7 time and pains to turn my work into what the many might,- London, June 9, 1863. In the 1863 edition, Sordello has 5981 lines: Book I, 1000 lines; Bk. II, 1016; Bk. III, 1022; Bk. IV, 1031; Bk. V, 1026; Bk. VI, 886 lines. The odd line in Bk. IV is 1. 281, the last in p. 370. Sordello was also reprinted (with Dedication) in Poetical Works, 6 vols, 1868, where it's the 1st piece in vol. ii, p. 1-217. 1841-6. BELLS AND POMEGRANATES.2 (8 nos.: All in yellow paper covers.) 1841. No. I.-PIPPA PASSES. By Robert Browning, Author of "Paracelsus.' London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXLI. Royal 8vo, 2 cols, p. 1-16. P. 2 is Advertisement,' and Dedication to Serjeant Talfourd. Price 6d. sewed. Biank verse mainly, with 7 songs,3 and prose. Proem-couplets, triplets, fours, fives, a 6, 7, and 8; 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-measure,iambic (214 lines). I. Morning (i. 282 lines; ii. prose, 161 lines). II. Noon (i. 327 lines; ii. prose, 83 lines). III. Evening (i. 229 lines; ii. 91 lines). IV. Night (prose and a song, 221 lines). Epilogue-couplets, triplets, fours, fives, sixes, sevens, and an eight; 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-measure, iambs, with trochees, anapæsts, and amphibrachs (114 lines). In all, 1722 lines. 1 See in the Appendix, notes of all the fresh and ryme-changed lines of the poem in the revized edition. But very many other lines were alterd, tho' their old rymes were kept. 2 On this title, see below, p. 51. 3 1. "All service ranks the same with God," 2 stanzas of 6, aa, bb, cc, 4-measure iambics, in Proem, lines 190-201; 2. A 2-measure anapæstic triplet, "Let the watching lids wink ;" and 3. Pippa's 2-measure song, "The Year's at the spring," 8 lines, iambs and anapæsts, abcd, abcd, in Act I, sc. i; 4. (besides Lutwyche's 4-measure letter, "I am a painter who cannot paint," 52 lines, in iambs, anapasts, and dactyls) Pippa's trochaic song, "Give her but a least excuse to love me," 2 stanzas of 9, ababa, cdcd-trochees, anapasts, iambs--in Act II, sc. i; 5. Pippa's song, "A King lived long ago," in fours, couplets, triplets, a five and a single, 57 iambic and anapæstic lines, 3- and 4-measure (in scene i), with 6. (in scene ii) the Second Girl's Song, "You'll love me yet! and I can tarry," 3 verses of 4, abab, a 4-measure, b 3-, 12 iambic lines, in Act III; 7. "Overhead the tree-tops meet," a seven, aa bb cc d, and nine, eee ff gg hh, 4-measure, 3-, and 5-, trochees, iambs, and anapæsts, at the end of Act IV. The Epilogue ends with the 1st, 5th (slightly alterd), and 6th lines of Pippa's first Song, All service." For Song 5, "A King," see 7', p. 39, above. 135 Of Pacchiarotto, and how he worked in Distemper 1876 155 "Oh Love, Love": 2 stanzas of Euripides' Hippolytus englisht 40 "Oh to be in England" (Home-Thoughts from 1879 Mahaffy's Euripid., 116 124 Orpheus and Eurydice (Lines for Leighton's pic 100 One Way of Love (cald 'Song' in Selections, 1865, p. 87) ... 104 One Word more (to E. B. B.) 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; 7'"Overhead the tree-tops meet" is Song 4 in 486 126 THE RING AND THE BOOK, 4 vols: i & ii in 1868; iii & iv in 1869 19 Rudel & 1 [1 to, in 1849] the Lady of Tripoli S ... ... 114 (St. John's Death in the Desert: see 'A Death.') Part II, § 10-19 (with Part I) 1842 Bells & Pom., III. 1864 Dram. Pers., 77 1873 1855 Men & Women, i. 149 1843 Bells & Pom., IV. 1868 1842 Bells & Pom., III. ... * For the Contents of these Selections, see Appendix, pp. 73-80, below. 30 Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis (Garden-Fancies, 2) 1844 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. London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street. 1833. p. 1-71. 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, however, and right handling were far beyond the artist at that time. R. B. London, December 25, 1867.' |