27. DRAMATIS PERSONae. By Robert Browning. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1864, pp. vi., 250.
Contents:--1. James Lee [James Lee"s Wife, 1868]. 2. Gold Hair: a Legend of p.o.r.nic. 3. The Worst of it. 4. Dis aliter visum; or, Le Byron de nos jours. 5. Too Late. 6. Abt Vogler.
7. Rabbi ben Ezra. 8. A Death in the Desert. 9. Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island. 10. Confessions.
11. May and Death. 12. Prospice. 13. Youth and Art. 14. A Face. 15. A Likeness. 16. Mr Sludge "The Medium." 17.
Apparent Failure. 18. Epilogue.
28. Orpheus and Eurydice.--_Catalogue of the Royal Academy_, 1864, p.
13. No. 217. A picture by F. Leighton.
Printed as prose. It is reprinted in _Poetical Works_, 1868, where it is included in _Dramatis Personae_. The same volume contains a new stanza of eight lines, ent.i.tled "Deaf and Dumb: a Group by Woolner." This was written in 1862 for Woolner"s partly-draped group of Constance and Arthur, the deaf and dumb children of Sir Thomas Fairbairn, which was exhibited in the International Exhibition of 1862.
29. THE POETICAL WORKS of Robert Browning, M.A., Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 15 Waterloo Place. 1868. Vol. I., pp. viii., 310. Pauline--Paracelsus--Strafford.
Vol. II., pp. iv., 287. Sordello--Pippa Pa.s.ses. Vol. III., pp. iv., 305.
King Victor and King Charles--Dramatic Lyrics--The Return of the Druses.
Vol. IV., pp. iv., 321. A Blot in the "Scutcheon--Colombe"s Birthday--Dramatic Romances. Vol. V., pp. iv., 321. A Soul"s Tragedy--Luria--Christmas Eve and Easter Day--Men and Women. Vol. VI., pp. iv., 233. In a Balcony--Dramatis Personae. This edition retains the redistribution of the minor poems in the edition of 1863, already mentioned.
30. THE RING AND THE BOOK. By Robert Browning, M.A., Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. In four volumes. London: Smith, Elder and Co.
1868-9. Vol. I., pp. iv., 245; Vol. II., pp. iv., 251; Vol. III., pp.
iv., 250; Vol. IV., pp. iv., 235.
31. Herve Riel--_Cornhill Magazine_, March 1871, pp. 257-60. Reprinted in _Pacchiarotto, and other Poems_ (1876).
32. BALAUSTION"S ADVENTURE: Including a Transcript from Euripides. By Robert Browning. London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1871, pp. iv., 170.
33. PRINCE HOHENSTIEL-SCHw.a.n.gAU: SAVIOUR OF SOCIETY. By Robert Browning.
London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1871, pp. iv., 148.
34. FIFINE AT THE FAIR. By Robert Browning. London: Smith, Elder and Co.
1872, pp. xii., 171.
35. RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY: OR, TURF AND TOWERS. By Robert Browning. London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1873, pp. iv., 282.
36. ARISTOPHANES" APOLOGY: Including a Transcript from Euripides: Being the LAST ADVENTURE OF BALAUSTION. By Robert Browning. London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1875, pp. viii., 366.
37. THE INN ALb.u.m. By Robert Browning. London: Smith, Elder and Co.
1875, pp. iv., 211.
38. PACCHIAROTTO, and how he worked in Distemper: with other Poems. By Robert Browning. London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1876, pp. viii., 241.
Contents:--1. Prologue. 2. Of Pacchiarotto, and how he worked in Distemper. 3. At the "Mermaid." 4. House. 5. Shop. 6.
Pisgah-Sights (1, 2). 7. Fears and Scruples. 8. Natural Magic. 9. Magical Nature. 10. Bifurcation. 11. Numpholeptos.
12. Appearances. 13. St. Martin"s Summer. 14. Herve Riel. 15.
A Forgiveness. 16. Cenciaja. 17. Filippo Baldinucci on the Privilege of Burial (a Reminiscence of A.D. 1676). 18.
Epilogue.
39. THE AGAMEMNON OF aeSCHYLUS. Transcribed by Robert Browning. London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1877, pp. xi. (Preface, v.-xi.), 148.
40. LA SAISIAZ: THE TWO POETS OF CROISIC. By Robert Browning. London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1878, pp. viii., 201.
Contents:--1. Prologue, 2. La Saisiaz (pp. 5-82). The Two Poets of Croisic (pp. 87-191). Epilogue.
41. Song. ("The Blind Man to the Maiden said")--_The Hour will come_. By Wilhelmine von Hillern. Translated from the German by Clara Bell.
London, 1879, Vol. II., p. 174. Not reprinted.
