115

CHAPTER VIII

1855-1861

London Life--An Interlude in Paris--"Aurora Leigh"--Florentine
Days--"Men and Women"--The Hawthornes--"The Old Yellow
Book"--A Summer in Normandy--The Eternal City--The Storys and
Other Friends--Lilies of Florence--"It Is Beautiful!" 163

CHAPTER IX

1861-1869

The Completed Cycle--Letters to Friends--Browning's Devotion to
His Son--Warwick Crescent--"Dramatis Personae"--London Life--
Death of the Poet's Father--Sarianna Browning--Oxford Honors
the Poet--Death of Arabel Barrett--Audierne--"The Ring and
the Book" 199

CHAPTER X

1869-1880

In Scotland with the Storys--Browning's Conversation--An Amusing
Incident--With Milsand at St. Aubin's--"The Red Cotton
Night-cap Country"--Robert Barrett Browning's Gift for Art--
Alfred Domett ("Waring")--"Balaustion's Adventure"--Browning
and Tennyson--"Pacchiarotto"--Visits Jowett at Oxford--
Declines Lord Rectorship of St. Andrews--"La Saisiaz"--Italy
Revisited--The Dream of Asolo--"Ivanovitch"--Pride in His
Son's Success--"Dramatic Idylls" 221

CHAPTER XI

1880-1888

"Les Charmettes"--Venetian Days--Dr. Hiram Corson--The Browning
Society--Oxford Honors Browning--Katherine DeKay Bronson--
Honors from Edinburgh--Visit to Professor Masson--Italian
Recognition--Nancioni--The Goldoni Sonnet--At St. Moritz--
In Palazzo Giustiniani--"Ferishtah's Fancies"--Companionship
with His Son--Death of Milsand--Letters to Mrs. Bronson--
DeVere Gardens--Palazzo Rezzonico--Sunsets from the Lido--
Robert Barrett Browning's Gift in Portraiture 238

CHAPTER XII

1888-1889

"Asolando"--Last Days in DeVere Gardens--Letters of Browning and
Tennyson--Venetian Lingerings and Friends--Mrs. Bronson's
Choice Circle--Browning's Letters to Mrs. Bronson--Asolo--
"In Ruby, Emerald, Chrysopras"--Last Meeting of Browning and
Story--In Palazzo Rezzonico--Last Meeting with Dr. Corson--
Honored by Westminster Abbey--A Cross of Violets--Choral
Music to Mrs. Browning's Poem, "The Sleep"--"And with God Be
the Rest!" 269

Index 297

ILLUSTRATIONS

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