Chapter 3

1833. The Monthly Mag., N. S., V. 7, pp. 254-262: Review of ‘Pauline’, by W. J. Fox.

1835. The Examiner, Sept. 6, pp. 563-565: on ‘Paracelsus’, by John Forster.

1835. Monthly Repository, Nov., pp. 716-727: Review of ‘Paracelsus’, by W. J. Fox.

1836. New Monthly Mag., March, Vol. 46, pp. 289-308: ‘Evidences of a New Genius for Dramatic Poetry.--No. 1.’ On ‘Paracelsus’, by John Forster.

1837. Edinburgh Rev., July, Vol. 66, pp. 132-151: ‘Strafford’.

1848. N. A. Rev., April, Vol. 66, pp. 357-400: B.’s ‘Plays and Poems’, by James Russell Lowell.

1849. Eclectic Rev., London, 4th S. V. 26, pp. 203-214: on 1. the ‘Poems’, 2 vols. 1849, and 2. ‘Sordello’, 1840. A sympathetic and excellent review.

1850. Massachusetts Quarterly Rev., No. XI. June, Art. IV. ‘Browning’s Poems’. 1. ‘Poems’, 2 vols., Boston, 1850. 2. ‘Christmas Eve’ and ‘Easter Day’, London, 1850.

1850. Littell’s Living Age, Vol. 25, pp. 403-409: on ‘Christmas Eve’ and ‘Easter Day’.

1857. The Christian Remembrancer, N. S., Vol. 39, pp. 361-390.

1861. North British Rev., May, pp. 350-374: on ‘The Poems and Plays of R. B.’, by F. H. Evans.

1863. Fraser’s Mag., Feb., pp. 240-256.

1863. The Eclectic Rev., No. 23, N. S., May, pp. 436-454.

1863. National Rev., Oct., Vol. 47, pp. 417-446. Poetical Works of R. B., 3 vols., 3d ed., by R. H. Hutton; republ. in Hutton’s ‘Literary Essays, 1871’.

1864. The Eclectic and Congregational Rev., July, pp. 61-72: on ‘Dramatis Personae’, by E. Paxton Hood.

1864. Edinburgh Rev., Oct., pp. 537-565: on ‘Poems’, 1863, and ‘Dramatis Personae’, 1864.

1864. National Rev., N. S., Nov., 1864; Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English Poetry; republ. in ‘Literary Studies’, by Walter Bagshot.

1865. Quarterly Rev., July, Vol. 118, pp. 77-105: on ‘Dramatis Personae’, 1864, and ‘Poems’, 3 vols., 1863.

1867. Contemporary Rev., Jan. and Feb., 1867, Vol. 4, pp. 1-15, 133-148. Thoughtful and able articles.

1867. Fraser’s Mag., Oct., pp. 518-530: ‘Sordello’, by Edward Dowden.

1868. Athenaeum, Dec. 26, pp. 875, 876: ‘The Ring and the Book’, Vol. 1. by Robert Buchanan; revised and publ. in his ‘Master Spirits’, 1873.

1868. Eclectic and Congregational Rev., Dec., Art. II. ‘Poetical Works’, 6 vols., 1868, by E. Paxton Hood. See under 1864.

1868. Essays on B.’s poetry, by J. T. Nettleship.

1869. Athenaeum, March 20, pp. 399, 400: on ‘The Ring and the Book’, Vols. 2, 3, and 4.

1869. Fortnightly Rev., March, Vol. 5, N. S., pp. 331-343: on ‘The Ring and the Book’, by John Morley. An able and generous article.

1869. Quarterly Rev., April, pp. 328-359: on Mod. Eng. Poets; a few pages are on B.’s poems and ‘The Ring and the Book’.

1869. Edinburgh Rev., July, Vol. 130, pp. 164-186: on ‘The Ring and the Book’.

1869. London Quarterly Rev., July, on B.’s Poetry-- all then published.

1869. N. Brit. Rev., Oct., pp. 97-128: B.’s Latest Poetry (‘The Ring and the Book’).

1871. Saint Paul’s Mag., Dec., 1870, and Jan., 1871, Vol. 7, pp. 257-276, 377-397: ‘Poems’ and ‘The Ring and the Book’, by E. J. Hasell.

1871. Athenaeum, Aug. 12, pp. 199, 200: on ‘Balaustion’s Adventure’.

1871. Contemporary Rev., Sept., pp. 284-296, on ‘Balaustion’s Adventure’, by Matthew Browne (pseudonym).

1871. The Times, Oct. 6: a long review of ‘Balaustion’s Adventure’.

1871. ‘Our Living Poets: an Essay in Criticism’. By H. Buxton Forman. 4th chap. on B., pp. 103-152.

