item: #1 of 19 id: 12817 author: Dowden, Edward title: Robert Browning date: None words: 117357 flesch: 65 summary: In body and soul Mrs Browning felt strong yearnings for the calm of Casa Guidi. From that date until the death of Mrs Browning her Letters, edited by Mr Kenyon, has been my chief source. keywords: age; barrett browning; beauty; book; browning; character; close; day; days; death; divine; earth; england; english; evil; eyes; face; fact; faith; father; feeling; florence; footnote; form; forth; friend; genius; god; good; half; hand; heart; home; house; human; husband; imagination; italian; italy; joy; kind; knowledge; left; letter; life; life browning; light; like; london; long; love; man; means; men; mind; miss; moment; moral; mrs browning; nature; new; orr; paracelsus; paris; passion; place; play; poem; poet; poetry; power; present; robert browning; rome; rossetti; self; sense; service; shelley; sister; son; sordello; soul; spirit; story; subject; summer; tennyson; things; thought; time; truth; venice; verse; voice; volume; way; wife; woman; words; work; world; writer; years; young cache: 12817.txt plain text: 12817.txt item: #2 of 19 id: 13088 author: Chapman, John Jay title: Emerson and Other Essays date: None words: 49036 flesch: 72 summary: Great men are not always like wax which their age imprints. It is noticeable, too, that the early and imitative work of great men generally belongs to a particular school to which their maturity bears a logical relation. keywords: art; books; browning; character; country; day; emerson; end; england; english; form; good; great; hand; individual; know; language; law; life; light; literature; love; man; men; mind; moral; nature; new; people; place; poems; poetry; power; romeo; sense; shakespeare; society; soul; speech; spirit; stevenson; style; things; thought; time; truth; verse; whitman; words; work; world; years cache: 13088.txt plain text: 13088.txt item: #3 of 19 id: 13342 author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) title: Robert Browning date: None words: 61295 flesch: 66 summary: That statement must, of course, be modified and even contradicted if it means that they never differed; that Mr. Browning never thought an _Act of Parliament_ good when Mrs. Browning thought it bad; that Mr. Browning never thought bread stale when Mrs. Browning thought it new. In the case of Mrs. Browning it is somewhat more difficult to understand. keywords: art; barrett; book; browning; case; characteristic; course; day; deal; death; example; fact; father; form; god; good; home; human; idea; intellectual; italy; kind; life; love; man; manner; matter; men; mind; mrs; nature; people; play; poem; poetry; poets; point; question; right; ring; robert browning; sense; sludge; spirit; story; things; thought; time; truth; way; wife; words; work; world; years cache: 13342.txt plain text: 13342.txt item: #4 of 19 id: 13561 author: Jones, Henry, Sir title: Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher date: None words: 92370 flesch: 69 summary: His reconciliation of God and man was incomplete: God seemed to him to have manifested Himself _to_ man but not _in_ man. The process towards truth by man is the process of truth _in_ man; the movement of knowledge towards reality is the movement of reality into knowledge. keywords: "[a; absolute; browning; consciousness; evil; fact; faith; footnote; god; good; goodness; heart; human; ideal; individual; intellect; knowledge; law; life; love; man; means; men; mind; morality; nature; philosophy; place; poet; poetry; power; principle; process; reality; reason; religion; right; science; self; sense; spirit; theory; things; thought; time; truth; unity; view; way; world cache: 13561.txt plain text: 13561.txt item: #5 of 19 id: 14316 author: Brooke, Stopford Augustus title: The Poetry Of Robert Browning date: None words: 127976 flesch: 74 summary: Another motive is, that rather than lose love men or women will often sacrifice their conscience, their reason, or their liberty. All