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 II, 1841-1846 includes Pippa Passes and many of the poems for which Browning is best known and loved: My Last Duchess, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Home-Thoughts from Abroad, and The Lost Reader.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |1 pages
The Poems
chapter 24|13 pages
The Pied Piper of Hamelin A Child’s Story
(Written for, and inscribed to, W. M. the Younger)
chapter 32|38 pages
A Soul’s Tragedy
Part First, being what was called the Poetry of Chiappino’s Life: and Part Second, its Prose.
chapter 42|14 pages
The Tomb at St Praxed’s
[The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church] Rome, 15—
chapter 55|2 pages
* 55 Translation of Quatrain
Attributed to Pietro of Abano (‘Studying my ciphers, with the compass’)
chapter 56|1 pages
* 56 Translation of Lines by Lorenzo de’ Medici
(‘Where’s Luigi Pulci, that one don’t the man see?’)
