A71:l]The Pied Piper of Hamelin. New York: Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, 1971. [pp. 28; unpaginated.] Illustrations by C. Walter Hodges. Rev. by Times Literary Supplement, 22 Oct. 1971, p. 1328; Sharon Karamazin, Library Journal, 97 (15 Feb. 1972), 772; V. H., Horn Book, 48 (April 1972), 156.Google Scholar

A71:2]Allen, Frank C. “A Critical Edition of Robert Browning's ‘Bishop Blougram's Apology.’” Dissertation Abstracts, 31 (1971), 4109A (Univ. of Maryland). Text is that of the first edition.Google Scholar

A71:3]Altick, Richard, ed. The Ring and the Book. Harmondsworth Middlesex: Penguin, 1971. pp. 707. Text is that of the first edition. With a brief Introd., bibliography, and notes. Rev. by Isobel Armstrong, Browning Society Notes, 2 (March 1972), 20–22.Google Scholar

A71:4]Collins, Thomas J., ed. The Brownings to the Tennysons: Letters from Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Alfred, Emily, and Hallam Tennyson 1852–1889. (Baylor Browning Interests, No. 22.) Waco, Tex.: Armstrong Browning Library, 1971. pp. 59. 38 letters, of which 24 are previously unpublished. Appendices: “Additional Family Letters” (three by Pen and Sarianna Browning); “Browning Books in Alfred Tennyson's Library” (with inscriptions noted); “The Sources of Browning's ‘Clive’” (reprinted from Browning Newsletter, 1969). No index. Rev. by George O. Marshall, Jr., Browning Newsletter, No. 8 (Spring, 1972), pp. 64–67.Google Scholar

A71:5]Dooley, Allan C. “Browning's Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau: An Annotated Edition with an Introductory Study of Napoleon III in Victorian Literature.” Dissertation Abstracts, 31 (1971), 5395A (Northwestern Univ.). The MS in Balliol College Library, the 1871 first edition, and the 1888 collected edition are collated.Google Scholar

A71:6]Gent, George. “Elizabeth Barrett Poem Pledged Valentine Love.” New York Times, 13 02 1971, p. 29. Text of previously unpublished poem by EBB, with a new pencil sketch of her by her brother.Google Scholar

A71:7]Herring, Jack W. “A Browning Letter to Mr. Pfeiffer.” Browning Newsletter, No. 7 (Fall, 1971), pp. 45–47. Prints letter from RB to J. Edward Pfeiffer, 16 Dec. 1886.Google Scholar

A71:8]King, Roma A. Jr., ed. The Complete Works of Robert Browning. Vol. 3. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press, 1971. pp. xxviii + 397. Pippa Passes, ed. Morse Peckham;.King Victor and King Charles, ed. Park Honan; Essay on Chatterton, ed. Donald Smalley; Dramatic Lyrics, ed. John Hulsman; The Return of the Druses, ed, Morse Peckham. With notes and variant readings.Google Scholar

A71:9]Korg, Jacob, ed. The Poetry of Robert Browning. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971. pp. xlii + 588. A selection. Text is that of Porter and Clarke's Complete Works (1898). “The poems appear in the order of their first publication in book form, with some exceptions.” With an Introd. and maps.Google Scholar

A71:10]Lewis, C. Day, ed. The Poems of Robert Browning. New York, Heritage Press, 1971. pp. xviii + 299. A selection. Lewis' Introd. draws heavily upon Betty Miller and Robert Langbaum. Illustrated with wood engravings by Peter Reddick.Google Scholar

A71:11]McNally, James. “Two Small Verses of Browning.” Victorian Poetry, 9 (1971), 338–41. Impromptu poems on Disraeli and Queen Victoria.Google Scholar

A71:12]Taplin, Gardner B. “The Brownings and the Reverend William Ware.” Browning Newsletter, No. 7 (Fall, 1971), pp. 3–8. Prints a letter from EBB and RB to Ware, 28 Oct. 1848.Google Scholar

B71:1] “Doctoral Dissertations in Progress.” Browning Newsletter, No. 7 (Fall, 1971), p. 49. 7 items.Google Scholar

