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Robert Browning

Bibliography

 

PRIMARY WORKS

    • Sordello (London, 1840)

 

    • Bells and Pomegranates [in 8 parts: 1. Pippa passes (1841); 2. King Victor and King Charles (1842); 3. Dramatic lyrics (1842); 4. The return of the Druses, a tragedy (1843); 5. A blot in the 'scutcheon, a tragedy (1844); 6. Colombé's birthday, a play (1844); 7. Dramatic romances and lyrics (1845); 8. Luria; and A soul's tragedy (1846)] (London, 1841-46)

 

    • Poems: a new edition [2v., first collected edition] (London, 1849)

 

    • Dramatis personae (London, 1864)

 

 

    • The Ring and the Book [4v.] (London, 1868-69)

 

 

    • Dramatic Idyls [first series] (London, 1879)

 

 

    • Dramatic Idyls: second series (London, 1880)

 

 

    • The Poetical Works of Robert Browning [17v.] (London, 1888-89)

 

 

    • The Complete Works of Robert Browning; with variant readings and annotations; ed. by Roma A. King, Jr. [and others] [17v., work in progress] (Athens, 1962-2000)

 

    • The poems [of] Robert Browning, ed. by John Pettigrew, supplemented and completed by T.J. Collins [2v.] (Harmondsworth, 1981)

Letters

    • Letters from Robert Browning to various correspondents, ed. by T.J. Wise [2v.] (London, 1895)

 

    • The letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1845-1846 [2v.] (London, 1899)

 

    • Letters from Robert Browning to various correspondents, second series, ed. by T.J. Wise [2v.] (London, 1907-08)

 

    • The Brownings' correspondence, ed. by Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson [14v. to date, ongoing] (Winfield, Kan., 1984-98)

 

Essays

    • Critical comments on Algernon Charles Swinburne and D.G. Rossetti, with an anecdote relating to W.M. Thackeray (London, 1919)

 

    • Some records of Walter Savage Landor (London , 1919)

 

    • An opinion on the writings of Alfred Lord Tennyson: with a statement of his changed views regarding Percy Bysshe Shelley (London, 1920)

 

 

SECONDARY WORKS

    • Armstrong, Isobel. Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics, and Politics. Routledge, London, 1993.

 

    • Blackburn, Thomas. Robert Browning: A Study of His Poetry. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1967.

 

    • Campbell, Matthew. Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999.

 

    • Crowder, A.B. Poets and Critics: Their Means and Meanings. Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY, 1993.

 

    • Crowell, Norton B. The Convex Glass: The Mind of Robert Browning. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1968.

 

    • ---------------------. A Reader's Guide to Robert Browning. Albuquerque: U. of N.M. Press, 1972.

 

    • Drew, Philip, ed. Robert Browning: A Collection of Critical Essays. London; Boston: Methuen, Houghton Mifflin, 1965.

 

    • Erickson, Lee. Robert Browning: His Poetry and His Audiences. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1984.

 

    • Gibson, Mary Ellis, ed. Critical Essays on Robert Browning. G.K. Hall & Co., New York, 1992.

 

    • Hassett, Constance W. The Elusive Self in the Poetry of Robert Browning. Athens: Ohio UP, 1982.

 

    • Hawlin, Stefan. The Complete Critical Guide to Robert Browning. London, England: Routledge, 2002.

 

    • Howe, Elisabeth A. The Dramatic Monologue. Twayne Publishers, New York, 1996.

 

    • Kennedy, Richard S.; Hair, Donald S. The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning: A Literary Life. Columbia, MO: U of Missouri P, 2007.

 

    • King, Roma A. The Bow & the Lyre: The Art of Robert Browning. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 1957.

 

    • King, Roma A., Jr. The Focusing Artifice: The Poetry of Robert Browning. Athens: Ohio UP, 1968.

 

    • Korg, Jacob. The Poetry of Robert Browning. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971.

 

    • Lane, Christopher. Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England. New York, NY: Columbia UP, 2004.

 

    • Pollock, Mary Sanders. Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning: A Creative Partnership. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2003.

 

    • Roberts, Adam (ed.); Karlin, Daniel (introd.) Robert Browning. New York, NY: Oxford UP, 1997.

 

    • Ryals, Clyde de L. The Life of Robert Browning: A Critical Biography. Blackwell, Oxford, 1993.

 

    • Shaw, W. David. The Dialectical Temper: The Rhetorical Art of Robert Browning. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1968.

 

    • Sheldon, Walter L. Robert Browning.: Folcroft, PA: Folcroft Lib. Eds., 1977.

 

    • Ward, Maisie. Robert Browning and His World, I: The Private Face, 1812-1861. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967.

 

    • Williams, Raymond. The Country and the City. Hogarth Press, London, 1973.

 

    • Wood, Sarah. Robert Browning: A Literary Life. London, England: Palgrave, 2001.