' (amateur periodical);
a comic defence of debt; preparing to publish 'Paracelsus';
friendship with
Count de Ripert-Monclar; Browning's treatment of 'Paracelsus';
the original Preface; John Forster's article on it in the
'Examiner' [16]
Browning, Robert: 1835-38--removal of the family to Hatcham;
renewed intimacy with his grandfather's second family;
friendly relations with Carlyle; recognition by men of the day;
introduction to Macready; first meeting with Forster;
Miss Euphrasia Fanny Haworth; at the 'Ion' supper; prospects
of 'Strafford';
its production and reception; a personal description of him at
this period;
Mr. John Robertson and the 'Westminster Review' [11]
Browning, Robert: 1838-44--first Italian journey; a striking
experience
of the voyage; preparations for writing other tragedies;
meeting with Mr. John Kenyon; appearance of 'Sordello';
mental developments; 'Pippa Passes'; Alfred Domett on the critics;
'Bells and Pomegranates'; explanation of its title.
List of the poems; 'A Blot in the 'Scutcheon', written for
Macready;
Browning's later account and discussion of the breach between him
and Macready; 'Colombe's Birthday'; other dramas; The
'Dramatic Lyrics';
'The Lost Leader'; Browning's life before his second Italian
journey;
in Naples; visit to Mr. Trelawney at Leghorn [19]
Browning, Robert: 1844-55--introduction to Miss Barrett;
his admiration for her poetry; his proposal to her;
reasons for concealing the engagement; their marriage; journey
to Italy;
life at Pisa; Florence; Browning's request for appointment
on a British mission to the Vatican; settling in Casa Guidi;
Fano and Ancona; 'A Blot in the 'Scutcheon' at Sadler's Wells;
birth of Browning's son, and death of his mother; wanderings
in Italy:
the Baths of Lucca; Venice; friendship with Margaret Fuller Ossoli;
winter in Paris; Carlyle; George Sand. Close friendship
with M. Joseph Milsand; Milsand's appreciation of Browning;
new edition of Browning's poems; 'Christmas Eve and Easter Day';
the Essay on Shelley; summer in London; introduction to Dante
G. Rossetti;
again in Florence; production of 'Colombe's Birthday' (1853);
again at Lucca, Mr. and Mrs. W. Story; f