B71:2]East, Sally C. “List of the Musical Settings in the Armstrong Browning Library Omitted in the BNP Bibliography.” Browning Newsletter, No. 7 (Fall, 1971), pp. 15–41. Additions to the list in Broughton, Northup, and Pearsall.Google Scholar

B71:3]Freeman, Ronald E. “A Checklist of Publications (July 1970-December 1970).” Browning Newsletter, No. 6 (Spring, 1971), pp. 63–67.Google Scholar

B71:4]Freeman, Ronald E. “A Checklist of Publications (January 1971-July 1971).” Browning Newsletter, No. 7 (Fall, 1971), pp. 63–68.Google Scholar

B71:5]French, Hannah D. “The Browning Collection of the Wellesley College Library.” Browning Newsletter, No. 6 (Spring, 1971), pp. 28–37. Includes 4 pp. of illustrations.Google Scholar

B71:6]Paroissien, David. “Mrs. Browning's Influence on and Contribution to A New Spirit of the Age (1844).” English Language Notes, 8 (1971), 274–81. EBB's substantial contributions were heavily edited and fragmented by R. H. Horne.Google Scholar

B71:7] “Performances, Symposiums, and Exhibits.” Browning Newsletter, No. 7 (Fall, 1971), pp. 50–51. 6 items.Google Scholar

B71:8]Peterson, William S. “Robert Browning: A Review of the Year's Research.” Browning Newsletter, No. 6 (Spring, 1971), pp. 3–10.Google Scholar

B71:9]“Research in Progress.” Browning Newsletter, No. 7 (Fall, 1971), p. 42. 10 items.Google Scholar

B71:10]Shorter, Mary D. “Robert Browning: An Index to the NCBEL.” Browning Newsletter, No. 6 (Spring, 1971), pp. 41–45. Author index for entries under RB in the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.Google Scholar

B71:11]Szladits, Lola L. “New in the Berg Collection: 1965–1969.” Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 75 (1971), 9–29. Includes description of large group of Moulton-Barrett family papers that shed light on EBB's early years.Google Scholar

B71:12]Turner, Craig. “Dissertations Completed.” Browning Newsletter, No. 6 (Spring, 1971), p. 40. 8 items.Google Scholar

C71:l]Abou'l, Nadia O. M.The Humanism of Robert Browning: A Study of Theme and Technique in the Poetry of Robert Browning. Cairo: Anglo-Egyptian Bookshop, [1971]. pp. xi + 368. Introd.: “The book is essentially a study of Browning's thought and poetry in the light of the Italian Renaissance as it was started by the Platonic Academy of Marsilio Ficino, in the Florence of the Medicis.” Revision of a Ph.D. thesis submitted to Trinity College, University of Dublin, in 1967.Google Scholar

C71:2]Affsprung, Wendell H. “Browning's Theory of Objectivity.” Dissertation Abstracts, 32 (1971), 2049A (Washington Univ.). “…the aim of this study is to demonstrate that he thought of himself as one of the objective poets or ‘fashioners’ discussed in the ‘Essay on Shelley.’”Google Scholar

C71:3]Aiken, Susan H. “The Development of Browning's Imagery in the Dramatic Monologue, 1842–1864.” Dissertation Abstracts, 32 (1971), 1463A (Duke Univ.). The increasing complexity of RB's imagery.Google Scholar

C71:4]Baly, Elaine. “Browning and Painting.” Society Notes (Browning Society of London), 1 (05 1971), 12–15. Talk given to the Browning Society of London, 21 Nov. 1970.Google Scholar

C71:5]Baly, Elaine. “An Unusual Friendship.” Society Notes (Browning Society of London), 1 (05 1971), 3–12. Letters from William G. Kingsland to Mrs. Winifred Meadows Johnson, mostly about Kingsland's friendship with RB. Also contains a description of A. J. Armstrong's 1926 “Browning Pilgrimage” and prints a letter from Kingsland to Pen Browning.Google Scholar

