ROBERT BROWNING


CONTENTS
Introduction (by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke)
"Transcendentalism: A Poem in Twelve Books"
How It Strikes a Contemporary
Artemis Prologizes
An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab
Physician
Johannes Agricola in Meditation
Pictor Ignotus
Fra Lippo Lippi
Andrea del Sarto
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
Bishop Blougram's Apology
Cleon
Rudel to the Lady of Tripoli
One Word More


INTRODUCTION

Thirteen years after the publication, in 1855, of the Poems, in two
volumes, entitled "Men and Women," Browning reviewed his work and
made an interesting reclassification of it. He separated the
simpler pieces of a lyric or epic cast--such rhymed presentations
of an emotional moment, for example, as "Mesmerism" and "A Woman's
Last Word," or the picturesque rhymed verse telling a story of an
experience, such as "Childe Roland" and "The Statue and the