the dreams of his youth centre in himself; Nature becomes the reflection of himself; all histories of great men he represents as in himself; finally, he becomes to himself Apollo, the incarnation of poetry. keywords: action; art; artist; balaustion; beauty; book; browning; character; close; colour; day; death; description; desire; earth; elements; end; english; face; feeling; form; genius; god; good; half; hand; heart; high; humanity; imagination; infinite; italy; joy; king; knowledge; life; light; love; man; mankind; matter; men; mind; moment; nature; paracelsus; passion; place; play; pleasure; poem; poetic; poetry; poets; power; scenery; sea; self; song; sordello; soul; spirit; subject; tennyson; theory; things; thought; time; touch; truth; verse; way; woman; work; world; years; youth cache: 14316.txt plain text: 14316.txt item: #6 of 19 id: 14476 author: Sharp, William title: Life of Robert Browning date: None words: 73350 flesch: 75 summary: and interested in Spiritualism; summer in London, 162; autumn at Casa Guidi, 162; winter 1853-4 in Rome, 1856 Aurora Leigh, death of Kenyon, legacies, 170; 1857, death of Mr. Barrett, 170; 1858, delicacy of Mrs. Browning, 171; July 1858, Brownings travel to Normandy; Two Poems by Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, 1854, 173; 1860, Poems before Congress, and death of Arabella Barrett, 160; North and South, 174; return to Casa Guidi, and death on 28th June 1861, 175, 206 Browning, Reuben, 18, 19, 20 Browning, Robert: born in London in 1812, 11, 13, 19; his literary and artistic antecedents and contemporaries, 12-14; his parentage and ancestry, 15, 17-19; concerning traces of Semitic origin, 15-19; his sisters, 20; his father, 18; his mother, 20, 23; his uncle, Reuben Browning, 20; the Camberwell home, 23; his childhood, 22; early poems, 25; translation of the odes of Horace, 26; goes to school at Peckham, 27; his holiday afternoons, 27; Death of Harold, 29; criticisms of Miss Flower and Mr. Fox, 30; he reads Shelley's and Keats's poems, 30, 31; he has a tutor, 33; attends Gower Street University College, 34; he decides to be a poet, 35; writes Pauline, 1832, 36; it is published in 1833, 39; Pauline, 39-49; criticisms thereon, 49; Rossetti and Pauline, studies at British Museum, 52, 53; travels in 1833 to Russia, 57; to Italy, 58; return to Camberwell, 1834, 58, and begins Paracelsus, sonnet signed Z, 1834, 60; love for Venice, 62; Paracelsus, 59, 62; criticisms thereon, 71, 73; he meets Macready, 73; Narses, 76; he meets Talfourd, Wordsworth, Landor, 77; Strafford, 79; his dramas, 85; his love of the country, 95; Pippa Passes, 96, 98; Sordello, 105; origin of The Ring and the Book, 1865; The Ring and the Book, 113-119; The Inn Album, 127; Men and Women, 128; proposed Transcripts from Life, 129; Flower o' the Vine, 131; correspondence between him and Miss Barrett, 136; meeting in 1846, 138; engagement, 140; marriage, 12th September 1846, 145; sojourn in Pisa, 146; they go to Florence, 148; to Ancona, _via_ Ravenna, 150; The Guardian Angel, 150; Casa Guidi, 152; birth of son, March 9th, 1849, 157; they go to Vallombrosa and Bagni di Lucca for the autumn, and winter at Casa Guidi, 156; spring of 1850 in Rome, 159; Two in the Campagna, 156; 1851, they visit England; description of Browning, 161; winter 1851-2 in Paris with Robert Browning, senior, 162; Browning writes Prefatory Essay to Moxon's edition of Shelley's Letters, 163; midsummer, Baths of Lucca, 165; in Florence, 166; In a Balcony, 166; winter in Rome, 1853-4, 166; the work written there, 167; Ben Karshook's Wisdom, 167; Men and Women published, 168; Kenyon's death, and legacies to the Brownings, 170; poems written between 1855-64, 169; July 1858, Brownings go to Normandy, 173; Legend of Pornic, Gold Hair, 173; autumn of 1859 in Sienna; winter 1860-61 in Rome, 173; death of Mrs. Browning, June 1861, 175; Prospice, 176; 1866, Browning loses his father; Miss Sarianna resides with Browning, 177; his ways of life, 177; first collected edition of his