C71:6]Bennett, John R. “Robert Browning's Case-Making Poems: A Modern Revaluation.” Dissertation Abstracts, 31 (1971), 4703–04A (State Univ. of New York at Buffalo). The poems are “Bishop Blougram's Apology,” “Mr. Sludge, ‘The Medium,’” Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, and Fifine at the Fair.Google Scholar

C71:7]Bloom, Harold. The Ringers in the Tower: Studies in Romantic Tradition. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1971. Chap. 11 is entitled “Browning's Childe Roland: All Things Deformed and Broken.” Rev. by Morse Peckham, Browning Newsletter, No. 9 (Fall, 1972), pp. 59–61.Google Scholar

C71:8] “Browning as Man and Poet.” Times Literary Supplement, 19 02 1971, p. 220. Review essay.Google Scholar

C71:9]Burgess, Anthony. “Love Story (19th-century Style).” New York Times, 27 04 1971, p. 43. Discusses Casa Guidi Campaign.Google Scholar

C71:10]Christ, Carol T. “The Aesthetic of Particularity in the Poetry of Rossetti, Browning, and Hopkins.” Dissertation Abstracts, 31 (1971), 6596A (Yale Univ.). Emphasis on similarity between RB and Hopkins in their awareness of the “individuality of each living thing.”Google Scholar

C71:11]Cromie, Bob. “Browning Home Gets Reprieve.” Chicago Tribune, 14 06 1971, Sec. 1, p. 22. On Casa Guidi.Google Scholar

C71:12]Cundiff, Paul A. “Browning's Old Bishop.” Victorian Poetry, 9 (1971), 452–53. The first line of “The Bishop Orders His Tomb” is drawn from Job rather than Ecclesiastes.Google Scholar

C71:13]Davis, Norman R. “‘Incidents in the Development of a Soul’: A Study of the Development of a Concept in Three Poems by Robert Browning.” Dissertation Abstracts, 32 (1971), 1466A (Univ. of Oregon). The 3 poems are Pauline, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, and Red Cotton Night-Cap Country.Google Scholar

C71:14]DeBaum, Vincent C. “Browning: Art Is Life Is Thought.” CLA Journal, 14 (1971), 387–401. Through the breadth of his interests, RB parallels the entire Renaissance in its vigor and intensity of intellectual, artistic, and social life.Google Scholar

C71:15]Early, Tracy. “Browning Italy Apartment Saved.” Waco [Tex.] Times-Herald, 10 11 1971. On Casa Guidi.Google Scholar

C71:16]Felgar, Robert P. III., “Browning's Narrative Art.” Dissertation Abstracts, 32 (1971), 963A (Duke Univ.). A full survey of RB's narrative poems.Google Scholar

C71:16.5]Franke, Wolfgang. “Browning's ‘Pied Piper of Hamelin’: Two Levels of Meaning.” Ariel, 2 (10 1971), 90–97. The poem is a commentary upon the Victorian poet's ambiguous relationship to social and political problems of the day.Google Scholar

C71:17]Gervais, Claude. “The Victorian Love-Sonnet Sequence.” Dissertation Abstracts, 32 (1971), 964–65A (Univ. of Toronto). Includes discussion of Sonnets from the Portuguese.Google Scholar

C71:18]Haight, Gordon S. “Robert Browning's Widows.” Times Literary Supplement, 2 07 1971, pp. 783–84. RB's various flirtations after EBB's deathGoogle Scholar

C71:19]Hancher, Michael. “Browning and the Poetical Works of 1888–89.” Browning Newsletter, No. 6 (Spring, 1971), pp. 25–27. Excerpts quoted from RB's unpublished letters to his publisher, George M. Smith.Google Scholar

C71:20]Hancher, Michael. “The Dramatic Structure in Browning's ‘Pauline.’” Yearbook of English Studies, 1 (1971), 149–59. An analysis of the poem from the perspective of RB's own comments on it.Google Scholar

C71:21]Hart, Nathaniel I. “Browning's ‘The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church.’” Explicator, 29 (1971), Item 36. “Browning's poem is not so much about a dying man's futile efforts to find stability in ‘a world which cannot hold together’ as it is about a vain man's effort to evade that fate which awaits us all—the dissolution of the body in death.”Google Scholar