42. "Oh, Love, Love": Translation from the _Hippolytus_ of Euripides.
(Eighteen lines, dated "Dec. 18, 1878"). Contributed to Prof. J.P.
Mahaffy"s _Euripides_ ("Cla.s.sical Writers." Macmillan, 1879). P. 116.
43. DRAMATIC IDYLS. By Robert Browning. London: Smith, Elder and Co.
1879, pp. vi., 143.
Contents:--1. Martin Relph. 2. Pheidippides. 3. Halbert and Hob. 4. Ivan Ivanovitch. 5. Tray. 6. Ned Bratts.
44. DRAMATIC IDYLS. Second Series. By Robert Browning. London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1880, pp. viii., 149.
Contents:--Prologue. 1. Echetlos. 2. Clive. 3. Muleykeh. 4.
Pietro of Abano. 5. Doctor ----. 6. Pan and Luna. Epilogue.
45. Ten New Lines to "Epilogue."--_Scribner"s Century Magazine_, November 1882, pp. 159-60. Lines written in an autograph alb.u.m, October 14, 1880. Printed in the _Century_ without Browning"s consent. Reprinted in the first issue of the Browning Society"s Papers, Part III., p. 48, but withdrawn from the second issue.
46. JOCOSERIA. By Robert Browning. London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1883, pp. viii., 143.
Contents:--1. Wanting is--What? 2. Donald. 3. Solomon and Balkis. 4. Cristina and Monaldeschi. 5. Mary Wollstonecraft and Fuseli. 6. Adam, Lilith, and Eve. 7. Ixion. 8. Jochanan Hakkadosh. 9. Never the Time and the Place. 10. Pambo.
47. Sonnet on Goldoni (dated "Venice, Nov. 27, 1883").--_Pall Mall Gazette_, December 8, 1883, p. 2. Written for the Alb.u.m of the Committee of the Goldoni Monument at Venice, and inserted on the first page.
Reprinted in the Browning Society"s Papers, Part V. p. 98.*
48. Paraphrase from Horace.--_Pall Mall Gazette_, December 13, 1883, p.
6. Four lines, written impromptu for Mr. Felix Moscheles. Reprinted in the Browning Society"s Papers, Part V., p. 99.*
49. Helen"s Tower: Sonnet (Dated "April 26, 1870").--_Pall Mall Gazette_, December 28, 1883, p. 2. Reprinted in Browning Society"s Papers, Part V., p. 97.* Written for the Earl of Dufferin, who built a tower in memory of his mother, Helen, Countess of Gifford, on a rock on his estate, at Clandeboye, Ireland, and originally printed in the later copies of a privately printed pamphlet called _Helen"s Tower_. Lord Tennyson"s lines, written on the same occasion, appeared a little previously in _The Leisure Hour_.
50. The Divine Order, and other Sermons and Addresses. By the late Thomas Jones. Edited by Brynmor Jones, LL.B. With INTRODUCTION by Robert Browning. London: W. Isbister. 1884. The introduction is on pp.
xi.-xiii.
51. Sonnet on Rawdon Brown. (Dated "November 28, 1883").--_Century Magazine_, "Bric-a-brac" column, February 1884. Reprinted in the Browning Society"s Papers, Part V., p. 132.* Written at Venice, on an apocryphal story relating to the late Mr Rawdon Brown, who "went to Venice for a short visit, with a definite object in view, and ended by staying forty years."
52. The Founder of the Feast: Sonnet. (Dated "April 5, 1884").--_The World_, April 16, 1884. Inscribed by Browning in the Alb.u.m presented to Mr Arthur Chappell, director of the St. James"s Hall Sat.u.r.day and Monday Popular Concerts. Reprinted in the Browning Society"s Papers, Part VII., p. 18.*
53. The Names: Sonnet on Shakespeare. (Dated "March 12, 1884").--_Shakespere Show Book_, May 29, 1884, p. 1. Reprinted in the Browning Society"s Papers, Part V., p. 105.*
54. FERISHTAH"S FANCIES. By Robert Browning. London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1884, pp. viii., 143. Each blank verse "Fancy" is followed by a short lyric.
Contents:--Prologue. Ferishtah"s Fancies: 1. The Eagle. 2.
The Melon-seller. 3. Shah Abbas. 4. The Family. 5. The Sun.
6. Mihrab Shah. 7. A Camel-Driver. 8. Two Camels 9. Cherries.
10. Plot-Culture, 11. A Pillar at Sebzevah. 12. A Bean Stripe: also Apple-Eating. Epilogue.
55. Why I am a Liberal: Sonnet.--_Why I am a Liberal_, edited by Andrew Reid. London: Ca.s.sell and Co. 1885. Reprinted in the Browning Society"s Papers, Part VII., p. 92.*