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Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: An Annotated Bibliography for 1973
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A. Primary Works
A73:1] “A Browning Letter and Sonnets from the Portuguese.” BSN, 3 (03 1973), 35. ▪ Letter to Mary Schlesinger Talbot, dated 12 Dec. 1887, in which RB describes how he learned of the existence of the sonnets.Google Scholar
A73:2] “A Browning Poem for the Eve of Valentine.” Times (London), 13 02 1971, p. 1. ▪ Prints a 17-line Valentine poem by EBB. Cf. A71:6.Google Scholar
A73:3] “Browning's Latest.” Times Higher Education Supplement (London), 26 01 1973, p. 4. ▪ Prints a hitherto unpublished poetic fragment by RB, recently discovered by John Woolford.Google Scholar
A73:4]The Pied Piper. [See A71:1.] ▪ Rev. by Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, 25 (05 1972), 136.Google Scholar
A73:7]Buckler, William E., ed. The Major Victorian Poets: Tennyson, Browning, Arnold. (Riverside Edition.) Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. ▪ A selection of RB's shorter poems, with four sections from The Ring and the Book. Extensive notes.Google Scholar
A73:10]Gladish, Robert W.Elizabeth Barrett and the “Centurion”: The Background to an Addition to the Elizabeth Barrett Browning Canon. (Baylor Browning Interests, No. 23.) Waco, Tex.: Armstrong Browning Library, 1973. pp. xviii + 56. ▪ Reprint of EBB's anonymous review of Cornelius Mathews' poetry (and a MS version of the review), followed by a general discussion of the circumstances under which it was written. (“Centurion” was Mathews' nickname.) ▪ Rev. by Gardner B. Taplin, VP, 12 (Autumn, 1974), 241–42.Google Scholar
A73:11]Heydon, Peter N., and Kelley, Philip.eds.Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy 1849–1861, with Recollections by Mrs. Ogilvy. New York: Quadrangle and the Browning Institute, 1973. pp. xxxv + 220. ▪ The letters, which represent “the first major series of Elizabeth's letters to see the public light since 1937,” deal largely with her domestic and social life in Florence.Google Scholar
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A73:13]Kauvar, Gerald B., and Sorenson, Gerald C., eds. Nineteenth-Century English Verse Drama. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 1973. ▪ Includes King Victor and King Charles (pp. 223–53), with an introduction by Sorenson.Google Scholar
A73:15]King, Roma A. Jr., ed. The Complete Works of Robert Browning. Vol. 4. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press, 1973. pp. xxviii + 404. ▪ A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, ed. Thomas F. Wilson; Colombe's Birthday, ed. Park Honan; Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, ed. Raymond Fitch; Luria, ed. Morse Peckham. With notes, variant readings, and cumulative indexes of titles and first lines of poems.Google Scholar
Vols. 3–4 rev. by Reiman, Donald H., VP, 12 (Spring, 1974), 86–96. Vols. 2–4 rev. by TLS, 22 03 1974, pp. 293–94.Google Scholar
A73:16]Kintner, Elvan, ed. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett 1845–46. [See A69:7.] ▪Google Scholar
A73:19]Solacolu, Barbu, trans. Sonetele unei portungheze. Bucharest: “Universe,” 1971. pp. 100. ▪ English text and Romanian translation of Sonnets from the Portuguese. Illustrated by Vasile Kazar.Google Scholar
A73:21]Wingate, Bettye. “A Note on a Robert Browning Letter.” SIB, 1 (Spring, 1973), 32–33. ▪ Letter to W. Hamlet Smith, dated 10 Feb. 1887–printed in Letters of Robert Browning, ed. Hood, p. 261, and elsewhere—is transcribed for the first time in its entirety. (Reproduced on p. 17.)Google Scholar
B. Reference and Bibliographical Works and Exhibitions
B73:1]Abbott, Nedah. “A Bibliography of the Brownings (1968–First Quarter 1972).” SIB, 1 (Spring, 1973), 63–91. ▪ 397 items, arranged alphabetically. A continuation of B69:14.Google Scholar
B73:2] “Additions to the Collection.” Armstrong Browning Library Newsletter, No. 8 (04 1973), p. 5. ▪ Covers the period April 1969 through March 1973.Google Scholar