works, 1868, 178; first part of The Ring and the Book published, 178; Hervé Riel, 179; Tauchnitz edition, 1872, 179; Bishop Blougram, 179; Selections, 180; La Saisiaz, 1877, 180; The Two Poets of Croisic, 181; later works, 182; Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Red Cotton Nightcap Country, 182, 183; Fifine at the Fair, 183, 184, 185-7; Jocoseria, 187; 1881, Browning Society established, 188; his latter years, 189; revisits Asolo, 191; Palazzo Rezzonico, 192; religious belief, 193; death, December 12th, 1889, 195, 196; funeral, 197; to be estimated by a new definition, 200; as poet, rather than as thinker, 200; his love of life, 201; his, like Bossuet's, a Hebrew genius fecundated by Christianity, 201; his artistic relations to Death and Sex, 201-3; where, in standpoint, he differs from Tennyson, 203; as to quality of his _mass_ of work, 204; intellectually exploited, 204; his difficulties, and their attraction to many, 205; his attitude to the future, influence, and significance, 205-211; summary of his life-work, 200-212. keywords: 8vo; age; art; author; barrett; barrett browning; beauty; book; browning; day; death; edition; eyes; father; flower; friend; genius; god; good; heart; home; introduction; john; letters; life; like; lines; literary; literature; little; london; love; magazine; man; meeting; men; miss; mrs; music; n.s; nature; new; night; note; papers; paracelsus; passes; pauline; pippa; poems; poet; poetry; portrait; read; review; ring; robert browning; sense; series; shelley; society; song; sordello; soul; spirit; story; strafford; thought; time; verse; vol; volume; way; wife; william; women; words; work; world; years cache: 14476.txt plain text: 14476.txt item: #7 of 19 id: 14498 author: Orr, Sutherland, Mrs. title: A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) date: None words: 132469 flesch: 78 summary: In social life, for instance, it would do away with all those acts of faith, those instinctive judgments and feelings, which are the essence _of_ life. Man_ becomes the summit of creation; the sole successor to the vacant throne of God. keywords: 8vo; aristophanes; art; balaustion; belief; book; browning; case; character; church; count; course; day; death; earth; edition; euripides; existence; experience; face; fact; fancy; feeling; footnote; form; friend; god; good; half; hand; heart; home; human; husband; idea; iii; king; knowledge; law; life; london; love; lyrics; man; manner; means; men; mind; moment; nature; new; night; place; poems; poet; point; pompilia; power; present; real; robert; romances; second; self; sense; son; sordello; soul; spirit; story; strength; subject; thought; time; tragedy; truth; vii; vol; way; wife; women; words; work; world; xiv; xvi; years cache: 14498.txt plain text: 14498.txt item: #8 of 19 id: 14618 author: Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold) title: Robert Browning date: None words: 79297 flesch: 66 summary: As Wordsworth saw Joy everywhere, and Shelley Love, so Browning saw Power. How little Browning cared for history except as a quarry for psychical problems, how little concern he had at bottom with the changing drama of national life, is clear from the directions in which he now sought his good. keywords: art; beauty; book; browning; character; day; death; dramatic; early; earth; english; eye; faith; florence; flower; footnote; form; forth; friend; genius; glory; god; good; greek; half; hand; heart; home; human; humanity; imagination; intellect; interest; italian; italy; joy; kind; letters; life; light; love; lyrics; man; men; mind; miss; moment; mrs browning; music; nature; paracelsus; passion; pippa; place; play; poem; poetic; poetry; poets; power; saw; self; sense; shelley; song; sordello; soul; spirit; story; things; thought; time; tragedy; truth; vision; way; wife; women; work; world; years cache: 14618.txt plain text: 14618.txt item: #9 of 19 id: 16182 author: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett title: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 date: None words: 205054 flesch: 80 summary: For him to say such a word--he who knows--or ought to know!