{"product_id":"selected-poems-isbn-9780140437263","title":"Selected Poems","description":"Robert Browning, a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era, was hailed by Henry James as a tremendous and incomparable modern. The sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensure enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes both suburban and sublime, combines lyric and demotic language, and introduces everyday events of the streets and marketplace into the rarified world of Victorian poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition includes examples from the early \u003ci\u003eDramatic Lyrics\u003c\/i\u003e (1842) and \u003ci\u003eDramatic Romances and Lyrics\u003c\/i\u003e (1845); from the masterpieces \u003ci\u003eMena and Women\u003c\/i\u003e (1855) and \u003ci\u003eDramatis Personae\u003c\/i\u003e (1864), and from the less familiar works of his later years. Together they convey the intensity, the lyric beauty, and the vitality of Browning's poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Selected PoemsIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eNote on the Text\u003cbr\u003ePorphyria's Lover\u003cbr\u003eJohannes Agricola in Meditation\u003cbr\u003eSong from \u003ci\u003ePippa Passes\u003c\/i\u003e (\"The year's at the spring\")\u003cbr\u003eScene from \u003ci\u003ePippa Passes\u003c\/i\u003e (\"There goes a swallow to Venice...\")\u003cbr\u003eMy Last Duchess\u003cbr\u003eSoliloquy of the Spanish Cloister\u003cbr\u003eThe Pied Piper of Hamelin; \u003ci\u003eA Chld's Story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Lost Leader\u003cbr\u003eMeeting at Night\u003cbr\u003eParting at Morning\u003cbr\u003eHome-Thoughts, from Abroad\u003cbr\u003eThe Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church\u003cbr\u003eLove Among the Ruins\u003cbr\u003eA Lovers' Quarrel\u003cbr\u003eUp at a Villa - Down in the City\u003cbr\u003eFra Lippo Lippi\u003cbr\u003eA Toccata of Galuppi's\u003cbr\u003eAn Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician\u003cbr\u003eMesmerism\u003cbr\u003eA Serenade at the Villa\u003cbr\u003e\"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Statue and the Bust\u003cbr\u003eHow It Strikes a Contemporary\u003cbr\u003eThe Patriot\u003cbr\u003eMemorabilia\u003cbr\u003eAndrea del Sarto\u003cbr\u003eIn a Year\u003cbr\u003eCleon\u003cbr\u003eTwo in the Campagna\u003cbr\u003eA Grammarian's Funeral\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Lee's Wife\u003cbr\u003eI. James Lee's Wife Speaks at the Window\u003cbr\u003eII. By the Fireside\u003cbr\u003eIII. In the Doorway\u003cbr\u003eIV. Along the Beach\u003cbr\u003eV. On the Cliff\u003cbr\u003eVI. Reading a Book, Under the Cliff\u003cbr\u003eVII. Among the Rocks\u003cbr\u003eVIII. Beside the Drawing-Board\u003cbr\u003eIX. On Deck\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGold Hair: \u003ci\u003eA Story of Pornic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDis Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos Jours\u003cbr\u003eA Death in the Desert\u003cbr\u003eCaliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island\u003cbr\u003eConfessions\u003cbr\u003eYouth and Art\u003cbr\u003eA Likeness\u003cbr\u003eMr. Sludge, \"The Medium\"\u003cbr\u003eApparent Failure\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue [to \u003ci\u003eDramatis Personae\u003c\/i\u003e]\u003cbr\u003eHouse\u003cbr\u003eSaint Martin's Summer\u003cbr\u003eNed Bratts\u003cbr\u003eClive\u003cbr\u003e[Wanting is - what?]\u003cbr\u003eDonald\u003cbr\u003eNever the Time and the Place\u003cbr\u003eThe Names\u003cbr\u003eNow\u003cbr\u003eBeatric Signorini\u003cbr\u003eSpring Song\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Titles\u003cbr\u003eIndex of First Lines\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Browning\u003c\/b\u003e (1812-1889) attended the newly founded University of London for a year before travelling widely on the Continent in the 1830s and 1840s.  After a clandestine courtship, he married Elizabeth Barrett in 1846 and they lived in Italy until her death in 1861.  He is one of the most significant and inventive of Victorian poets. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Daniel Karlin\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English at University College, London.  He has edited \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Book of Victorian Verse\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299981086949,"sku":"NP9780140437263","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140437263.jpg?v=1767736318","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/selected-poems-isbn-9780140437263","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}