Robert Browning - The Complete Works of Robert Browning - Poems, Plays, Letters & Biographies in One Edition

Carlyle, Thomas and Jane, 30, 38, 39, 41, 61, 68, 97, 129, 130, 131

Casa Alvisi, 242, 243, 274

“Casa Guidi Windows,” 106, 115, 116

“Catarina to Camoens,” 71, 83

Chaucer, project to modernize, 60

“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” 152, 261

“Child’s Grave at Florence, A,” 121

Chorley, Henry, 39, 40, 147

“Christmas Eve and Easter Day,” 110, 119, 123, 124, 125

“Christopher Smart,” 237

Clarke, Mary Graham. See Barrett, Mrs.

“Clasped Hands, The,” 153

Coddington, Fanny, 260

“Colombe’s Birthday,” 27, 38, 143

“Comfort,” 47

“Conclusion,” 72

“Confessions,” 46, 83, 84

Cook, Mrs. Surtees. See Barrett, Henrietta

Corson, Dr. Hiram, criticism of Browning’s poetry, 29, 218; visit to Browning, 35, 222, 244, 245-247, 290-291; founder of Browning Society, 240-241; letters from Browning, 247, 259; 215

Cosimo I, statue of, 114

“Cowper’s Grave,” 46, 57

Coxhoe Hall, 16

Cranch, Christopher Pearse, 111

Crosse, Andrew, 58, 59

“Crowned and Wedded,” 46

“Cry of the Children, The,” 46

“Curse for a Nation, A,” 186

Curtis, George William, 118, 119

Cushman, Charlotte, 40, 141

“Dead Pan, The,” 47, 68, 83

“Deaf and Dumb,” 205

“Death in the Desert, A,” 205, 237

“Denial, A,” 84

“De Profundis,” 18, 52, 136

“Development,” 5

Dickens, Charles, 30, 33, 59, 61, 69

Dilke, Mr., 64

Domett, Alfred, friendship for Browning, 14, 39, 228; Browning’s letters to, 42, 43; Arnould’s letters to, 69, 94, 99, 103

Dowden, Dr. Edward, 97, 133

Dowson, Christopher, 39

“Drama of Exile, A,” 46, 71-72

“Dramatic Idyls,” 236

“Dramatis Personæ,” 203-205

“Dryope,” statue of, 263

Dulwich Gallery, 11

Eastnor Castle, 22

Egerton-Smith, Miss, 233-234

Elgin, Lady, 131, 132, 167

Eliot, George, 190

“Englishman in Italy, The,” 71

“Epistle of Karnish,” 158

“Essay on Mind,” 22

“Eurydice to Orpheus,” 265

“Evelyn Hope,” 120

“Face, A,” 205

Faucit, Helen (Lady Martin), 70, 143

“Ferishtah’s Fancies,” 244

Field, Kate, Browning gives locket, 154; visit to the Brownings, 182; Browning’s letters to, 183, 186, 208; Mrs. Browning’s letter to, 187

“Fifine,” 237

“Flight of the Duchess, The,” 80, 152

“Flute-Music,” 267

Forster, John, criticism of “Paracelsus,” 30; friendship for Browning, 31, 32, 129; 33, 39, 69

Fox, Rev. William Johnson, 30, 140, 141

“Fra Lippo Lippi,” 152, 169-170Franceschini, tragedy of, 181

Fuller, Margaret. See D’Ossoli, Marchesa

Furnivall, Dr., 240

“Futurity,” 47

Garrow, Theodosia. See Trollope

Giorgi, Signor, 217

“Gold Hair,” 204

Gosse, Edmund, 97, 281

“Grammarian’s Burial, A,” 152

“Greek Christian Poets, The,” 23, 65, 206

Griffin, Professor Hall, 27, 118, 134

“Guardian Angel, The,” 103, 152

Gurney, Rev. Archer, 38

“Half Rome,” 218

Haworth, Fanny, letter from Browning, 36; 40

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 150, 178-179

“Hector in the Garden,” 47

“Helen’s Tower,” 222

“Hervé Riel,” 211

Hillard, George Stillman, 106, 118

Hodell, Dr. Charles W., 215-216

Holmes, Dr. Oliver Wendell, 48

“Holy Cross Day,” 158

Hope End, 16, 19, 22, 24

Horne, Richard Hengist, letter from Elizabeth Barrett, 19, 59; friendship with Miss Barrett, 30, 53, 60, 61, 62, 65, 68

Hosmer, Harriet, takes cast of “Clasped Hands,” 153; excursion with Brownings, 156, 157; letter from Browning, 168; visits poets, 191, 194

