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ROBERT BROWNING

PAULINE: PARACELSUS

STRAFFORD: SORDELLO: PIPPA

PASSES: KING VICTOR AND
KING CHARLES

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BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

Copyright, 1899,

BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

All rights reserved.

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

IN issuing this annotated edition of Browning's works, the Publishers have first made sure of following with scrupulous care the author's latest revised text. As regards the order of the poems, they have adopted for the earlier works the arrangement made by the poet before the publication of The Ring and the Book, when he gathered all of his previous poems and dramas and issued them, rearranged and revised, in a series of six volumes. The other writings which followed that edition are reproduced in the order of their appearance.

So many changes appear in the latest form of Pauline that it has been substituted for the earlier, and so appears as the first poem in this edition. At the same time it has been deemed of interest to students to print the earlier text, that of 1833 revised in 1865, immediately after, with corresponding numbers of pages, distinguished by asterisks.

The earlier Riverside edition, which appeared first in 1887, contained the text only of Browning's poems and dramas. At the same time a valuable work by Mr. George Willis Cooke was issued, bearing the title, A Guide Book to the Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning. Mr. Cooke brought together a great body of interesting material illustrative and exegetical of the poetry, arranging it in a dictionary form. This commentary is so valuable that the Publishers have decided to make it immediately available to the readers of the Riverside edition, and accordingly Mr. Cooke has drawn upon his Guide Book, as well as availed himself of later investigations, in the preparation of the Introductions and Notes to the several volumes.

In the final volume of the series will be found Indexes of contents and of first lines.

AUTUMN, 1899.

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