B73:3] “Browning in Many Media.” BSN, 3 (03 1973), 36–37. ▪ On recent radio programs, concerts, etc.Google Scholar
B73:6]East, Sally K. C.Browning Music: A Descriptive Catalog of the Music Related to Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the Armstrong Browning Library: 1972. Waco, Tex.: Armstrong Browning Library, 1973. pp. xv + 414. ▪ “There are 594 entries related to RB and 290 to EBB.” Main entries followed by indexes of composers, arrangers, editors, titles, and “performance medium.” Brief biographical sketches of most of the composers.Google Scholar
B73:7]Freeman, Ronald E. “A Checklist of Publications (July 1972–December 1972).” SIB, 1 (Spring, 1973), 57–62.Google Scholar
B73:8]Freeman, Ronald E. “A Checklist of Publications (January 1973–June 1973).” SIB, 1 (Fall, 1973), 20–22.Google Scholar
B73:9]Hudson, Gladys W., comp. An Elizabeth Barrett Browning Concordance. With a Foreword by Jack W. Herring. 4 vols. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1973. pp. xx + 440; vii + 441–1086; vii + 1087–1602; vii + 1603–2074. ▪ Computer-assisted, based on Poetical Works, ed. Kenyon (1898) and New Poems (1915). The volumes are divided as follows: (1) Juvenilia, The Seraphim and Other Poems, Chaucer Modernised; (2) Poems, 1844, Poems, 1850, Sonnets from the Portuguese, Casa Guidi Windows; (3) Aurora Leigh; (4) Poems Before Congress, Last Poems, Translations, Posthumous Poems. Vol. 1 also has a table of word frequency.Google Scholar
▪ Rev. by Timko, Michael, SIB, 2 (Spring, 1974), 96–99; American Notes and Queries, 12 (April 1974), 124–25.Google Scholar
B73:10]Joseph, Gerhard. “Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century.” Studies in English Literature, 13 (1973), 701–29. ▪ For RB, see pp. 716–17.Google Scholar
B73:11]Kelley, Philip, and Peterson, William S.. “Browning's Final Revisions.” BIS, 1 (1973), 87–118. ▪ The proper copy-text for RB is his 1888–89 Poetical Works as emended by two lists of corrections and revisions in his hand (here reproduced).Google Scholar
B73:12]King, Roma A. Jr. “Robert Browning: A Review of the Year's Research.” SIB, 2 (Fall, 1973), 7–19.Google Scholar
B73:13]Maynard, John. “Browning's ‘Sicilian Pastoral.’” Harvard Library Bulletin, 20 (1972), 436–43. ▪ Records and discusses variant readings in an early draft of “Love Among the Ruins.”Google Scholar
B73:14]Metzdorf, Robert F., comp. A Checklist of Manuscripts in the Library of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. New York: privately printed, 1969. ▪ For the Brownings, see pp. 12–15. Includes 26 letters of RB, 151 letters of EBB, and many MSS of EBB's poems (including Sonnets from the Portuguese).Google Scholar
B73:15]Munich, Adrienne. “The Browning Collection in the New York Public Library.” SIB, 1 (Fall, 1973), 23–25. ▪ Surveys the Browning holdings of the Manuscript Division, the Rare Book Room, and the Berg Collection.Google Scholar
B73:16]Peckham, Morse. “Lessons To Be Learned from the Ohio Browning Edition.” SIB, 1 (Fall, 1973), 71–73. ▪ On errors in the edition and the need for emending RB's text.Google Scholar
B73:19]Peterson, William S., and Keenan, Richard C.. “Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: An Annotated Bibliography for 1971.” BIS, 1 (1973), 173–86.Google Scholar
B73:21]Tobias, R. C. “Victorian Poetry.” Victorian Newsletter, No. 43 (Spring, 1973), pp. 8–11. ▪ Survey of scholarship and criticism, 1962–72.Google Scholar
C. Biography, Criticism, and Miscellaneous
C73:1]Allen, Frank. “Ariosto and Browning: A Reexamination of ‘Count Gismond.’” VP, 11 (1973), 15–25. ▪ RB drew upon the Genevra-Airodant episode of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and the Hero-Claudio episode of Much Ado About Nothing.Google Scholar
C73:2]Allen, Margaret V. “‘This Impassioned Yankee’: Margaret Fuller's Writing Revisited.” Southwest Review, 58 (1973), 162–71. ▪ EBB's disparagement of Fuller's writings has contributed to the poor literary reputation of the latter (pp. 163–64).Google Scholar
