If you get simple beauty and nought else,
You get about the best thing God invents:
That's somewhat: and you'll find the soul you have missed,
Within yourself, when you return him thanks.
        (Fra Lippo Lippi, 217-220)

1. Abt Vogler
2. Among the Rocks
3. Andrea del Sarto
4. The Bishop Orders his Tomb
5. Caliban upon Setebos
6. Cavalier Tunes: Boot and Saddle
7. Cavalier Tunes: Marching Along
8. "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
9. Cleon
10. Confessions
11. Count Gismond--Aix in Provence
12. A Death in the Desert
13. Epilogue
14. An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
15. Fra Lippo Lippi
16. Give a Rouse
17. A Grammarian's Funeral
18. Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
19. Home-Thoughts, from the Sea
20. The Laboratory
21. Life in a Love
22. The Lost Leader
23. Love among the Ruins
24. Love in a Life
25. Meeting at Night
26. Memorabilia
27. My Last Duchess
28. My Star
29. Never the Time and the Place
30. Over the Sea our Galleys Went
31. Parting at Morning
32. The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A Child's Story
33. Porphyria's Lover
34. Prospice
35. Protus
36. Rabbi Ben Ezra
37. Saul
38. A Serenade at the Villa
39. Song
40. A Toccata of Galuppi's
41. Two in the Campagna
42. Up at a Villa--Down in the City
43. Waring
44. Youth and Art

Notes on Life and Works

• Ryals, Clyde de L.. “Browning, Robert (1812-1889).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.

Biographical information

Given name: Robert
Family name: Browning
Birth date: 7 May 1812
Death date: 12 December 1889
Nationality: English
Family relations
          father: Robert Browning
          wife: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (poet) (from 12 September 1846)
          sister: Sarianna Browning
          son: Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning
Languages
          English
          Greek
Education
          School of Rev. Thomas Ready, Peckham: 1825
          Home tutor
          London University, Prof. George Long's Greek class: 1829 to 1830
Honours
          Hon. M.A. of Oxford: June 1868
          Hon. fellow of Balliol College: October 1868
          Hon. LL.D. of the University of Edinburgh: 1884
          Hon. president of 5 Assoc. Societies of Edinburgh: 1885
Literary period: Victorian
Residences
          Camberwell: 1812 to 1835
          Hatcham: 1835
          Pisa: 1846 to 1847
          Florence: 1847 to 1861
          London: 1861
Cause of death: Heart disease
Buried at: Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey
First RPO edition: 1997