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G. K. Chesterton, Robert Browning
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Agamemnon of Aeschylus, The , 120.
Alliance, The Holy, 89.
"Andrea del Sarto," 83.
Aristophanes' Apology , 120, 199.
Arnold, Matthew, 41, 55, 56.
Asolando , 132.
Asolo (Italy), 42, 131.
"At the Mermaid," 117.
Austria, 88, 89.
B
"Bad Dreams," 138.
Balaustion's Adventure , 119-120.
Barrett, Arabella, 74, 119.
Barrett, Edward Moulton, 58 seq. , 70, 73, 74, 76, 79.
Beardsley, Mr. Aubrey, 149.
Bells and Pomegranates , 105.
"Ben Ezra," 23, 201.
Birrell, Mr. Augustine, 160.
"Bishop Blougram," 51, 189.
Bishop Blougram's Apology , 188, 189, 199, 200.
Blot on the 'Scutcheon, A , 53.
Boyd, Mr., 62.
Browning, Robert: birth and family history, 3; theories as to his descent, 4-8; a typical Englishman of the middle class, 9; his immediate ancestors, 10 seq. ; education, 12; boyhood and youth, 17; first poems, Incondita , 17; romantic spirit, 18; publication of Pauline , 20; friendship with literary men, 21; Paracelsus , 22; introduction to literary world, 25; his earliest admirers, 26; friendship with Carlyle, 26; Strafford , 27; Sordello , 34; Pippa Passes , 43; Dramatic Lyrics , 45; The Return of the Druses , 51; A Blot on the 'Scutcheon , 53; correspondence with Elizabeth Barrett, 62 seq. ; their first meeting, 70; marriage and elopement, 78, 79; life in Italy, 81 seq. ; love of Italy, 82, 85 seq. ; sympathy with Italian Revolution, 90; attitude towards spiritualism, 91 seq. , 113, 190-199; death of his wife, 103; returns to England, 105; The Ring and the Book , 110; culmination of his literary fame, 110, 117; life in society, 110; elected Fellow of Balliol, 117; honoured by the great Universities, 118; Balaustion's Adventure , 119-120; Aristophanes' Apology , 120; The Agamemnon of Aeschylus , 120; Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau , 121; Red-Cotton Night-Cap Country , 122; Fifine at the Fair , 124; The Inn Album , 125; Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper , 125; La Saisiaz , 127; The Two Poets of Croisic , 127; Dramatic Idylls , 127; Jocoseria , 127; Ferishtah's Fancies , 127; Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day , 128; accepts post of Foreign Correspondent to the Royal Academy, 129; goes to Llangollen with his sister, 130; last journey to Italy, 130; death at Venice, 132; publication of Asolando , 132; his conversation, 36; vanity, 33, 36; faults and virtues, 40, 55; his interest in Art, 82 seq. ; his varied accomplishments, 84-85; personality and presence, 18, 33, 112 seq. ; his prejudices, 113-116; his occasional coarseness, 116; politics, 86 seq. ; Browning as a father, 105; as dramatist, 52; as a literary artist, 133 seq. ; his use of the grotesque, 48, 140, 143, 148 seq. ; his failures, 141; artistic originality, 136, 143, 158; keen sense of melody and rhythm, 145 seq. ; ingenuity in rhyming, 152; his buffoonery, 154; obscurity, 154 seq. ; his conception of the Universe, 175; philosophy, 177 seq. ; optimism, 179 seq. ; his love poetry, 49; his knaves, 51, 201-202; the key to his casuistical monologues, 199.
Browning, Life of (Mrs. Orr), 92.
Browning, Robert (father of the poet), 10, 119.
Browning, Mrs., née Wiedermann (mother), 11, 82.
Browning, Anna (sister), 14, 105.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (wife), 57 seq. , 91-99, 101, 103, 116, 119, 129, 131.
Browning Society, 129.
Burns, Robert, 169-170.
Byron, 11, 38, 141, 143.
Byronism, 19, 117.
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"Caliban," 9, 120.
