135 Of Pacchiarotto, and how he worked in Distemper 1876 155 "Oh Love, Love": 2 stanzas of Euripides'

ture thus cald): after, 'Eurydice to Orpheus' 1864 R. Academy Catal., 13

2' "Over the sea our galleys went" is the 3rd Song in (2) "Paracelsus," Part IV. 451-523; Works, 1863, iii. 110-113.

7' "Overhead the tree-tops meet" is Song 4 in "Pippa Passes," IV; Works, 1863, iii. 62.

153 LA SAISIAZ [& 154] THE Two Poets of CROISIC 1878 48a Saul, Part I, § 1-9

1876 Pacchiarotto,

108

1845

1855

Bells & Pom., VII. 21
Men & Women, ii. 111

1863

* For the Contents of these Selections, see Appendix, pp. 73-80, below.

30 Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis (Garden-Fancies, 2) 1844 121 Sludge, Mr., the Medium

134 A Wall (is the Prologue to "Pacchiarotto," &c.) 1876

A LIST OF

ROBERT BROWNING'S WORKS

IN THE ORDER OF THEIR PUBLICATION.

"Of all living poets, we are dealing with the profoundest thinker."

1868. Jn. T. Nettleship. Introd. to Essays on Robert Browning's Poetry, p. 11.

[Browning was born at Camberwell on May 7, 1812, went to the Rev. Thos. Ready's school at Peckham till he was near 14, then had a private tutor at home, and attended some lectures at the London University, now University College, London.]

1833. PAULINE; a Fragment of a Confession.

1

Plus ne suis ce que j'ai été,

Et ne le sçaurois jamais être.-MAROT.

p. 1-71.

London Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street. 1833.
Poem dated, at end, p. 71, 'Richmond, October 22, 1832.'
Extract from H. Cor. Agrippa, De Occult. Phil. given as
Forewords, dated London, January, 1833. V. A. XX. Blank
verse. 1030 lines. (See note 1, p. 40-1, below.) Reprinted
for the first time in vol. i. of the 6-vol. edition of the Poetical
Works, 1868, with the following Forewords:

"The poems that follow are printed [more or less] in the
order of their publication. The first piece in the series
[Pauline] I acknowledge and retain with extreme repugnance,
indeed purely of necessity; for not long ago I inspected one,
and am certified of the existence of other transcripts, intended
sooner or later to be published abroad: by forestalling these,
I can at least correct some misprints (no syllable is changed)
and introduce a boyish work by an exculpatory word. The
thing was my earliest attempt at 'poetry always dramatic
in principle, and so many utterances of so many imaginary
persons, not mine,' which I have since written according to a
scheme less extravagant, and scale less impracticable, than
were ventured upon in this crude preliminary sketch-a sketch
that, on reviewal, appears not altogether wide of some hint of
the characteristic features of that particular dramatis persona
it would fain have reproduced: good draughtmanship, how-
ever, and right handling were far beyond the artist at that
time.
R. B.

London, December 25, 1867.'

2

Mr. R. H. Shepherd writes:-'On the fly-leaf of a copy of the original edition of Pauline, formerly in my possession, was the following note in the author's handwriting :

"Pauline-written in pursuance of a foolish plan I forget, or have no wish to remember; involving the assumption of "several distinct characters: the world was never to guess that "such an opera, such a comedy, such a speech proceeded from "the same notable person. Mr. V. A. (see page second) was "Poet of the party, and predestined to cut no inconsiderable "figure. Only this crab' (I find set down in my copy) "remains of the shapely Tree of Life in my fools' Paradise.' "(I cannot muster resolution to deal with the printers' "blunders after the American fashion, and bid people for "jocularity" read "synthesis" to the end of the chapter.)

6

"Dec. 14, 1838."'

[In 1834, Browning spent some time in Russia.]

1835. PARACELSUS. By Robert Browning. London. Published by Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. MDCCCXXXV. p. i-xi, 1-216, post 8vo. Inscribed to the Comte A. de Ripart-Monclar.' Blank verse and songs, 4152 lines.1 Time 1507-1541. In 5 Parts. I. Paracelsus aspires, 1507, p. 1-41; II. Paracelsus attains, 1521, p. 42-71; III. Paracelsus, 1526, p. 72-123; IV. Paracelsus aspires, 1528, p. 124-156; V. Paracelsus attains, 1541, p. 157-200. Note 201-216. Songs, mainly 4-measure: 1. "Lost, lost! yet come," II. 297-339, iii. 42, ed. 1863; 2. "Heap cassia, sandal-buds and stripes" (2 stanzas of 8 fourmeasure lines each, ababbccc), IV. 191-206, iii. 101; 3. “Over the sea our galleys went," IV. 451-523, iii. 110-113; 4. "Thus the Mayne glideth," V. 419-447, in couplets, iii. 135. Forewords: not reprinted :

:

"I am anxious that the reader should not, at the very outset, mistaking my performance for one of a class with which it has nothing in common,-judge it by principles on which it has never been moulded, and subject it to a standard to which it was never meant to conform. I therefore anticipate his discovery, that it is an attempt, probably more novel than happy, to reverse the method usually adopted by writers whose aim it is to set forth any phenomenon of the mind or the passions, by the operation of persons and events; and that, instead of having recourse to an external machinery of incidents to create and evolve the crisis I desire to produce, I have ventured to display somewhat minutely the mood itself in its rise and progress, and have suffered the agency by which

1 Part I, 832 lines; II, 661; III, 1055; IV, 695; V, 909: in all, 4152 lines. The lines are counted from the Works, 1863.