1871. Fortnightly Rev., Oct., Vol. 10, N. S., pp. 478-490: on ‘Balaustion’s Adventure’, by Sidney Colvin.

1871. The Dark Blue Mag., Oct. and Nov., Vol. 2, pp. 171-184, 305-319: ‘Browning as a Preacher’, by Miss E. Dickinson West. An admirable essay.

1872. Edinburgh Rev., Jan., Vol. 135, pp. 221-249: on ‘Balaustion’s Adventure’.

1872. Academy, Jan. 15: on ‘Hohenstiel-Schwangau’.

1872. Academy, July 1: on ‘Fifine at the Fair’, by F. Wedmore.

1873. Athenaeum, May 10: on ‘Red Cotton Night-Cap Country’.

1873. Academy, June 2: on ‘Red Cotton Night-Cap Country’, by G. A. Simcox.

1873. ‘Master Spirits’, by Robert Buchanan; contains, pp. 89-109, a revised reprint of the Athenaeum reviews of ‘The Ring and the Book’, Dec., 1869, and March, 1870.

1875. Academy, April 17: on ‘Aristophanes’ Apology’, by J. A. Symonds.

1875. Athenaeum, April 17, pp. 513, 514: on ‘Aristophanes’ Apology’.

1875. Athenaeum, Nov. 27, pp. 701, 702: on ‘The Inn Album’.

1876. Academy, July 29: on ‘Pacchiarotto’, by Edward Dowden.

1876. Macmillan’s Mag., Feb., Vol. 33, pp. 347-354: on ‘Inn Album’, by A. C. Bradley.

1876. ‘Victorian Poets. By Edmund Clarence Stedman’. Boston: 1876. Chap. IX., pp. 292-341, devoted to Browning.

1877. Academy, Nov. 3: on ‘The Agamemnon of Aeschylus’, by J. A. Symonds.

1878. Church Quarterly Rev., Oct., pp. 65-92: on B.’s Poems, by the Hon. and Rev. Arthur Lyttleton. An article to be read by all students of Browning.

1878. Academy, June 1: on ‘La Saisiaz’, and ‘The Two Poets of Croisic’, by G. A. Simcox.

1878. Athenaeum, May 25, pp. 661-664: on ‘La Saisiaz’, by W. Theodore Watts.

1879. ‘Studies in Literature, 1789-1877. By Edward Dowden, LL.D.’ London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., pp. 191-239: ‘Mr. Tennyson and Mr. Browning. A comparative study’. Ranks with the very best of Browning criticisms.

1879. Athenaeum, May 10: on ‘Dramatic Idyls’, I., by Walter Theodore Watts.

1879. Academy, May 10: on ‘Dramatic Idyls’, I., by F. Wedmore.

1880. Athenaeum, July 10, pp. 39-41: on ‘Dramatic Idyls’, 2d S., by W. Th. Watts.

1881. Gentleman’s Mag., Dec., pp. 682-695: on ‘The Ring and the Book’, by James Thomson.

1881. Scribner’s Century Mag., Dec. 1, pp. 189-200: on ‘The Early Writings of R. B.’, by E. W. Gosse.

1881. The Cambridge Review, Dec. 7, Vol. 3, pp. 146, 147: a review of ‘Rabbi ben Ezra’ and ‘Abt Vogler’, by A. W.

Some of the most valuable criticism of Browning’s Poetry has been produced and published by The Browning Society of London, founded in 1881 by Dr. F. J. Furnivall, and still in active operation. Dr. Furnivall’s ‘Bibliography of Robert Browning’, occupying Part I. of ‘The Browning Society’s Papers’, and continued in Part II., is a storehouse of valuable information, of all kinds, pertaining to Browning’s Poetry, and to Browning the man. Every Browning student should possess a copy of it. The following papers, among others, have been published by the Society:--

Introductory Address to the Browning Society. By the Rev. J. Kirkman, M.A., Queen’s Coll., Cambridge, Oct. 28, 1881.

On ‘Pietro of Abano’ and the leading ideas of ‘Dramatic Idyls’, second series, 1880. By the Rev. J. Sharpe, M.A. Read Nov. 25, 1881.

On Browning’s ‘Fifine at the Fair’. By J. T. Nettleship, Esq. Read Feb. 24, 1882.

Notes on the Genius of Robert Browning. By James Thomson. Read Jan. 27, 1882.

Browning’s Philosophy. By John Bury, Trin. Coll., Dublin. Read April 28, 1882.

On ‘Bishop Blougram’s Apology’. By the Rev. Prof. E. Johnson, M.A. Read May 26, 1882.

The Idea of Personality, as embodied in Robert Browning’s Poetry. By Prof. Hiram Corson, LL.D., Cornell University. Read June 23, 1882. (Contained in this volume.)

The Religious Teaching of Browning. By Dorothea Beale. Read Oct. 27, 1882.

An Account of Abbe Vogler. (From Fetis & Nisard.) By Miss Eleanor Marx.

