ABSTRACT

The Poems of Browning is the first collected edition to be based on the earliest printed texts, and to present these texts in order of their composition.Together, volumes I and II provide an authoritative and accessible tribute to this great poet.

Volume I, 1826-1840 traces Browning's career up to the writing of Sordello. It includes his only surviving juvenilia: The Dance of Death and The First-Borm of Egypt; Pauline, his first anonymous publication, and Paracelsus, the poem which made his literary reputation.

part |2 pages

POEMS

chapter 1|7 pages

The Dance of Death

chapter 2|4 pages

The First-Born of Egypt

chapter 3|76 pages

Pauline; A Fragment of a Confession

chapter 4|1 pages

Lines to a Lady ('Oh, faithless fair!')

chapter 6|4 pages

Cockney Anthology—A Specimen

chapter 7|1 pages

Sonnet

chapter 8|228 pages

Paracelsus

chapter 9|2 pages

The King

chapter 10|4 pages

Porphyria [Porphyria's Lover]

chapter 12|1 pages

Lines

chapter 14|3 pages

A Forest Thought

chapter 15|5 pages

Cavalier Tunes

chapter 16|420 pages

Sordello

chapter 17|4 pages

Rudel and the Lady of Tripoli

chapter 18|5 pages

Cristina