ROBERT BROWNING WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY F. G. KENYON, C.B., D.LITT. VOLUME I-PAULINE PARACELSUS-SORDELLO ERNEST BENN LIMITED LONDON First published 1912 by Smith Elder & Company This edition published by Ernest Benn Limited Reprinted by Permission of John Murray (Publishers) Ltd., London LOAN STACK Printed in the United States of America 9537 1967 v. l 2 строг PREFACE A FEW Words are necessary to explain the contents and arrangement of this edition of the poetry of Robert Browning. All poems contained in the previous complete editions (those of 1888-9 and of 1896) are included in it, with the addition of a few short poems of various dates, which, though already published, have not hitherto been taken into the collected editions. Some other extant verses, which it is certain that the poet would not have wished to reprint, are deliberately excluded. The text followed is that of the last edition supervised by the poet (that of 1888-9), with the correction of a few oversights, and with the addition of a numeration of lines in all the longer poems. In A portrait is prefixed to each volume. selecting these an attempt has been made to select the ten most characteristic portraits of the poet in existence. Particulars of thirty-three portraits (excluding photographs) are given in an appendix to the revised edition of Mrs. Orr's Life of Robert Browning (1908); but others have come to light since this list was compiled. The arrangement is as nearly chronological as 150 |