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his son's marriage in 1887, his removal to the house he bought in De Vere Gardens, the gradual weakening of his robust health in his last years, his painless death in Venice, in his son's Palazzo Rezzonico on the very day, December 12, 1889, of the issue of " Asolando,” in London, his burial in Westminster Abbey in Poets' Corner, December 31, and the story of Robert Browning's earthly life is told.

A tablet set in the outer wall of the Palazzo Rezzonico, in Venice, commemorates Browning's life and death in the " woman-country" he loved, and in whose friendly earth Elizabeth Barrett Browning was buried. The inscription on this tablet is as follows:

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In no memorial, however, could the value of the Italian influence on the English genius of Robert and Elizabeth Browning be so well recorded as in their own poetic work.

CHARLOTTE PORTER.
HELEN A. CLARKE.

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1843. Bells and Pomegranates. | 1844. The Boy and the Angel.

No. IV. The Return

of the

Tragedy
Acts.

Druses. A

in Five

1843. Bells and Pomegranates. No. V. A Blot in the 'Scutcheon. A Tragedy in Three Acts.

1844. Bells and Pomegranates.

1844.

No. VI. Colombe's

Birthday. A Play in

Five Acts.

Hood's Magazine, vol. ii. no. viii. August, pp. 140-142. 1844. (Reprinted, changed and with additions, 1845, in "Dramatic Romances and Lyrics.")

1845. The Tomb at St. Praxed's (Rome, 15-). Hood's Magazine, vol. iii. no. vi. March, pp. 237-239. 1845.

The Laboratory (Ancien 1845. (Reprinted,

Régime):

Hood's

Magazine, vol. i. no

vi. June, pp. 513-514.

1844.

(Reprinted, 1845, under

title 66 France and

Spain," in "Drama

Lyrics.")

1845, in

66 Dramatic Romances and Lyrics." Retitled "The Bishop orders his Tomb in St. Praxed's Church," 1863, in "Poetical Works.")

tic Romances and 1045. The Flight of the

1844. Claret and Tokay: I.

"My heart sank with
our Claret flask,'
and II. "Up jumped
Tokay on our table,"
Hood's Magazine, vol.
i. no. vi. June, p. 525.
1844.
(Reprinted,

1845, in 1845.
"Dramatic Romances
and Lyrics." Retitled,
"Nationality in
Drinks," and "Here's
to Nelson's Memory'
[Beer], grouped with
them, in 1863, "Poeti-
cal Works.")

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1845.

(2) "Here's to Nel- | 1849. son's Memory."

(3) "Nobly, nobly

Cape St. Vin

cent."

1850.

The Tomb at St. 1852. Praxed's.

Garden Fancies:

(1) The Flower's
Name.

(2) Sibrandus Schaf-
naburgensis.

France and Spain:

(1) The Laboratory.
(2) The Confessional.
Flight of

The

Duchess.

Earth's Immortalities.

the

1854.

1855.

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1846. Bells and Pomegranates. No. VIII. and last. Luria; and A Soul's Tragedy.

1849. Poems: A New Edition in Two Volumes. (First Collected Edition: Including “ Paracelsus" and "Bells and Pomegranates," leaving out "Strafford," "Sordello," "Home Thoughts from Abroad," (2) "Here's to Nelson's Memory and "Claret and Tokay." This second "Home Thought and the two following, "Claret " and "Tokay," being reprinted together as

"Nationality in Drinks" in "Poetical Works," 1863.) Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day.

Introductory Essay by
Robert Browning,
"Letters of Percy
Bysshe Shelley," pp.
1-44. London. 1852.
(Not reprinted by Brown.
ing, but by London
Browning Society and
Shelley Society, in-
cluded in "Prose
Pieces," Camberwell
Browning.)

Two Poems by E. B. B.
and R. B. [The
Twins.] [Pamphlet.]
Cleon. [Pamphlet.]
(Reprinted, 1855, in
"Men and Women.")

1855. The Statue and the Bust. [Pamphlet.]

(Reprinted, 1855, in "Men and Women ")

1955. Men and Women.

two volumes.

CONTENTS. I.

Love among Ruins.

In

the

Down

A Lovers' Quarrel.
Evelyn Hope.
Up at a Villa -
in the City. (As
Distinguished by an
Italian Person of
Quality.)

A Woman's Last Word.
Fra Lippo Lippi.
A Toccata of Galuppi's.
By the Fireside.
Any Wife to Any Hus-
band.

An Epistle containing the Strange Medical Experience of Kar

1855.

shish, the Arab Phy- 1855. The Guardian-Angel: A

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Andrea Del Sarto. 1857.

(Called "The Fault-
less Painter.")

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dom.

p. 16.

The Keepsake,

1856.

(Not reprinted by Brown

ing. Included in "Fugitive Poems.")

May and Death.

Keepsake,

1857:

The

p. 164.

(Reprinted, changed, 1864, in "Draniatis Personæ.")

1863. The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. Third Edition. In three volumes.

Vol. I. Lyrics, Romances, Men and Women.

Vol. II. Tragedies and Other Plays. Vol. III. Paracelsus, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day. (Second Collected Edition. "Third Edi tion" meaning that the poems given appear here for the third

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