In The 1880s, The Aging Browning Showed Once Again The Remarkable Versatility Of His Lyric And Narrative Talents. Ranging Across Eras And Cultures, The Books Here Reveal His Late Thoughts About History, Myth, Legend, Faith, Love, And Desire. He Had Never Been More Popular, And The Founding Of The Browning Society In 1881 Expanded Both His Audience And His Sense Of His Place In English Letters. The First Title In Volume Xv Is Dramatic Idylls, Second Series (1880). Taking His Subjects From Classical History, Colonial India, Arabian Legend, Medieval Sorcery, Jewish Folk Tales, And Greek Myth, Browning Startles The Reader With The Rapidity Of His Thought And The Inventiveness Of His Art. In Jocoseria (1883) Browning's Subjects Range Across Time And Space From Hebraic Legend To The England Of The Romantics. Such Variety Helped Attract New Readers: Jocoseria Was Immediately Successful, And A Second Edition Was Printed In The Same Year As The First. Although Browning's Next Volume, Ferishtah's Fancies (1884), Was So Popular That Three Editions Were Printed In Less Than Two Years, This Artful String Of Anecdotes And Lyrics Has Attracted Little Favorable Criticism. The Materials--persian Legends And Arabic Backgrounds--chimed With The Wildly Popular Orientalism Of Fitzgerald's Rubáiyát, Whistler's Peacock Room, And Alma-tadema's Paintings. But The Thought Was Pure Browning In His Most Optimistic Vein, And Not At All In Tune With The Growing Pessimism Of The Day. As Always In This Series Of Critical Editions, A Complete Record Of Textual Variants Is Provided, As Well As Extensive Explanatory Notes.--publisher's Description. V. 1. Pauline. Sonnet: Eyes Calm Beside Thee. Paracelsus -- V. 2. Strafford. Sordello -- V. 3. Pippa Passes. King Victor And King Charles. Essay On Chatterton. Dramatic Lyrics. The Return Of The Druses -- V. 4. A Blot In The 'scutcheon. Colombe's Birthday. Dramatic Romances And Lyrics. Luria -- V. 5. Souls Tragedy. Poems. Christmas-eve And Easter-day. Essay On Shelley. Men And Women -- V. 6. Men And Women, Volume Ii. Ben Karshook's Wisdom. Last Poems By Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1862). The Greek Christian Poets And The English Poets By Elizabeth Barret Browning (1863). Poetical Works (1863 And 1865). Eurydice To Orpheus; A Picture By Leighton. Dramatis Personae. A Selection From The Works Of Robert Browning (1865). A Selection From The Poetry Of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1866). Poetical Works (1868 And 1870). Deaf And Dumb. Editorial Notes. Cumulative Index Of Titles -- V. 7-9. The Ring And The Book -- V. 10. Balaustion's Adventure; Including A Transcript From Euripides. Prince Hohenstiel-schwangau, Saviour Of Society. V. 11. Fifine At The Fair. Red Cotton Night-cap Country. Editorial Notes -- V. 12. Aristophanes' Apology; Including A Transcript From Euripides; Being The Last Adventure Of Balaustion -- V. 13. The Inn Album. Other Poems. Editorial Notes -- V. 14. The Agamemnon Of Æschylus. La Saisiaz And The Two Poets Of Croisic. Dramatic Idyls, First Series. Editorial Notes -- V. 15. Dramatic Idyls, Second Series. Jocoseria. Ferishtah's Fancies. Editorial Notes -- V. 16. Parleyings With Certain People Of Importance In Their Day. Apolloo And The Fates--a Prologue. With Bernard De Mandeville. With Daniel Bartoli. With Christopher Smart. With George Bubb Dodington. With Francis Furini. With Gerard De Lairesse. With Charles Avison. Fust And His Friends--an Epilogue. Poems By Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1887). Prefatory Note. Poetical Works (1888-89). Title Page. Dedication. Contents -- V. 17. Asolando. Unpublished Or Uncollected Poems. Thomas Wentworth, Earl Of Strafford. Index Of Titles, Volumes 1 -- 17. Editorial Board: Roma A. King, Jr. [and Others] Editors Vary. Some Volumes Co-published With Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.

The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Asolando. Lyrics published between 1882- 1889. Unpublished and Uncollected poems. John Forster's Thomas Wentworth. Earl of Strafford. Addenda and General Index

The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Balaustion's Adventure, Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Fifine at the Fair, Red Cotton Night-Cap Country

The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume VII: With Variant Readings and Annotations (Volume 7) (Complete Works Robert Browning)

The Complete Works of Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book

The complete works of Robert Browning Volume XVI

With Variant Readings & Annotations. Vol. 14

Book I-IV

Browning, Robert; Herring, Jack W.; King, Roma A.

editorial board, Roma A. King, Jr. ... [et al.]

Robert Browning, Daniel Karlin, John Woolford

Robert Browning; Roma A King; Jack W Herring

United States, United States of America

Athen, OH, 1969-<1985 >

Athens, Ohio, 1969

Athens, ©1969-2011

1, PS, 1985

v.9

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Vol. : Edited by John C. Berkey, Allan C. Dooley, Susan E. Dooley.
Vol. 7- : General editor, Jack W. Herring.
Vol. : Edited by Allan C. Dooley, Susan E. Dooley.
Vol. : Edited by Rita S. Patteson, Paul D.L. Turner.
Vol. : Edited by Ashby Bland Crowder.
Vol. : Edited by John C. Berkey ... [et al.].
Vol. : Edited by Susan Crowl, Roma A. King, Jr.
Vols. have imprint: Waco, Tex. : Baylor University ; Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press.
Vol. have imprint: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press ; Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press.

In seventeen volumes, copublished with Baylor University, this acclaimed series features annotated texts of all of Robert Browning's known writing. The series encompasses autobiography as well as influences bearing on Browning's life and career and aspects of Victorian thought and culture.
Volume VII of this set includes Books I through IV of Browning's The Ring and the Book.