This recording offers a selection of the work of Robert Browning, ranging in style from the shorter lyrical poems to the vivid characterizations and perceptive insights of the dramatic monologues.

The Poetry of Browning Complete & Unabridged

Robert, Browning

Though his poetry took second place to his wife's during her lifetime, Browning's reputation as a poet eventually eclipsed hers. His eclectic and unusual reading matter fed his work, contributing to his distinctive voice. He lived to see the founding of a society in his honour in 1881.

The Complete Poems (penguin Classics)

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Based on documents relating to the trial of Count Guido Franceschini in 1698, this piece of dramatic verse takes the form of multiple viewpoints relaying subjective versions of events. The Count, who had murdered his wife for suspected adultery, was executed with four accomplices.

The Ring and the Book (Penguin Classics)

The ring and the book; (Penguin English poets)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Penguin Children's 60s)

Children's Books

<p>The aim of this edition is to present all the volumes and pamphlets of poetry which Browning published up to the year 1864, in the order in which they first made their appearance. The text, however, is that of the collected edition which he published at the end of his life.</p>

Poetical Works

Oxford University Press

When the townsfolk of Hamelin agree to pay a mysterious Piper to rid their town of the plague of rats, they are headed on a course of destruction. The piper's music may be sweet, but its lure is deadly.

Pied Piper of Hamelin

Houghton, Mifflin Company

Excerpt from The Complete Poetical Works of Browning The period when Browning was writing his dramas was one of spendthrift enjoyment of life. For it was a time not only of work in the British Museum and of excursions into all sorts of remote fields of literature, but of long rambles. Half gypsy experiences, hours when, stretched at fulllength beneath the sky, he made familiar and minute acquaintance with bird and leaf, insect and snail, the wind in the trees, the search for the northwest passage of argosies of clouds. He pursued all manner of interests which absorbed him for the moment; he was living, in short, that abundant life which was reﬂected later in multitudinous dramatic assumptions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Complete Poetical Works of Browning (Classic Reprint)

Forgotten Books

The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert BrowningThe publication anonymously of Pauline, in January, 1833, was followed by a period of travel. He went to Russia nominally as secretary to the Russian consul-general, and became so enamored of diplomatic life that he essayed to enter it, but failed so strong a hold did it take on him that he would have been glad in later life if his son had chosen this career.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

On the Poet Objective and Subjective: On the Latter''s Aim; On Shelley as Man and Poet (Classic Reprint)

Essays & Correspondence

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