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Poems / by Robert Browning. In two volumes.
LIBRA Rare PR4200 .E83 1886 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (former owner)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : portrait ; 18 cm
- Edition:
- Author's Edition.
- Distribution:
- Cambridge : The Riverside Press.
- Other Title:
- Poems in two volumes
- Poems and dramas
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886.
- Contents:
- v. 1. Paracelsus
- Pippa passes
- King Victor and King Charles
- Colombe's birthday. v. 2. A blot in the 'scutcheon
- The return of the Druses
- Luria
- A soul's tragedy
- Dramatic romances and lyrics: Cavalier Tunes; My Last Duchess; Count Gismond; Incident of the French Camp; Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister; In a Gondola; Artemis Prologuiizes; Waring; Rudel to the Lady of Tripoli; Christina; Madhouse Cell; Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadir
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin; "How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix"
- Pictor Ignotus
- The Itian in England; The Englishman in Italy; The Lost Leader; The Lost Mistress; Home thoughts from abroad; Home-thoughts from the sea; The Bishop orders his tomb at St. Parxed's Church; Garden Fancies; The Laboratory; The Confessional; The Flight of the Duchess; Earth's immortalities; Song; The Boy and the Angel; Meeting at Night; Parting at Morning; Saul; Time's revenges; The Glove.
- Notes:
- Spines have "Poems and Dramas" but title pages state "Poems in Two Volumes".
- Frontispiece portrait in volume 1 has tissue guard.
- Volume 1 has 13 pages of publisher's advertisements at end.
- Red brown cloth covered boards with gold emblem on front cover with "Browning" printed in center.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Stuart A. Curran.
- Kislak Curran copy contains two notices of meetings of the Browning Society laid in.
- Kislak Curran copy has illustrated marker with "Good and True Thoughts from Robert Browning" printed on front laid in.
- Kislak Curran copy volume 1 has autograph of Sarah A. Forbes.
- OCLC:
- 43477120
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