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Title: Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning

Author: Robert Browning

Editor: Myra Reynolds

Release Date: February 9, 2009 [eBook #28041]

Language: English

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The Lake Library Edition

SELECTIONS FROM THE POEMS AND PLAYS OF ROBERT BROWNING

Edited, with an Introduction by

MYRA REYNOLDS

Professor of English Literature in the
University of Chicago

[Illustration: ROBERT BROWNING]

Scott, Foresman and Company
Chicago Atlanta New York

Copyright, 1909
Scott, Foresman and Company

286.4

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION-- PAGE

I. The Life of Browning 7
II. The Poetry of Browning 31

BIBLIOGRAPHY 57

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 60

SELECTIONS FROM BROWNING--

(_The figures in parentheses refer to the pages of the
Notes._)

Songs from Paracelsus (389) 65
Cavalier Tunes (391) 69
The Lost Leader (391) 72
"How They B