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Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: An Annotated Bibliography for 1975

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A. PRIMARY WORKS

A75:1]A Tocatta of Galuppi's. Mit fünf Radierungen von Paul Eliasberg. New York: E. Rathenau, 1974. pp. 15.*Google Scholar
A75:2]Berridge, Elizabeth, ed. The Barretts at Hope End. [See A74:1.] ▪ Rev. by David Williams, Times (London), 29 July 1974, p. 7; Jill Neville, Sunday Times (London), 1 Sept. 1974, p. 32;Google Scholar
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A75:3]Harper, J. W., ed. Men and Woman and Other Poems. (Everyman's University Library.) London: Dent, 1975. pp. xx + 244.*Google Scholar
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A75:4]Heydon, Peter N., and Philip, Kelley, eds. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy. [See A73:11.]Google Scholar
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A75:6]Litzinger, Boyd, ed. The Letters of Robert Browning to Frederick and Nina Lehmann, 1863–1889. (Baylor Browning Interests, No. 24.) Waco, Tex.: Armstrong Browning Library, 1975. pp. 39. ▪ 32 letters, approximately half of which are previously unpublished.Google Scholar
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A75:7]Pope, Willard B., ed. Invisible Friends. [See A72:4.]Google Scholar
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B. REFERENCE AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL WORKS AND EXHIBITIONS

B75:1] “Comments and Queries.” SIB, 3 (Fall, 1975), 132–33. ▪ James F. Loucks comments on some textual emendations needed in RB's poems.Google Scholar
B75:2] “Desiderata for Browning Scholarship.” SIB, 3 (Fall, 1975), 135–36.Google Scholar
B75:3] “Doctoral Dissertations in Progress.” SIB, 3 (Spring, 1975), 132–33.Google Scholar
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B75:6]Freeman, Ronald E.A Checklist of Publications (July 1974–December 1974).” SIB, 3 (Spring, 1975), 102–07.Google Scholar
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B75:8]Gordon, John D.Joint Lives: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. With a Foreword by Szladits, Lola D.. New York: New York Public Library and Readex Books, 1975. pp. 40. ▪ Catalogue of a major Browning exhibition from materials in the Berg Collection, first mounted in 1946. On display May-November 1975. See also Israel Shenker, “Brownings' Lives, Love and Lyrics Illuminated in Public Library Show,” New York Times, 2 May 1975, p. 37.Google Scholar
B75:9]Herring, Jack W.The Armstrong Browning Library.” British Studies Monitor, 5 (1975), 3840. ▪ Brief survey of the library's holdings.Google Scholar
B75:10]Hudson, Gladys W., comp. An Elizabeth Barrett Browning Concordance. [See B73:9.]Google Scholar
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B75:11]King, Roma A. Jr. “Robert Browning.” VP, 13 (1975), 149–55. ▪ Review of scholarship in 1974.Google Scholar
B75:12]Meredith, Michael. “The Wounded Heroine: Elizabeth Barrett's Sophocles.” SIB, 3 (Fall, 1975), 112. ▪ An analysis of EBB's marginalia in her copy of Sophocles.Google Scholar
B75:13]Peterson, William S.The Proofs of Browning's Men and Women.” SIB, 3 (Fall, 1975), 2339. ▪ A discussion of variant readings in the proofs, which are in the Huntington Library.Google Scholar
B75:14]Peterson, , Robert, William S. and Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. [See B74:21.]Google Scholar
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B75:17]Pine-Coffin, R. S.Bibliography of British and American Travel in Italy to 1860. (Biblioteca di bibliografia Italiana, LXXVI.) Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1974. ▪ See index.Google Scholar
B75:18] “Purefoy FitzGerald Collection Acquired by Armstrong Browning Library.” Armstrong Browning Library Newsletter, No. 13 (Fall, 1975), pp. 12. ▪ A major collection of Browning material that includes correspondence, inscribed books, photographs, etc. See also “Purefoy FitzGerald Collection Shows Browning at Shalstone Manor Farm,” Armstrong Browning Library Newsletter, No. 14 (Spring, 1976), p. 2.Google Scholar
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C. BIOGRAPHY, CRITICISM, AND MISCELLANEOUS