"Caliban upon Setebos," 93, 135, 138.
Camberwell, 3, 8, 19.
"Caponsacchi," 108.
Carlyle, Thomas, 12, 16, 17, 26, 55, 56, 87, 115.
Carlyle, Mrs., 26.
"Cavalier Tunes," 46.
Cavour, 86, 90, 103.
Charles I., 28, 29.
Chaucer, 117.
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came," 159.
Christmas Eve , 105.
Church in Italy, The, 88.
"Clive," 127.
Clough, Arthur Hugh, 56.
Colombe's Birthday , 32.
Corelli, Miss Marie, 38.
Cromwell, Oliver, 73.
D
Darwin, 23, 39.
Dickens, 16.
"Djabal," 51, 52.
Domett, Alfred, 21.
"Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis," 161.
Dramatic Idylls , 127.
Dramatic Lyrics , 45-50.
Dramatis Personæ , 105.
Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan, 187, 188.
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Edinburgh Review , 122.
"Englishman in Italy, The," 150.
F
"Fears and Scruples," 126, 138.
"Ferishtah's Fancies," 138.
Fifine at the Fair , 9, 13, 51, 124, 199.
Fitzgerald, Edward, 116, 131.
Flight of the Duchess, The , 18.
Florence, 81, 94.
Forster, John, 26.
Foster, John, 187, 188.
Fox, Mr. Johnson, 20.
Fox, Mrs. Bridell, 33.
"Fra Lippo,", 51.
Fra Lippo Lippi , 83, 199.
French Revolution, 87.
Furnivall, Dr., 7, 129.
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"Garden Fancies," 46.
Garibaldi, 86, 89.
Gilbert, W.S., 144.
Gissing, Mr. George, 165.
Gladstone, 117.
Golden Treasury (Palgrave), 168.
Goldsmith, 169, 170.
Gordon, General, 90.
"Guido Franceschini," 106, 120, 200.
H
Henley, Mr., 148.
"Heretic's Tragedy, The," 137.
Hickey, Miss E.H., 129.
"Holy Cross Day," 153.
Home, David (spiritualist), 93-97, 113, 190, 191.
Home, David, Memoirs of, 93 seq.
Horne, 26.
Houghton, Lord, 129.
"House," 138.
"Householder, The," 138.
"How they brought the good News from Ghent to Aix," 46.
Hudibras (Butler), 57.
Hugo, Victor, 17.
Hunt, Leigh, 26.
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Incondita , 17.
Inn Album, The , 125.
Instans Tyrannus , 9.
Italy, 85 seq.
Italian Revolution, 88 seq.
"Ivàn Ivànovitch," 127.
J
Jameson, Mrs., 75.
Jerrold, Douglas, 34.
Jocoseria , 127.
Jowett, Dr., 118.
Julius Cæsar (Shakespeare), 28.
"Juris Doctor Bottinius," 161.
K
Keats, 15, 16, 19, 137, 142.
Kenyon, Mr., 22, 58, 69-70, 74, 76.
King Victor and King Charles , 32.
Kipling, Rudyard, 142.
Kirkup, Seymour, 103.
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L'Aiglon , 28.
"Laboratory, The," 47, 143.
Landor, 26, 56, 93, 101-103.
La Saisiaz , 127.
Letters, The Browning , 63.
Liberalism, 86.
"Lines to Edward Fitzgerald," 131.
Llangollen, 130.
Lockhart, 112.
"Lost Leader, The," 46.
"Lover's Quarrel, A," 50.
"Luigi," 45.
Lytton, Lord (novelist), 91.
M
Macready, 17, 27, 53.
Maeterlinck, 164, 184.
Manning, Cardinal, 91.
Mary Queen of Scots, 29.
"Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha," 147.
"May and Death." 21.
Mazzini, 89.
Men and Women , 105.
Meredith, George, 156, 165. Mill, John Stuart, 26, 56.
Milsand, 119.
Milton, 137.
Monckton-Milnes, 26, 100.