--And now let us agree and admire the bowing of the old ministrel over Bedd Gelert's unfilled grave-- The _long_ beard _fell_ of monumental brevity--and _hic jacet_ keywords: answer; beginning; believe; book; bring; care; case; come; course; day; days; dearest; doubt; e.b.b; evening; eyes; fact; fancy; fear; feeling; friday; friend; god; going; good; greek; half; hand; having; head; heart; help; hope; hour; house; kenyon; kind; kindness; know; leave; letter; life; like; little; look; love; luria; man; mark; matter; means; mind; miss; moment; monday; morning; morrow; need; new; note; people; place; poems; poetry; post; praise; promise; r.b; read; real; reason; remember; right; room; round; saturday; seeing; sense; set; sort; soul; speak; subject; talk; things; think; thinking; thought; thursday; time; trust; truth; tuesday; turn; want; way; wednesday; week; wish; wonder; words; work; world; writing; wrong; years; yesterday cache: 16182.txt plain text: 16182.txt item: #10 of 19 id: 17608 author: Symons, Arthur title: An Introduction to the Study of Browning date: None words: 75367 flesch: 74 summary: [_He stabs himself; as he falls, supported by_ KHALIL _and_ LOYS, _the Venetians enter: the_ ADMIRAL _advances_. [4] It has been, as a rule, strangely overlooked, though it is a matter of the first moment, that Browning's poems are in the most precise sense _works of art_, and this in a very high degree, positive and relative, if we understand by a work of art a poem which attains its end and fulfils its purpose completely, and which has a worthy end and plain purpose to attain. keywords: action; art; book; browning; character; day; death; drama; earth; end; face; footnote; form; god; good; great; guido; heart; hope; human; life; lines; london; love; lyrics; man; men; moment; monologue; music; nature; new; night; page; paracelsus; passion; picture; piece; place; play; poem; poet; poetical; poetry; point; pompilia; robert browning; second; sense; society; song; sordello; soul; speech; story; style; thought; time; touch; tragedy; truth; verse; vol; way; wife; woman; word; work; years cache: 17608.txt plain text: 17608.txt item: #11 of 19 id: 21247 author: Mayne, Ethel Colburn title: Browning's Heroines date: None words: 72262 flesch: 86 summary: Supposing he set _this_ old woman to teach her, as the other had failed? This _is_ love--but how different from the love of the smilings and the whisperings, the He is your lover! keywords: balaustion; beauty; browning; caponsacchi; child; comes; day; dead; death; duke; earth; end; euripides; eyes; face; feel; forth; girl; god; good; guido; hand; heart; house; husband; joy; lady; life; look; love; man; men; moment; morning; night; pippa; poet; pompilia; self; sense; song; soul; thing; thought; time; truth; turn; way; wife; woman; words; world; years cache: 21247.txt plain text: 21247.txt item: #12 of 19 id: 29365 author: Clarke, Helen Archibald title: Browning's England: A Study in English Influences in Browning date: None words: 100407 flesch: 86 summary: Could not I have excogitated this Without believing such men really were? Let such men rest Content with what they judged the best. keywords: avison; beauty; book; browning; carlisle; charles; church; course; day; death; die; doubt; earl; earth; england; english; eyes; face; fact; faith; father; fear; friend; god; good; half; hampden; hand; head; heart; heaven; help; history; hope; house; human; inn; jonson; king; lady; leave; life; look; lord; love; man; matter; means; men; mertoun; mildred; mind; music; nature; need; new; page; parliament; past; people; place; play; poem; poet; power; praise; pym; queen; right; round; sake; says; scene; sense; shakespeare; sir; soul; stand; strafford; sun; talk; thing; thought; time; tis; tresham; truth; turn; vane; way; wentworth; words; work; world; years; young cache: 29365.txt plain text: 29365.txt item: #13 of 19 id: 30671 