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Robert Browning

Male : Poet. Secretly married and eloped with Elizabeth Barrett in 1846. They lived in Pisa, Florence and Venice. After Elizabeth's death in 1861 he settled in London. Died of pneumonia in Venice. Buried in Westminster Abbey
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Camberwell, London

Date of Birth : 1812 Date of Death : 1889 Age : 77

Education : Home education with some classes in Greek at London University
1833-1840
Pauline : A Fragment of a Confession
(1833) - Anon
Paracelsus
(1835 Effingham Wilson, London)
Strafford
(1837) - play
Sordello
(1840 Edward Moxon)
Offered in 1999 for £450

1841-1850
Bells and Pomegranates
(1841-6 Edward Moxon)
[Consisted of eight pamphlets
Dramatic Lyrics
(1842)
[This contained the poem "the Pied Piper of Hamelin"
King Victor and King Charles
(1842) - play
The Return of the Druses
(1843) - play
A Blot in the Scutcheon
(1843) - play
Colombe's Birthday
(1844) - play
Dramatic Romances
(1845)
Collected Works
(1848 Chapman & Hall)
Christmas Eve and Easter Day : A Poem
(1850 Chapman & Hall)

1851-1860
An Essay on Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1852)
Men and Women
(1855 Chapman & Hall) - 2 vols

1861-1870
Dramatis Personae
(1864 C & H)
The Ring and the Book
(1867-8 Smith Elder) - 4 vols (1869 Fields, Osgood in Boston) - 2 vols

1871-1880
Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau : Saviour of Society
(1871 Smith Elder)
Balaustion's Adventure
(1871 Smith Elder)
Fifine at the Fair
(1872 Smith Elder)
Red Cotton Nightcap Country, or Turf and Towers
(1873 Smith Elder)
The Inn Album
(1875 Smith Elder)
Aristophanes' Apology
(1875 James R Osgood, Boston)
Of Pacchiarotto and How he Worked in Distemper : With Other Poems
(1876)
(Trans) Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1877 Smith Elder)
La Saisiaz / The Two Poets of Croisic
(1878 Smith Elder)
Dramatic Idylls : First Series
(1878)
Dramatic Idylls : Second Series
(1879 Smith Elder)

1881-1890
Jocoseria
(1883 Smith Elder)
Ferishtah's Fancies
(1884 Smith Elder)
Pauline : A Fragment of a Confession
(1886 Richard Clay, London) - 400 published by T J Wise
Parleyings with Certain people of Importance in Their Day
(1887 Smith Elder)
(1887 Houghton Mifflin)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
(1888 Routledge) (1903 Warne) - Kate Greenaway
Asolando : Fancies and Facts
(1889 Smith Elder)
The Poetical Works
(1889 Smith Elder) - 16 vols
Saul
(1890 Not published) - Frank O Small

1891-1900
Life and Letters of Robert Browning
(1891 Smith Elder) - by Mrs Sutherland Orr
Works
(1896)
Pippa Passes : A Drama
(1898 Duckworth) - L Leslie Brooke
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
(1898 Harry Quilter, London) - Harry Quilter
+100 printed on vellum & signed by Quilter
Offered in 1995 for £850
Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(1899)
[In 1913 the American dealer Frank Sabin paid £6.550 at a Sotheby's auction for the original 571 love letters
written between the Brownings. In 1930 they were bought for $80.000 by Caroline Hazard and presented
to the English Poetry Collection at Wellesley College Library]

Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
(1899 Vale Press) - decorations Charles Ricketts. 210

1900-1925
The Poetical Works
(1902 Smith Elder) - 17 vols in 8
In a Balcony
(1902 Langworthy & Stevens, Chicago) - 400. W A Dwiggins
Men and Women
(1908 Doves Press) - 2. vols. 262. signed by Edward Johnston
Pippa Passes and Men & Women
(1908 Chatto & Windus) - Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale
Dramatis Personae and Dramatic Romances & Lyrics
(1909 Chatto & Windus) - Eleanor F Brickdale
Dramatis Personae
(1910 Doves Press, Hammersmith) - 250
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
(1912 Dent) - Margaret Tarrant
New Poems by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(1914)
Browning's Essay on Shelley : Being His Introduction to the Spurious Shelley Letters
(1914 Elkin Mathews) - Edited by Richard Garnett
Dramatis Personae and Dramatic Romances & Tales
(1919 Chatto & Windus) - Eleanor F Brickdale. 260
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(1923 John Murray)
Some Lamb and Browning Letters to Leigh Hunt
(1924 PP Cedar Rapids, US) - Ltd Ed 300
Pictor Ignotus, Fra Lippo Lippi, Andrea del Sarto
(1925 Golden Cockerel Press) - 360. Eric Gill

AFTER 1926
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
(1926 Saalfield, Akron US) - Frances Brundage
Letters of Robert Browning : Collected by T J Wise
(1933) - edited by T L Wood
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
(1934 Harrap) - 410 signed by Arthur Rackham
Browning's Essay on Chatterton
(1948 Harvard UP)
The Ring and the Book
(1949 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 2 vols. Ltd Ed 1500. Carl Schultheiss
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
(1962 OUP) - Harold Jones
Robert Browning : A Collection of Critical Essays
(1966 Methuen) - edited by Philip Drew
The Poems of Robert Browning
(1969 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Peter Reddick
The Poems of Robert Browning
(1982 Yale UP) - 2 vols. Edited by John Pettigrew

READING
William Sharp : Life of Robert Browning
(1890 Walter Scott, London)
Mrs Sutherland Orr : Life & Letters of Robert Browning
(1891 Houghton Mifflin) - 2 vols
W Hall Griffin & H C Minchin : The Life of Robert Browning
(1911 Methuen)
Lilian Whiting : The Brownings : Their Life & Art
(1917 Little Brown, Boston)
L N Broughton, C S Northrup, R Pearsall : Robert Browning - A Bibliography 1830-1950
(1954 Cornell UP) (1954 Cumberledge, London)
William Irvine & Park Honan : The Book, the Ring and the Poet
(1975)
Betty Miller : Robert Browning - A Portrait
(1952 Murray)
Maisie Ward : Robert Browning and His World
(1967)
Iain Finlayson : Browning - A Private Life
(2004 Harper Collins £30)

Related Writers

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Golden Cockerel Press
Arthur Rackham
Percy Bysshe Shelley


See also

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Everyman Series 1-500
Everyman Series 501-1000
(catherine) Kate Greenaway
Walter Savage Landor
Cecil Day Lewis
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Margaret Winifred Tarrant