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Title: Browning's England
A Study in English Influences in Browning

Author: Helen Archibald Clarke

Release Date: July 10, 2009 [EBook #29365]

Language: English

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Browning's England

A STUDY OF
ENGLISH INFLUENCES IN BROWNING

BY
HELEN ARCHIBALD CLARKE
Author of "_Browning's Italy_"

NEW YORK
THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY

MCMVIII

_Copyright, 1908, by_
The Baker & Taylor Company

Published, October, 1908

_The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass. U.S.A._

To
MY COLLEAGUE IN PLEASANT LITERARY PATHS
AND
MANY YEARS FRIEND
CHARLOTTE PORTER

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
PAGE
English Poets, Friends, and Enthusiasms 1

CHAPTER II

Shakespeare's Portrait 42

CHAPTER III

A Crucial Period in English History 79

CHAPTER IV

Social Aspects of English Life 211

CHAPTER V

Religious Thought in the Nineteenth Century 322

CHAPTER VI

Art Criticism Inspired by the English Musician, Avison 420

ILLUSTRATIONS

Browning at 23 _Frontispiece_

PAGE
Percy Bysshe Shelley 4
John Keats 10
William Wordsworth 16
Rydal Mount, the Home of Wordsworth 22
An English Lane 33
First Folio Portrait of Shakespeare 60
Charles I in Scene of Impeachment 80
Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford 88
Charles I