“How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix,” 35

“In a Balcony,” 144, 158, 203

“In a Gondola,” 36

“Inclusions,” 84

“Incondita,” 14, 140

“Inn Album,” 232, 269

“Insufficiency,” 47, 84

“In the Doorway,” 207

“Isabel’s Child,” 46, 57

Italy, political conditions of, 105, 108, 115, 117, 121, 143, 180

“Ivan Ivanovitch,” 27, 236

James, Henry, characterization of Browning, 224

“James Lee’s Wife,” 204, 261

Jameson, Mrs., friendship with Miss Barrett, 73, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 129; letter from Browning, 108

Jerrold, Douglas, 41

Jowett, Dr., 209, 229, 281

Kemble, Mrs. Fanny, 129, 138, 153, 154, 155

Kenyon, John, 33; meets Browning, 40; offers an introduction to Miss Barrett, 41; 45; visit to Rydal Mount, 56; account of, 58, 59; termed the “joy-giver,” 65; shows manuscript of “Dead Pan” to Browning, 68; dedication of "Paracelsus" to, 69; appreciation of, 74; letters to the Brownings, 74, 97; friendship, 112, 113, 129, 137; dedication of “Aurora Leigh” to, 174; death and legacy to Brownings, 176

Kingsley, Charles, 139

King Victor and King Charles, 69

Kinney, Mrs., 144, 145

“Lady and the Painter, The,” 288

“Lady Geraldine’s Courtship,” 71, 72, 73

“Lament for Adonis,” 23

Landor, Walter Savage, chirography of, 23; meets Browning, 30; courtesy of, 32; meets Miss Barrett, 55, 59, 137; quoted, 60; intimacy with Leigh Hunt, 112, 113; opinions, 138; guest of Brownings, 182; homage from Browning, 183; guest of Storys, 183, 184, 190, 192

“La Saisiaz,” 233-234

“Last Poems,” 202

“La Torre all’ Antella,” 264, 295

“La Vallière,” 33

Leighton, Sir Frederic, 200

“Les Charmettes,” 238

“Lost Leader, The,” 32

“Loved Once,” 83, 84

Lowell, James Russell, 51, 74

“Luria,” 69

Lytton, Bulwer, 33, 53, 60

——, Lord (Owen Meredith), 142; entertains Mrs. Browning, 145-146; visits the Brownings, 149, 150, 158

Macready, William, meeting with Browning, 30, 31; suggests playwriting to Browning, 32; sees “Strafford,” 33; produces “Strafford,” 34; dinner to Browning, 39; produces “A Blot in the ’Scutcheon,” 69, 70

Marcello, Contessa, 276

Martineau, Harriet, friendship with Brownings, 33, 35, 39, 60, 62, 68

Masson, Professor, Browning entertained by, 249-251

Mazzini, 13, 143

Medici, Marchesa Peruzzi di, birthday fête, 184; reminiscences of, 188, 193; visit to Scotland, 221; villa of, 239; translation of Duprè’s Autobiography, 257; Browning’s letter to, 257; Florentine palace of, 265

Medici, statue of Fernandino di, 173

“Meeting at Night,” 120

“Men and Women,” 106, 157, 164, 169, 172

Millais, Lady, 240

——, Sir John Everett, Browning’s letter to, 227-228; 251

Milnes, Monckton (Lord Houghton), 30, 60, 61, 138; christening party, 139

Milsand, Joseph, meeting with Browning, 134; paper on Browning, 135; letter from Browning, 152, 225; friendship with Brownings, 159, 224, 225, 226; criticism of "Aurora Leigh," 176; death, 259; portrait, 263

Mitford, Mary Russell, 32; association with the Brownings, 32, 45, 55, 56, 58, 61, 65, 72; letter from Mrs. Browning, 108, 118, 135, 136, 159; death, 173

Mohl, Mme., 132, 167, 171

Moore, Mrs. Bloomfield, 252

Moulton-Barrett, Elizabeth (niece), 18

——. See Barrett, explanation of name, 17

Nancioni, il Signor Dottore, 245

Nettleship, Mr., essays on Browning, 213

“New Spirit of the Age, The,” 60, 68

Nightingale, Florence, 140

“Old Yellow Book, The,” 215

“One Word More,” 123, 168-169, 205

Ongaro, Dall’, 194

“Only a Cure,” 121

Ossoli, Marchesa d’ (Margaret Fuller), 111, 112; visits the Brownings, 118; death, 112, 126

“Other Half Rome, The,” 218