Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are without parallel in the nineteenth century: celebrated poets, they became equally famous for their marriage. Still popular more than a century after their deaths, their poetry vividly reflects the unique nature of their relationship.\ This collection presents the Brownings’ work in the context of their lives: the early years and their initial friendship, their courtship and marriage, the fifteen happy years they spent living in Italy until...
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Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are without parallel in the nineteenth century: celebrated poets, they became equally famous for their marriage. Still popular more than a century after their deaths, their poetry vividly reflects the unique nature of their relationship.This collection presents the Brownings’ work in the context of their lives: the early years and their initial friendship, their courtship and marriage, the fifteen happy years they spent living in Italy until Elizabeth’s death. Whether in short poems such as Elizabeth’s “Hector in the Garden” and Robert’s “Natural Magic,” or in extracts from longer works such as Aurora Leigh and Pauline, the great themes they shared are all represented: love, marriage, illicit passion, England and Italy, childhood, religion, poetry, and nature. Elizabeth’s famous Sonnets from the Portuguese, based on their love affair, is included in its entirety. The poems are augmented with a generous selection of the marvelous letters the Brownings wrote to each other.
Foreword9Robert BrowningLove13Love in a Life14Life in a Love15One Way of Love16Another Way of Love17Cristina19Porphyria's Lover22From Pauline25The Lost Mistress28My Last Duchess29Evelyn Hope32Never the Time and the Place35Now36Meeting at Night37Parting at Morning37Up at a Villa - Down in the City38A Serenade at the Villa43A Toccata of Galuppi's46Love among the Ruins50Two in the Campagna54'De Gustibus-'57A Light Woman59In Three Days62In a Year64Time's Revenges68Popularity71Memorabilia74How it Strikes a Contemporary75My Star80Fame81The Lost Leader82Misconceptions84Inapprehensiveness85Dubiety87Respectability89Humility90Summum Bonum91Speculative92In the Doorway93May and Death95Home-thoughts, from Abroad96Prospice97A Face99Magical Nature100Natural Magic101White Witchcraft102House103Appearances105Elizabeth Barrett BrowningQuestion and Answer109A Woman's Shortcomings110A Man's Requirements112A Sea-side Walk114To Flush, My Dog116Flush or Faunus121Grief122Discontent123Patience Taught by Nature124The Weakest Thing125A Dead Rose126A Denial128The Measure: Hymn IV131A Child's Thought of God133Hector in the Garden134Hiram Powers's Greek Slave139Amy's Cruelty140The North and the South143From Heine145A Musical Instrument149A View Across the Roman Campagna151'Died...'153From Aurora Leigh155Sonnets from the Portuguese175The Best Thing in the World200Letters201Robert Browning: Epilogue251Index of First Lines252