author: Whiting, Lilian title: The Brownings, Their Life and Art date: None words: 98546 flesch: 66 summary: Poetry, said Mrs. Browning, is its own exceeding great reward. The world of books is still the world, wrote Mrs. Browning in Aurora Leigh, and this was the world of Robert Browning's early life. keywords: art; barrett browning; beauty; book; bronson; browning; casa; child; corson; day; days; dear; death; elizabeth; elizabeth browning; england; english; evening; father; florence; friend; friendship; genius; god; good; greek; guidi; heart; hills; home; house; husband; interest; italian; italy; kenyon; lady; landor; later; left; letter; life; lines; little; london; love; man; miss; miss browning; morning; mrs; music; nature; new; night; palazzo; paracelsus; paris; penini; place; poem; poet; poetry; power; professor; read; reading; return; robert browning; rome; room; sister; son; soul; spirit; story; summer; tennyson; thought; time; venice; visit; way; wife; winter; work; world; writing; years cache: 30671.txt plain text: 30671.txt item: #14 of 19 id: 35989 author: Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas) title: Browning and the Dramatic Monologue date: None words: 91111 flesch: 74 summary: The Biglow Papers, by Lowell, though in the form of letters, are really dramatic monologues. Though many monologues are lyric in spirit, they are more frequently dramatic. keywords: action; art; attention; attitude; audience; body; browning; change; character; come; day; dialect; expression; eye; face; fact; feeling; form; god; good; hand; heart; human; imagination; interpretation; life; line; listener; literature; look; love; lyric; man; metre; mind; monologue; movement; nature; new; person; place; play; poem; poetry; point; reader; rendering; shall; situation; soul; speaker; speech; spirit; story; study; think; thought; thy; time; truth; view; voice; way; words; work; world cache: 35989.txt plain text: 35989.txt item: #15 of 19 id: 38874 author: Clarke, Helen Archibald title: Browning and His Century date: None words: 80355 flesch: 55 summary: There is in the attitude of Oceanus a magnificent acceptance of this ruthless course of nature reminding one of that taken by such men as Huxley and Clifford in the face of their own scientific discoveries, but one is immediately struck by the absence of love in the idea. While the genetic view of nature, as the phraseology of to-day goes, had been anticipated in writers on cosmology like Leibnitz and Laplace, in geology by such men as Hutton and Lyall, and had entered into the domain of embryology through the researches of Von Baer, and while Spencer had already formulated a philosophy of evolution, Darwin went out into the open and studied the actual facts in the domain of living beings. keywords: action; aristophanes; art; attitude; balaustion; beauty; browning; century; consciousness; criticism; day; development; divine; earth; end; england; english; euripides; evil; evolution; fact; feeling; form; god; good; greek; human; ideal; knowledge; life; light; love; man; matter; means; men; mind; nature; new; nineteenth; paracelsus; people; place; play; poem; poet; poetry; point; power; science; social; soul; spirit; subject; sympathy; things; thought; time; truth; view; way; work; world; years cache: 38874.txt plain text: 38874.txt item: #16 of 19 id: 40440 author: None title: A Day with Browning date: None words: 6475 flesch: 84 summary: Delayed it may be for more lives yet, Through worlds I shall traverse, not a few: [Illustration: A Day with Browning] The Palazzo Giustiniani Recanati was a place of historical association and fifteenth-century traditions.... keywords: browning; day; death; god; heart; leave; life; love; man; sea; soul; thou cache: 40440.txt plain text: 40440.txt item: #17 of 19 id: 41491 author: Naish, Ethel M. title: Browning and Dogma Seven Lectures on Browning's Attitude Towards Dogmatic Religion date: None words: 56200 flesch: 65 summary: To _know_ is not to _do_: a distinction akin to that