LOVE AND MARRIAGE

First letters to Miss Barrett--Meeting--Progress in
friendship--Obstacles--Marriage


CHAPTER VI

EARLY YEARS IN ITALY

Correspondence of R.B. and E.B.B.--Journey to
Italy--Pisa--Florence--Vallombrosa--Italian politics--Casa
Guidi-Friends--Son born--Death of Browning's mother--Wanderings.

CHAPTER VII

CHRISTMAS EVE AND EASTER DAY

Publication--Movements of Religious
Thought--Dissent--Catholicism--Criticism--Difficulties of Christian
life--Imaginative power of the poems--In Venice--Paris--England--Paris
again--Coup d'état


CHAPTER VIII

FROM 1851 TO 1855

Essay on Shelley--New acquaintances--Milsand--George Sand--London--Casa
Guidi--Spiritualism--Mr Sludge the Medium--Baths of