Complete Works of Robert Browning 6: With Variant Readings & Annotations (Complete Works Robert Browning) PDF
Preview Complete Works of Robert Browning 6: With Variant Readings & Annotations (Complete Works Robert Browning)
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING, VOLUME VI Robert Browning in 1865; an engraving based on a photograph by]+ frey. Courtesy of the Armstrong Browning Library. Jnnotf7tianr Volume VI EDITED BY JOHN C. BERKEY ALLAN C. DOOLEY SUSAN E. DOOLEY BAYLOR UNIVERSITY WACO, TEXAS OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS ATHENS, OHXO 1996 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING ALLAN C. DOOLEY, Executive Edi tar JACK W. HERRIN G, General Editor PARK HONAN, Founding Editor ROMA A. KING, JR., Founding Editor DANIEL BERARDINELLI JOHN C. BERKEY MlCHAEL BRlGHT ASHBY BLAND CROWDER SUSAN CROWL SUSAN E. DOOLEY DAVID EWBANK RITA S. HUMPHREY CRAIG TURNER PAUL TURNER Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701 Q 1996 by Ohio University Press and Baylor University Printed in the United States of America Ali rights reserved 99 98 97 96 54321 Ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper OQ Library of Congress Cataloging-Publication (Revised for vol. 6) Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. The complete works of Robert Browning, with variant readings 8c annotations. Editorial board. Vol. 6 edited by John C. Berkey, Allan C. DooIey and Susan E. Dooley. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. I. King, Roma A. (Roma Alvah), 1914- ed. II. Herring, Jack W., 1925- . III. Crowder, A. B. IV. Title. PR4201.K5 1969 821’.8 68- 18389 ISBN O-8214-1 137-3 (v. 6) CONTENTS Page Number PREFACE iX TABLES xxii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxvi MEN AND WOMEN, VOLUME II Andrea de1 Sarto (Called “The Faultless Painter”) 7 Before 16 After 18 In Three Days 19 In a Year 21 Old Pictures in Florence 24 In a Balcony 37 Saul 72 “De Gustibus--” 90 Women and Roses 92 Protus 94 Holy-Cross Day 96 The Guardian-Angel 102 Cle0l-l 105 The Twins 117 Popularity 119 The Heretic’s Tragedy 122 Two in the Campagna 127 A Grammarian’s Funeral 130 One Way of Love 135 Another Way of Love 136 “Transcendentalism: a Poem in Twelve Books” 138 Misconceptions 140 One Word More 141 BEN KARSHOOK’S WISDOM 151 LAST POEMS BY ELIZABETH BARRE-I-I. BROWNING (1862) Dedication 155 Advertisement 156 THE GREEK CHRISTIAN POETS AND THE ENGLISH POETS BY ELIZABETH BARRET BROWNING (1863) Advertisement 157 POETICAL WORKS [ 1863 and 18%) Title Page 159 Dedication 160 Contents 161 Notes 165 EURYDICE TO ORPHEUS; A PICTURE BY LEIGHTON 167 DRAMATIS PERSONX 171 James Lee’s Wile 175 Gold Hair: a Story of Pornic 193 The Worst of It 201 Dis Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos Jours 206 Too Late 214 Abt Vogler 220 Rabbi Ben Ezra 226 A Death in the Desert 235 Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island 259 Confessions 271 May and Death 273 Prospice 275 Youth and Art 276 A Face 280 A Likeness 282 Mr. Sludge, “The Medium” 285 Apparent Failure 352 Epilogue 355 A SELECTION FROM WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING (1865) Preface 361 A SELECTION FROM THE POETRY OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1866) Preface 363 POETICAL WORKS (1868 and 1870) Title page 365 Notes 367 Contents 369 DEAF AND DUMB 373 EDITORIAL NOTES Men and Women, Volume II 377 Ben Karshook’s Wisdom 422 Eurydice to Orpheus 425 Drarnatis Personx 426 Deaf and Dumb 466 CUMULATIVE INDEX OF TITLES 469 This Page Intentionally Left Blank PREFACE 1 CONTENTS This edition of the works of Robert Browning is intended to be complete. It will comprise at least seventeen volumes and will contain: 1. The entire contents of the first editions of Browning’s works, arranged in their chronological order of publication. (The poems in- cluded in Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, and Men and Women, for example, appear in the order of their first publication rather than in the order in which Browning rearranged them for later publication.) 2. All prefaces and dedications which Browning is known to have written for his own works and for those of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 3. The two prose essays that Browning is known to have pub- lished: the review of a book on Tasso, generally referred to as the “Essay on Chatterton,” and the preface for a collection of letters supposed to have been written by Percy Bysshe Shelley, generally referred to as the “Essay on Shelley.” 4. The front matter and the table of contents of each of the col- lected editions (1849,1863,1865,1868 170,751, 1888-1889)w hich Brown- ing himself saw through the press. 5. Poems published during Browning’s lifetime but not collected by him. 6. Poems not published during Browning’s lifetime which have come to light since his death. 7. John Forster’s Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strufford, to which Browning contributed significantly, though the precise extent of his contribution has not been determined. 8. Variants appearing in primary and secondary materials as de- fined in Section II below. 9. Textual emendations. 10. Informational and explanatory notes for each work. 11 PRXMARYANDSECONDARYMATERIALS Aside from a handful of uncollected short works, all of Browning’s works but Asolando (1889) went through two or more editions during ix
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