My Star.
The Flight of the Duchess.
The Last Ride Together.
By the Fireside.
Prospice.
Amphibian.
James Lee's Wife.
A Tale.
Confessions.
Respectability.
Home-Thoughts from Abroad.
Home-Thoughts from the Sea.
Old Pictures in Florence.
Pictor Ignotus.
Andrea del Sarto.
Fra Lippo Lippi.
A Face.
The Bishop orders his Tomb.
A Toccata of Galuppi's.
Abt Vogler.
`Touch him ne'er so lightly', etc.
Memorabilia.
How it strikes a Contemporary.
"Transcendentalism".
Apparent Failure.
Rabbi Ben Ezra.
A Grammarian's Funeral.
An Epistle containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish,
the Arab Physician.
A Martyr's Epitaph.
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister.
Holy-Cross Day.
Saul.
A Death in the Desert.

POEMS.

Wanting is--What?
My Star.
The Flight of the Duchess.
The Last Ride Together.
By the Fireside.
Prospice.
Amphibian.
James Lee's Wife.
A Tale.
Confessions.
Respectability.
Home Thoughts, from Abroad.
Home Thoughts, from the Sea.
Old Pictures in Florence.
Pictor Ignotus.
Andrea del Sarto.
Fra Lippo Lippi.
A Face.
The Bishop orders his Tomb.
A Toccata of Galuppi's.
Abt Vogler.
"Touch him ne'er so lightly."
Memorabilia.
How it strikes a Contemporary.
"Transcendentalism":
Apparent Failure.
Rabbi Ben Ezra.
A Grammarian's Funeral.
An Epistle containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish,
the Arab Physician.
A Martyr's Epitaph.
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister.
Holy-Cross Day.
Saul.
A Death in the Desert.

A LIST OF CRITICISMS OF BROWNING'S WORKS.

INTRODUCTION.

I. The Spiritual Ebb and Flow exhibited in English Poetry from Chaucer to Tennyson and Browning.

Literature, in its most restricted art-sense, is an expression
in letters of the life of the spirit of man co-operating with
the intellect. Without the co-operation of the spiritual man,
the intellect produces only thought; and pure thought,
whatever be the subject with which it deals, is not regarded
as literature, in its strict sense. For example, Euclid's `Elements',
Newton's `Principia', Spinoza's `Ethica', and Kant's
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