drawn in the Epistle of James[64] between intellectual credence and living faith--between belief, the result of the acceptance of certain facts making inevitable appeal to the intellect, and faith inspiring life, the ultimate results of which are manifest in action. To the man, therefore, whose intellect questions, analyses, dissects truths as they present themselves to him, a proportionately stronger faith is a necessity: the doubts so arising being, the most consummate of contrivances to teach men faith. keywords: belief; bishop; browning; caliban; character; christian; christmas; cleon; creed; day; death; earth; easter; eve; existence; faith; future; god; good; greek; human; individual; intellectual; life; love; man; nature; poem; position; power; present; question; section; soliloquist; soul; speaker; spiritual; things; time; truth; work; world cache: 41491.txt plain text: 41491.txt item: #18 of 19 id: 655 author: Browning, Robert title: Life and Letters of Robert Browning date: None words: 116604 flesch: 67 summary: LIFE AND LETTERS OF ROBERT BROWNING by Mrs. Sutherland Orr Second Edition Preface Such letters of Mr. Browning's as appear, whole or in part, in the present volume have been in most cases given to me by the persons to whom they were addressed, or copied by Miss Browning from the originals under her care; but I owe to the daughter of the Rev. W. J. Fox--Mrs. Bridell Fox--those written to her father and to Miss Flower; the two interesting extracts from her father's correspondence with herself and Mr. Browning's note to Mr. Robertson. Chapter 6 1835-1838 Removal to Hatcham; some Particulars--Renewed Intercourse with the second Family of Robert Browning's Grandfather--Reuben Browning--William Shergold Browning--Visitors at Hatcham--Thomas Carlyle--Social Life--New Friends and Acquaintance--Introduction to Macready--New Year's Eve at Elm Place--Introduction to John Forster--Miss Fanny Haworth--Miss Martineau--Serjeant Talfourd--The 'Ion' Supper--'Strafford'--Relations with Macready--Performance of 'Strafford'--Letters concerning it from Mr. Browning and Miss Flower--Personal Glimpses of Robert Browning--Rival Forms of Dramatic Inspiration--Relation of 'Strafford' to 'Sordello'--Mr. keywords: author; barrett; book; browning; case; chapter; character; course; day; days; dear; death; england; experience; fact; family; father; feeling; florence; fox; friend; good; great; heart; home; house; human; husband; interest; italy; kind; lady; left; letter; life; like; little; london; love; macready; man; men; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; nature; new; occasion; paris; period; place; play; poem; poet; poetry; power; present; read; return; robert browning; rome; room; second; sense; shelley; sister; society; son; story; subject; summer; things; thought; time; venice; visit; way; wife; winter; words; work; years; young cache: 655.txt plain text: 655.txt item: #19 of 19 id: 9067 author: Phelps, William Lyon title: Robert Browning: How to Know Him date: None words: 84512 flesch: 80 summary: III Ah, but if you knew how time has dragged, days, nights! All the neighbour-talk with man and maid--such men! All the fuss and trouble of street-sounds, window-sights; All the worry of flapping door and echoing roof; and then, All the fancies ... No individual can separate himself either from other men and women, or can sever the connection between himself and his Father in Heaven. keywords: beauty; body; book; browning; care; city; day; dead; death; doubt; earth; end; ere; eyes; face; form; genius; god; gold; good; hair; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; home; hope; house; human; king; lady; life; lines; look; love; lyrics; man; men; mind; moment; music; nature; new; night; o'er; past; picture; place; play; poem; poet; poetry; point; power; read; rose; round; sea; set; soul; spirit; sun; tennyson; thee; things; think; thought; till; time; tis; truth; turn; view; way; woman; work; world; years; youth cache: 9067.txt plain text: 9067.txt