C71:22]Honan, Park. “Browning, The Ring and the Book, and Two British Novelists of the 1960's and 1970's.” Browning Newsletter, No. 7 (Fall, 1971), p. 44. The novelists are David Lodge and B. S. Johnson.Google Scholar

C71:23]Howard, Richard. Findings. New York: Athenaeum, 1971. “November, 1889” (pp. 34–47) is a dramatic monologue in which RB reflects upon his past shortly before his death in Venice.Google Scholar

C71:24]Jones, Maebelle L. “The Terrible Choice, Judgment and the Image of Ascent in Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book.” Dissertation Abstracts, 31 (1971), 3506A (Indiana Univ.). “This paper suggests that the image of ascent provides a signal from Browning that clarifies the position and resultant value judgments of the several speakers in the poem.”Google Scholar

C71:25]Kaye, Dena. “History's Love Stories: Down Heartthrob Lane with Kleenex and Camera.” Saturday Review, 13 03 1971, pp. 38–39, 63–64, 69–70. Includes discussion of the Brownings' courtship and marriage.Google Scholar

C71:26]Kelley, Philip. “S.O.S. for Casa Guidi” (letter). New York Times Book Review, 4 04 1971, p. 24. Appeal for further contributions to Casa Guidi Campaign.Google Scholar

C71:27]Kelly, Richard. “The Dramatic Relationship Between ‘By the Fire-Side’ and ‘Any Wife to Any Husband.’” Victorian Newsletter, No. 39 (Spring, 1971), pp. 20–21. The dramatic relationship of these companion poems consists of the “rational response” of “Any Wife to Any Husband” to the “lyric emotionalism” of “By the Fire-Side.”Google Scholar

C71:28]Kimball, Jim C. “The Two Saints'” Browning Newsletter, No. 7 (Fall, 1971), pp. 47–48. Description of two oil paintings in the Armstrong Browning Library that are believed to have hung in the salon of Casa Guidi.Google Scholar

C71:29]Knight, G. Wilson. Neglected Powers: Essays on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1971. Chap. 8 is entitled “Poetry and the Arts: Tennyson, Browning, O'Shaughnessy, Yeats.”Google Scholar

C71:30]Krause, Florence P. “The Grammatical Aspect of Browning's Style.” Dissertation Abstracts, 32 (1971), 412–13A (Univ. of Tennessee). “One hundred twenty sentences from Browning's works, selected by random sampling, were broken into their kernels to determine how many words Browning customarily used to develop a kernel into a surface structure.”Google Scholar

C71:31]Landwehr, Alfred W. “The Sense of Place in Robert Browning's Dramatic Monologues.” Dissertation Abstracts, 31 (1971), 5367A (Univ. of Missouri). “It is the purpose of this study to illustrate that Browning's development of setting in the dramatic monologue is a major contribution to the genre.” Detailed analyses of “My Last Duchess,” “The Bishop Orders His Tomb,” “Andrea del Sarto,” “Fra Lippo Lippi,” and The Ring and the Book.Google Scholar

C71:32]Langbaum, Robert. [Rev. of Untitled Subjects (1969) by Richard Howard.] Victorian Poetry, 9 (1971), 467–71. “… the volume is mostly made up of dramatic monologues in Browning's style and deals with nineteenth-century literary and artistic figures.”Google Scholar

C71:33]Lawson, Everett L. “Very Sure of God: Religious Language in the Poetry of Robert Browning.” Dissertation Abstracts, 31 (1971), 5411A (Vanderbilt Univ.). A study of RB's use of the word God and “a reading of Browning's religious poems in light of twentieth-century developments in theology.”Google Scholar

C71:33.5]Lucas, John, ed. Literature and Politics in the Nineteenth Century. London: Methuen, 1971. Lucas' essay “Politics and the Poet's Role” (pp. 7–43) discusses the political attitudes of both Brownings.Google Scholar

C71:34]Luedecke, Margaret A. “The Reconciliation of the Ideal and Real in Browning's Poetry.” Dissertation Abstracts, 31 (1971), 3511A (Univ. of Texas at Austin). “The reconciling means are considered in this study under major chapters on intuition, love, and growth.”Google Scholar