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C73:4]Antippas, A. P. “Browning's ‘The Guardian Angel’: A Possible Early Reference to Ruskin.” VP, 11 (1973), 342–44. ▪ RB may have been offering a refutation of Ruskin's low estimate of Guercino in Modern Painters.Google Scholar
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C73:6]Baly, Elaine. “Talking of the Brownings—Robert's Relations.” BSN, 3 (12 1973), 3–19. ▪ Mostly about Reuben Browning and his family. Includes an obituary and photograph of Reuben B., facsimiles of three RB letters, and music for a waltz composed by Christina Browning.Google Scholar
Additional comments by Elaine Baly, the Rev. Lane, Anthony J., and the editor in BSN, 4 (03 1974), 23–24. Corrections by R. E. Alton, July 1974, p. 29.Google Scholar
C73:7]Barker, Dudley. G. K. Chesterton: A Biography. New York: Stein and Day, 1973. ▪ See index.Google Scholar
C73:8]Barker, Felix. “Dear Love: Comedy Theatre.” Evening News (London), 17 05 1973.* ▪ Review of Jerome Kilty's play based on the love letters. See C70:37.Google Scholar
C73:9]Barnes, Clive. “The Theater: ‘I Love Thee Freely.’” New York Times, 18 09 1973, p. 37. ▪ A dramatized version of the love letters, written by Benjamin B. Zavin.Google Scholar
C73:10]Benvenuto, Richard. “Lippo and Andrea: The Pro and Contra of Browning's Realism.” Studies in English Literature, 13 (1973), 643–52. ▪ “In ‘Andrea del Sarto,’ Browning questions and rejects as a way to the Incarnational moment not only Andrea's art, but Lippo's too, an art he had accepted and defended as Incarnational in ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’.”Google Scholar
C73:12]Bischoff, Volker. “Browning's ‘The Statue and the Bust’: Eine Motivanalyse.” Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 209 (1972), 113–19.Google Scholar
C73:13]Bisson, Claude P. “Problèmes de méthodologie stylistique: description, explication, évaluation. Avec application à l'étude de la variation intratextuelle dans The Ring and the Book de Robert Browning.” Doctoral thesis, Univ. of Lyon, 1973.*Google Scholar
C73:16]Brestensky, Dennis F. “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to a Play.” Modern Language Studies, 1 (Summer, 1971), 3–8. ▪ On Pippa Passes as “poetry of experience.”Google Scholar
C73:17]Brooks, Harold F. “Lord Jim and Fifine at the Fair.” Conradiana, 3, No. 1 (1970–1971), 9–25. ▪ Similarities of the symbols of the butterfly and the swimmer in the two works.Google Scholar
C73:18]Brooks, Jean R.Thomas Hardy: The Poetic Structure. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 1971. ▪ See index.Google Scholar
C73:19]Brown, Margaret. “The Shelley Collection, Casa Magni, Lerici, Italy.” BSN, 3 (12 1973), 38. ▪ Emphasizes the Brownings' interest in Shelley.Google Scholar
C73:20] “The Browning Hum.” New Yorker, 49 (26 05 1973), 36–38. ▪ Account of the annual New York Browning Society luncheon, at which Anthony Burgess spoke on “Browning and the Modern Age.”Google Scholar
C73:21] “Browning Poem as a Panto.” Croydon Advertiser, 9 07 1971.* ▪ Review of musical version of “The Pied Piper” presented by Coloma Preparatory School.Google Scholar
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C73:23]Brugière, Bernard. “La metaphor de L'Anneau dans The Ring and the Book de R. Browning.” Le romantisme anglo-américain: Mélanges offerts à Louis Bonnerot, ed. Asselineau, Roger et al. (Études anglaises.) Paris: Didier, 1971. (pp. 257–66) ▪ The ring metaphor in relation to RB's view of the nature of art.Google Scholar
C73:24]Cameron, Kenneth W., ed. Victorian Notebook: Literary Clippings from Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers Concerning Tennyson, Scott, Shelley, Browning, Kingsley and Others. Hartford, Conn.: Transcendental Books, 1970. ▪ “This collection of Victorian newspaper clippings was put together in the 1880's and 1890's by an American who, it seems, lived in Philadelphia and subscripted to eastern periodicals, especially to the Philadelphia Public Ledger.… Browning and Tennyson were his favorites on the European side of the Atlantic…” (p. 2).Google Scholar