Mr. Sludge the Medium , 82, 96, 120, 190-199.
"Muléykeh," 127.
"My Star," 138.
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"Nationality in Drinks," 46, 138.
Napoleon, 42, 89.
Napoleon III., 56, 92, 121.
"Never the Time and the Place," 127.
Newman, Cardinal, 193.
Norwood, 18.
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"Ode on the Intimations of Immortality" (Wordsworth), 136.
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" (Keats), 137.
"Old Masters in Florence," 177.
"One Word More," 65.
Orr, Mrs., 72.
P
Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper , 125, 126, 152.
Paracelsus , 22, 25, 26, 41, 47, 158.
"Paracelsus," 24, 25.
Painting, Poems on, 83.
Palgrave, Francis, 117.
Paris, 94.
Parleyings with certain Persons of Importance in their Day , 22, 128, 158.
Pauline , 20, 21, 37, 41, 51.
"Pheidippides," 127.
Phelps (actor), 53.
"Pictor Ignotus," 83.
"Pied Piper of Hamelin, The," 153.
"Pippa," 45, 120.
Pippa Passes , 18, 45, 47, 51, 137.
Pisa, 81.
Pius IX., Church under, 88.
Plato, 21, 23.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 144.
Poetry, Pessimistic school of, 130.
"Pompilia," 201.
Pope, 11, 20, 57.
"Portrait, A," 138.
Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau , 121-122.
Princess, The (Tennyson), 148.
"Prometheus Unbound" (Shelley), 137.
Prussia, 88, 89.
Puritans, 30.
Pym, 28, 30.
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"Rabbi Ben Ezra," 201.
Red-Cotton Night-Cap Country , 122-124.
Return of the Druses, The , 51-53.
Revolution, The French, 15; Italian, 90.
Ring and the Book, The , 85, 106, 109, 123, 137, 160-176.
Ripert-Monclar, Comte de, 22, 93.
Roman Church, 114, 187, 188.
Rossetti, 163.
Royalists, 30.
Ruskin, 16, 55, 56, 91, 115.
Russia, 88.
S
Sand, George, 9, 94.
Santayana's, Mr., Interpretations of Poetry and Religion , 183-186.
"Sebald," 45.
Shakespeare, 17, 57.
Shakespeare Society, 129.
Sharp, Mr. William, 133.
Shaw, Mr. Bernard, 165.
Shelley, 15, 16, 17,19, 56, 136, 141, 143.
"Shop," 138.
"Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis," 138.
Silverthorne (Browning's cousin), 21.
"Sludge," 51, 52, 150, 189, 200.
Smith, Elder (publishers), 110.
"Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, The," 47.
"Sonnets from the Portuguese," 65.
Sordello , 23, 34, 42.
Speech, Free, 173.
Spenser, 142.
Spiritualism, 9, 91, 113, 190.
"Statue and the Bust, The," 109.
Sterne, 117.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 60, 114.
Straford , 27 seq. , 37.
"Stafford," 28, 29, 30.
Swinburne, 56, 116, 142,143.
T
Tait's Magazine , 20.
Talfourd, Sergeant, 26.
Tennyson, 27, 34, 55, 117, 141, 142, 143, 148.
Thackeray, Miss, 123.
"Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr," 46.
Time's Revenges , 9, 93.
Tolstoi, 115.
Tristram Shandy (Sterne), 163.
Two Poets of Croisic, The , 127.
U
University College, 14.
"Up jumped Tokay" (poem quoted), 140.
V
Venice, 131.
Victor of Sardinia, King, 23.
Vogler, Abt, 23.
W
Water Babies (Kingsley), 8.
Watts, Mr. G.F., 112.
Whitman, Walt, 21, 43, 49, 114, 165, 184.
"Why I am a Liberal" (sonnet), 86.
Wiedermann, William, 12.
Wiseman, Cardinal, 188.
Wimbledon Common, 18.
Wordsworth, 69, 136, 141, 143.
Wordsworth Society, 129.
Y
"Youth and Art," 50, 109.
Z
Zola, 164.
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