C75:1]Aiken, Susan H.On Clothes and Heroes: Carlyle and ‘How It Strikes a Contemporary.’VP, 13 (1975), 99109. ▪ The poem is filled with Carlylean language and ideas.Google Scholar
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C75:3]Allen, Frank. “Sex and the Dreaming Egotist: A Reading of ‘Love Among the Ruins.’BSN, 5 (03 1975), 814. ▪ The poem is “an exploration of the sexual and emotional motivation of a real individual as opposed to a one-dimensional idealized statement about love [‘Love is best’].”Google Scholar
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C75:11]Boyd, John D.Browning's ‘Meeting at Night’ and ‘Parting at Morning.’BSN, 5 (12 1975), 1420. ▪ A close analysis, with emphasis on the erotic imagery.Google Scholar
C75:12] “The Burial of Mr. Browning.” BIS, 3 (1975), 119–30. ▪ A contemporary account reprinted from the Pall Mall Gazette. Illustrated.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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C75:16]Connes, George. “Browningiana.” Études anglaises, 27 (1974), 334–42. ▪ Describes some Browning association items formerly owned by the late grandson of Joseph Milsand, including an illustrated version of “Mr. Sludge” by RB's father. (Illustrated.)Google Scholar
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C75:18]Corson, Hiram. “A Few Reminiscences of Robert Browning.” BIS, 3 (1975), 6178. ▪ Corson knew RB well during the 1880's. Reprinted from the Cornell Era (1908).Google Scholar
C75:19]Coventry, Frank. “Browning's Orthodoxy.” BSN, 5 (12 1975), 2026. ▪ “If … we take ‘orthodox Christian’ in a broad and general sense, there can be no doubt that Browning was such, both as man and poet” (p. 20).Google Scholar
C75:20]Culler, A. Dwight. “Monodrama and the Dramatic Monologue.” Publications of the Modern Language Association, 90 (1975), 366–85. ▪ The two forms are different from each other: the monodrama is characterized by passionate, operatic intensity of tone, whereas the dramatic monologue individualizes the speaker and tends to be more ironic.Google Scholar
C75:21]Dahl, Curtis, and Brewer, Jennifer L.. “Browning's ‘Saul’ and the Fourfold Vision: A Neoplatonic-Hermetic Approach.” BIS, 3 (1975), 101–18. ▪ The poem's structure analyzed in relation to the Neoplatonic tradition of four stages of mystical vision. See also a brief related note by Dahl, SIB, 3 (Spring, 1975), 128.Google Scholar
C75:22]Dooley, Alan C.The ‘Guelph’ in ‘The Statue and the Bust.’SIB, 3 (Spring, 1975), 129. ▪ The reference in 1. 234 is to a Florentine coin.Google Scholar
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C75:24]Drew, Philip. “‘The Raw Material of Moral Sentiment’: Another View of “Ivàn Ivànovitch.’BSN, 5 (July 1975), 36. ▪ “… the poem takes its place in the central ethical debate of Victorian England, that between Intuitionist and Utilitarian schools of morality” (p. 4).Google Scholar
C75:25]Dupras, Joseph A.‘Immeasurable Metamorphosis’: Rite and Apology in Book X of The Ring and the Book.” SIB, 3 (Fall, 1975), 104–17. ▪ The Pope expounds the necessity of spiritual rebirth.Google Scholar
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C75:28]Felgar, Robert. “Browning's Narrative Art.” SIB, 3 (Fall, 1975), 8194. ▪ Survey of RB's narrative techniques.Google Scholar
C75:29]Franke, Wolfgang. “‘Halbert and Hob’: Browning at Wuthering Heights.” BSN, 5 (12 1975), 38. ▪ The poem is set in the north of England because “the Victorian imagination contrived to transform even the industrial north into a kind of residual saga-world of heathen amorality” (P. 7).Google Scholar
C75:30]Garrett, Marvin P.Language and Design in Pippa Passes.” VP, 13 (1975), 4760. ▪ Images of rebirth in the poem.Google Scholar
C75:31]Gilbert, William H.Browning's Pauline: The Case for Shelley's Influence.” DAI, 35 (1975), 5343A (Duke Univ.). ▪ The poem is consciously dramatic rather than lyric and is heavily influenced by Shelley's “Epipsychidion.”Google Scholar
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C75:34]Guiliano, Edward F. “Casa Guidi” (letter). New York Times, 25 05 1975, Sec. 10, pp. 5, 19. ▪ A reminder that Casa Guidi is now open to visitors.Google Scholar
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C75:38]Hannaford, Richard. “Robert Browning and Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders.” SIB, 3 (Spring, 1975), 117–20. ▪ Hardy quotes “The Statue and the Bust.”Google Scholar
C75:39]Harris, Wendell V.Browning's Caliban, Plato's Cosmogony, and Bentham on Natural Religion.” SIB, 3 (Fall, 1975), 95103. ▪ “To place the poem [‘Caliban upon Setebos’] in the widest context one must go back to Plato; on the other hand, the nineteenth-century work which comments most directly on the logic which leads Caliban to conclude that Setebos is capricious, unloving, and vengeful may well be one written by Jeremy Bentham” (p. 96).Google Scholar
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C75:58]Kelly, Edward E.Porphyria's Lover: Fantasizer, Not Speaker.” SIB, 3 (Fall, 1975), 126–28. ▪ The man in “Porphyria's Lover” is thinking or fantasizing rather than speaking.Google Scholar
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C75:60]Kincaid, Arthur. “Drama Review.” BSN, 5 (12 1975), 2026. ▪ Review of The Friendship of Mrs. Eckley by Ronald Gow, which premièred at Cheltenham, England, on 29 Oct. It is based on EBB's letters to Sophia Eckley (in the Berg Collection) and attempts to explain EBB's preoccupation with spiritualism.Google Scholar
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