C73:25]Carleton, Frances B. “The Dramatic Monologue: Vox Humana.” DAI, 33 (1972), 269A (Univ. of Texas, Austin). ▪ “The concern of this study is with the philosophical, aesthetic, and psychological attributes of the dramatic monologue from roots in early antiphonal song, through certain precursors of the art in Elizabethan poetry, to the zenith of its artistic expressiveness in the work of Robert Browning in the nineteenth century.”Google Scholar
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C73:35]Crowder, Ashby Bland. “Browning Echoing Pope.” SIB, 1 (Fall, 1973), 67. ▪ Section II of The Inn Album.Google Scholar
C73:36]Crowder, Ashby Bland. “Browning's Intention in Christmas Eve.” Aevum (Milan), 47 (1973), 336–42. ▪ The poem's speaker is a dramatic creation rather than RB himself.Google Scholar
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C73:42]DiFederico, Frank R., and Markus, Julia. “The Influence of Robert Browning on the Art of William Wetmore Story.” BIS, 1 (1973), 63–85. ▪ The Browningesque qualities of both Story's poetry and his sculpture are examined. Illustrated.Google Scholar
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C73:46]Dress, Michael. “Music for Pippa Passes.” BSN, 3 (07 1973), 22–26. ▪ Dress' music for the 1968 production of Pippa Passes in Oxford is reproduced.Google Scholar
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C73:48]Editors of the Ohio University Browning Edition. “An Announcement from the Ohio University Browning Edition.” SIB, 1 (Fall, 1973), 50–51. ▪ On the resignation of Morse Peckham from the Editorial Board of the edition. Cf. B73:16.Google Scholar
C73:49]Felgar, Robert. “Browning as a Scholarly Interpreter.” SIB, 1 (Fall, 1973), 74–83. ▪ RB plays the role of learned scholar “in the endings of numerous poems.”Google Scholar
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C73:51]Fleissner, Robert F. “‘Looking as if She Were Alive’: Dorian Gray as the Last Duchess.” SIB, 1 (Fall, 1973), 57–59. ▪ “[Probably] Wilde borrowed his basic aestheticist theme from ‘My Last Duchess.’”Google Scholar
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C73:53]Govil, O. P. “Satire in Browning's Fifine at the Fair.” Nineteenth Century Studies (Calcutta), 1973, pp. 146–63.* ▪ Attempts to highlight the poem's dramatic and dialectical character and to show how “a vein of satire consistently runs through it.”Google Scholar
C73:54]Gransden, K. W. “The Figure of Lazarus in Tennyson and Browning.” Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 3 (01 1972), 93–98. ▪ Treats “Epistle of… Karshish,” “Andrea del Sarto,” and “Abt Vogler.”Google Scholar
C73:55]Gregory, Horace. Spirit of Time and Place: Collected Essays. New York: Norton, 1973. ▪ “Robert Browning: An ‘Escaped Victorian’” (pp. 84–94) is a reprint of his introduction to Robert Browning: Selected Poetry (A56:2).Google Scholar
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C73:62]Harrold, William E.The Variance and the Unity: A Study of the Complementary Poems of Robert Browning. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press, 1973. pp. ix + 244. ▪ RB's technique of writing complementary poems—which finds its highest achievement in The Ring and the Book— “is essentially a poetic method that achieves artistic balance by a series of particular comparisons and contrasts, which frequently are manifested in paradox and irony.”Google Scholar
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C73:71]Hope, Emily Blanchard. “Saving Casa Guidi.” BIS, 1 (1973), 1–29. ▪ A record of the various attempts to preserve the Brownings' Florentine apartment, culminating in the successful effort of the New York Browning Society during 1971–72. A list of contributors to the Casa Guidi Fund is appended. Illustrated.Google Scholar
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