Conscience and Art in Browning. By the Rev. Prof. E. Johnson, M.A.

Browning’s Intuition, specially in regard of Music and the Plastic Arts. By J. T. Nettleship. Read Feb. 23, 1883.

On some Points in Browning’s View of Life. By the Rev. Prof. B. F. Westcott, D.D. Read before the Cambridge Browning Soc., Nov., 1882.

One aspect of Browning’s Villains. By Miss E. D. West. Read April 27, 1883.

Browning’s Poems on God and Immortality as bearing on life here. By William F. Revell. Read March 30, 1883.

James Lee’s Wife. By Rev. J. H. Bulkeley. Read May 25, 1883.

Abt Vogler. By Mrs. Turnbull. Read June 22, 1883.

On some prominent points of Browning’s teaching. By W. A. Raleigh, Esq., of King’s College, Cambridge. Read Feb. 22, 1884.

‘Caliban upon Setebos’, with some notes on Browning’s subtlety and humor. By J. Cotter Morison, Esq. Read April 25, 1884.

In a Balcony. By Mrs. Turnbull. Read July 4, 1884.

On ‘Mr. Sludge the Medium’. By Edwin Johnson, M.A. Read March 27, 1885.

Browning as a Scientific Poet. By Edward Berdoe, M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Ed.). Read April 24, 1885.

On the development of Browning’s genius in his capacity as Poet or Maker. By J. T. Nettleship, Esq. Read Oct. 30, 1885.

On ‘Aristophanes’ Apology’. By John B. Bury, B.A., Trin. Coll., Dublin. Read Jan. 29, 1886.

Andrea Del Sarto. By Albert Fleming. Read Feb. 26, 1886.

The reasonable rhythm of some of Browning’s Poems. By the Rev. H. J. Bulkeley, M.A. Read May 28, 1886.

The following works should be mentioned:--

Stories from Robert Browning. By Frederic May Holland. With an Introduction by Mrs. Sutherland Orr. London: 1882.

Strafford: a Tragedy. By Robert Browning. With notes and preface by Emily H. Hickey {First Hon. Sec. of the Browning Society}. And an Introduction by Samuel R. Gardiner, LL.D., Professor of Modern History, King’s College, London. London: 1884.

A Handbook to the works of Robert Browning. By Mrs. Sutherland Orr. London: 1885. A good reference book.

Poets and Problems. By George Willis Cooke. Boston: 1886. pp. 269-388 devoted to Browning.

Essays on Poetry and Poets. By the Hon. Roden Noel. London: 1886. pp. 256-282 devoted to Browning.

Select Poems of Robert Browning. By W. J. Rolfe. Boston.

Important works published since the first edition of this book:--

Sordello’s Story retold in prose. By Annie Wall. Boston and New York: 1886.

Browning’s Women. By Mary E. Burt. With an introduction by Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D.D., LL.D. Chicago: 1887.

Studies in the Poetry of Robert Browning. By James Fotheringham. London: 1887.

An Introduction to the Poetry of Robert Browning. By William John Alexander, Ph.D. Boston: 1889.

Sordello: an outline analysis of Mr. Browning’s poem. By Jeanie Morison. Edinburgh and London: 1889.

Robert Browning Personalia. By Edmund Gosse. Boston and New York: 1890.

Robert Browning: Essays and Thoughts. By John T. Nettleship. New York: 1890.

Browning’s Message to his Time: his Religion, Philosophy, and Science. By Edward Berdoe. London: 1890.

A Guide-Book to the poetic and dramatic works of Robert Browning. By George Willis Cooke. Boston: 1891.

Life and Letters of Robert Browning. By Mrs. Sutherland Orr. Boston: 1891.

Browning as a philosophical and religious teacher. By Henry Jones, M.A. New York: 1891.

Some additional papers of the Browning Society, published since the first edition of this book:--

“A Death in the Desert”. By Mrs. M. G. Glazebrook. Read February 25, 1887.

Some Notes on Browning’s poems referring to music. By Helen J. Ormerod. Read May 27, 1887.

“Saul”. By Anna M. Stoddart. Read May 25, 1888.

Andrea del Sarto and Abt Vogler. By Helen J. Ormerod. Read November 30, 1888.

La Saisiaz. By Rev. W. Robertson. Read January 25, 1889.

On the difficulties and obscurities encountered in a study of Browning’s poems. By James Bertram Oldham, B.A. Read February 22, 1889.

Taurello Salinguerra: historical details illustrative of Browning’s Sordello. Muratori and Browning compared. By W. M. Rossetti. Read November 29, 1889.

The value of Browning’s work. By William F. Revell. Read May 30, 1890.

The student will find much other valuable material in the Browning Society papers.

For Articles in Periodical Literature, the student should consult Poole’s Indexes.

End of Project Gutenberg’s Introduction to Robert Browning, by Hiram Corson