -- Appearances -- Pheidippides -- Echetlos -- Pan and Luna -- Never the Time and the Place -- Prologue to Asolando -- Bad Dreams I -- Bad Dreams II. Dramatic Monlogues. Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister -- My last Duchess -- Fra Lippo Lippi -- Andrea del Sarto -- The Bishop orders his tomb at Saint Praxed's church -- Bishop Blougram's apology -- Mr. Sludge, 'The Medium'. Quest, illusion, faith. Saul -- 'Childe roland to the dark tower came' -- How it strikes a contemporary -- Abt Vogler -- Rabbi Ben Ezra -- A death in the desert -- Caliban upon Setebos; or, natural theology in the island -- Prospice -- Reverie -- Epilogue