C71:35]McCarthy, John F. “Browning's ‘Waring’: The Real Subject of the ‘Fancy Portrait.’” Victorian Poetry, 9 (1971), 371–82. The poem examined in relation to RB's letters to Alfred Domett, the Essay on Chatterton, and “My Last Duchess.”Google Scholar

C71:36]Magie, Michael L. “The Verse-Novel: Bastard Child of the Nineteenth Century.” Dissertation Abstracts, 32 (1971), 3313A (Univ. of California at Los Angeles). Aurora Leigh treated.Google Scholar

C71:37]Millhauser, Milton. “Robert Browning, Robert Chambers, and Mr.Home, the Medium.” Victorian Newsletter, No. 39 (Spring, 1971), pp. 15–19. Argues that Robert Chambers, author of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and quasi-disciple of Daniel Douglass Home, was in RB's mind as he sketched out Sludge's arguments and portrayed certain of his adherents.Google Scholar

C71:38]Monteiro, George. “Browning, Valla, and the ‘Triton Among Minnows.’” Browning Newsletter, No. 7 (Fall, 1971), p. 43. A possible source for “A Grammarian's Funeral.”Google Scholar

C71:39]Peck, Mary A. “The Drama of Shelley and Browning: A Comparative Study.” Dissertation Abstracts, 32 (1971), 395A (Miami Univ.).“Browning's stage plays are treated for their value in demonstrating (1) Browning's gradual attainment of those character-revealing techniques (imagery, diction, rhythm, syntax) which make him an acknowledged master of the dramatic monologue; (2) his gradual recognition that the stage was for him an inadequate medium for the expression of ‘Action in Character’; and (3) the differences between Browning's and Shelley's use of the theme of political oppression and between their dramatic skills.”Google Scholar

C71:40]Peterson, William S. “Robert Browning and Mrs. Humphry Ward.” Browning Newsletter, No. 7 (Fall, 1971), pp. 13–14. References to RB in Mrs. Ward's unpublished letters.Google Scholar

C71:41]Pinion, F. B. “Hardy, Browning and the Iris-Bow” (letter). Times Literary Supplement, 29 01 1971, p. 127. On the use of the iris-bow image in their poetry.Google Scholar

C71:42]Siegchrist, Mark S. “Robert Browning's Poetry, 1870–1875.” Dissertation Abstracts, 31 (1971), 5375A (Univ. of Pennsylvania). “This thesis is a study of the six long poems Browning wrote directly after The Ring and the Book—Balaustion's Adventure, Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Fifine at the Fair, Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, and The Inn Album.”Google Scholar

C71:43]Smith, Charles W. “A Critical Introduction to Robert Browning's Strafford.” Dissertation Abstracts, 32 (1971), 3271A (Univ. of Maryland). Suggests that the 1863 text of Strafford is “both aesthetically the best and psychologically the most interesting.”Google Scholar

C71:44]Smithey, Robert A. “Coleridgean Elements in Browning's The Ring and the Book.” Dissertation Abstracts, 32 (1971), 2070A (Univ. of Wisconsin). “…there is a definite affinity between Browning's literary credo announced in Book I of The Ring and the Book and Coleridge's literary credo expressed in Biographia Literaria, the Lectures on Shakespeare, The Friend, and his other critical works.”Google Scholar

C71:45]Taylor, Robert. “Browning Shrine in Florence May Fall to Wrecking Crew.” Boston Sunday Globe, 11 04 1971, p. 48A. On Casa Guidi.Google Scholar

C71:46]Turner, W. Craig. “Robert Browning and His Kinsfolk, by His Cousin, Cyrus Mason.” Browning Newsletter, No. 7 (Fall, 1971), pp. 9–12. Description of MS biographical narrative by Mason in the Armstrong Browning Library.Google Scholar

C71:47]Whiteley, Carl. “Browning's Forefathers May Not Have Been So Rude.” Bournemouth Evening Echo, 31 12 1971. Evidence about RB's ancestors in the records of Pentridge Church.Google Scholar