The Brownings, Their Life and Art

"CASA GUIDI WINDOWS"--SOCIETY IN FLORENCE--MARCHESA D'OSSOLI--BROWNING'S POETIC CREED--VILLEGGIATURA IN SIENA--VENICE--BRILLIANT LIFE IN LONDON--PARIS AND MILSAND--BROWNING ON S...

"ASOLANDO"--LAST DAYS IN DEVERE GARDENS--LETTERS OF BROWNING AND TENNYSON--VENETIAN LINGERINGS AND FRIENDS--MRS. BRONSON'S CHOICE CIRCLE--BROWNING'S LETTERS TO MRS. BRONSON--ASO...

LONDON LIFE--AN INTERLUDE IN PARIS--"AURORA LEIGH"--FLORENTINE DAYS--"MEN AND WOMEN"--THE HAWTHORNES--"THE OLD YELLOW BOOK"--A SUMMER IN NORMANDY--THE ETERNAL CITY--THE STORYS A...

"Alas! our memories may retrace Each circumstance of time and place, Season and change come back again, And outward things unchanged remain; The rest we cannot re-instate; Ourse...

"... If a man could feel, Not one day in the artist's ecstasy, But every day,--feast, fast, or working-day, The spiritual significance burn through The hieroglyphic of material...

"And on her lover's arm she leant And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went To that new world which is the old. Across the hills, and far away, Be...

"How the world is made for each of us! How all we perceive and know in it Tends to some moment's product thus, When a soul declares itself--to wit, By its fruit, the thing it do...

"Think, when our one soul understands The great Word which makes all things new, When earth breaks up and heaven expands, How will the change strike me and you In the house not...

BROWNING VISITS RUSSIA--"PARACELSUS"--RECOGNITION OF WORDSWORTH AND LANDOR--"STRAFFORD"--FIRST VISIT TO ITALY--MRS. CARLYLE'S BAFFLED READING OF "SORDELLO"--LOFTY MOTIF OF THE P...

IN SCOTLAND WITH THE STORYS--BROWNING'S CONVERSATION--AN AMUSING INCIDENT--WITH MILSAND AT ST. AUBIN'S--"RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY"--ROBERT BARRETT BROWNING'S GIFT FOR ART--A...

THE MOST EXQUISITE ROMANCE OF MODERN LIFE--ANCESTRY AND YOUTH OF ROBERT BROWNING--LOVE OF MUSIC--FORMATIVE INFLUENCES--THE FASCINATION OF BYRON--A HOME "CRAMMED WITH BOOKS"--THE...

CHILDHOOD AND EARLY YOUTH OF ELIZABETH BARRETT--HOPE END--"SUMMER SNOW OF APPLE-BLOSSOMS"--HER BOWER OF WHITE ROSES--"LIVING WITH VISIONS"--THE MALVERN HILLS--HUGH STUART BOYD--...

"Asolando"--Last Days in DeVere Gardens--Letters of Browning and Tennyson--Venetian Lingerings and Friends--Mrs. Bronson's Choice Circle--Browning's Letters to Mrs. Bronson--Aso...

In Scotland with the Storys--Browning's Conversation--An Amusing Incident--With Milsand at St. Aubin's--"The Red Cotton Night-cap Country"--Robert Barrett Browning's Gift for Ar...

"Les Charmettes"--Venetian Days--Dr. Hiram Corson--The Browning Society--Oxford Honors Browning--Katherine DeKay Bronson-- Honors from Edinburgh--Visit to Professor Masson--Ital...

"Bells and Pomegranates"--Arnould and Domett--"A Blot in the 'Scutcheon"--Macready--Second Visit to Italy--Miss Barrett's Poetic Work--"Colombe's Birthday"--"Lady Geraldine's Co...

"Casa Guidi Windows"--Society in Florence--Marchesa d'Ossoli-- Browning's Poetic Creed--Villeggiatura in Siena--Venice-- Brilliant Life in London--Paris and Milsand--Browning on...

Browning Visits Russia--"Paracelsus"--Recognition of Wordsworth and Landor--"Strafford"--First Visit to Italy--Mrs. Carlyle's Baffled Reading of "Sordello"--Lofty Motif of the P...

Marriage and Italy--"In That New World"--The Haunts of Petrarca--The Magic Land--In Pisa--Vallombrosa--"Un Bel Giro"--Guercino's Angel--Casa Guidi--Birth of Robert Barrett Brown...

London Life--An Interlude in Paris--"Aurora Leigh"--Florentine Days--"Men and Women"--The Hawthornes--"The Old Yellow Book"--A Summer in Normandy--The Eternal City--The Storys a...

The Most Exquisite Romance of Modern Life--Ancestry and Youth of Robert Browning--Love of Music--Formative Influences--The Fascination of Byron--A Home "Crammed with Books"--The...

Childhood and Early Youth of Elizabeth Barrett--Hope End--"Summer Snow of Apple-Blossoms"--Her Bower of White Roses--"Living with Visions"--The Malvern Hills--Hugh Stuart Boyd--...

The Completed Cycle--Letters to Friends--Browning's Devotion to His Son--Warwick Crescent--"Dramatis Personæ"--London Life-- Death of the Poet's Father--Sarianna Browning--Oxfor...