Dramatic Romances and Lyrics

Dramatic Romances and Lyrics is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1845 in London, as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books entitled Bells and Pomegranates. ^[1]

Contents

Many of the original titles given by Browning to the poems in this collection, as with its predecessor Dramatic Lyrics , are different from the ones he later gave them in various editions of his collected works. Since this book was originally self-published in a very small edition, these poems really only came to prominence in the later collections, and so the later titles are given here; see the bottom of the page for a list of the originals.

• "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"
• Pictor Ignotus
• The Italian in England
• The Englishman in Italy
• The Lost Leader
• The Lost Mistress
• Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
• Home-Thoughts, from the Sea
• Nationality in Drinks
• The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church
• Garden-Fancies:
  • The Flower's Name
  • Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis
• The Laboratory
• The Confessional
• The Flight of the Duchess
• Earth's Immortalities:
  • Fame
  • Love
• Song
• The Boy and the Angel
• Meeting at Night
• Parting at Morning
• Saul
• Time's Revenges
• The Glove

First Edition Titles

• 'How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix' (16--)
• Pictor Ignotus (Florence, 15--)
• Italy in England
• England in Italy (Piano di Sorrento)
• The Lost Leader
• The Lost Mistress
• Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
• The Tomb at St. Praxed's (Rome, 15--)
• Garden Fancies
  • I. The Flower's Name
  • II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis
• France and Spain
  • I. The Laboratory (Ancien Regime)
  • II. Spain—The Confessional
• The Flight of the Duchess
• Earth's Immortalities
• Song ('Nay but you, who do not love her')
• The Boy and the Angel
• Night and Morning
  • I. Night
  • II. Morning
• Claret and Tokay

  Claret and Tokay here became the first two parts of a longer work, Nationality in Drinks^{[ vague ]}

• Saul (Part I)
• Time's Revenges
• The Glove (Peter Ronsard loquitur)

References

1. "Dramatic Romances and Lyrics". Oxford Reference. Retrieved December 12, 2024.