608 Pages
by Routledge

608 Pages
by Routledge

A canonical Victorian writer and thinker, Barrett Browning personified the engaged intellectual. This edition provides a foundation for a complete analysis and interpretation of her works – and of Victorian Britain. The edition presents accurate and accessible texts of all her published literary works. Volume 2: Poems, 4th edn (1856), continued.

Volume 2: Poems, 4th edn (1856), continued 31. Crowned and Wedded 32. Crowned and Buried 33. To Flush, My Dog 34. The Deserted Garden 35. My Doves 36. Hector in the Garden 37. Sleeping and Watching 38. Sounds [Sonnets] 39. The Soul’s Expression 40. The Seraph and Poet 41. Bereavement 42. Consolation 43. To Mary Russell Mitford 44. On a Portrait of Wordsworth by B. R. Haydon 45. Past and Future 46. Irreparableness 47. Tears 48. Grief 49. Substitution 50. Comfort 51. Perplexed Music 52. Work 53. Futurity 54. The Two Sayings 55. The Look 56. The Meaning of the Look 57. A T ought for a Lonely Death-bed 58. Work and Contemplation 59. Pain in Pleasure 60. Flush or Faunus 61. Finite and Infinite 62. An Apprehension 63. Discontent 64. Patience Taught by Nature 65. Cheerfulness Taught by Reason 66. Exaggeration 67. Adequacy 68. To George Sand. A Desire 69. To George Sand. A Recognition 70. The Prisoner 71. Insufficiency 72. Two Sketches. H. B. I 73. [Two Sketches.] A. B. II 74. Mountaineer and Poet 75. The Poet 76. Hiram Powers’s Greek Slave 77. Life 78. Love 79. Heaven and Earth 80. The Prospect 81. Hugh Stuart Boyd. His Blindness 82. Hugh Stuart Boyd. His Death, 1848 83. Hugh Stuart Boyd. Legacies 84. The Lost Bower 85. A Song Against Singing 86. Wine of Cyprus 87. A Rhapsody of Life’s Progress 88. A Lay of the Early Rose 89. The Poet and the Bird 90. The Cry of the Human 91. A Portrait 92. Confessions 93. Loved Once 94. The House of Clouds 95. A Sabbath Morning at Sea 96. A Flower in a Letter 97. The Mask 98. Calls on the Heart 99. Wisdom Unapplied 100. Memory and Hope 101. Human Life’s Mystery 102. A Child’s T ought of God 103. The Claim 104. Song of the Rose 105. A Dead Rose 106. The Exile’s Return 107. The Sleep 108. The Measure 109. Cowper’s Grave 110. The Weakest Thing 111. The Pet-Name 112. The Mourning Mother 113. A Valediction 114. Lessons from the Gorse 115. The Lady’s Yes 116. A Woman’s Shortcomings 117. A Man’s Requirements 118. A Year’s Spinning 119. Change upon Change 120. That Day 121. A Reed 122. The Dead Pan 123. A Child’s Grave at Florence 124. Catarina to Camoens 125. Life and Love 126. A Denial 127. Proof and Disproof 128. Question and Answer 129. Inclusions 130. Insufficiency 131–74. Sonnets from the Portuguese 175. Casa Guidi Windows

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