(Selected from Dr. Frederick J. Furnivall’s ‘Bibliography of Robert Browning’, contained in ‘The Browning Society’s Papers’, Part I., with additions in Part II.)
1833. The Monthly Mag., N. S., V. 7, pp. 254-262: Review of ‘Pauline’, by W. J. Fox.
1835. The Examiner, Sept. 6, pp. 563-565: on ‘Paracelsus’, by John Forster.
1835. Monthly Repository, Nov., pp. 716-727: Review of ‘Paracelsus’, by W. J. Fox.
1836. New Monthly Mag., March, Vol. 46, pp. 289-308: ‘Evidences of a New Genius for Dramatic Poetry.—No. 1.’ On ‘Paracelsus’, by John Forster.
1837. Edinburgh Rev., July, Vol. 66, pp. 132-151: ‘Strafford’.
1848. N. A. Rev., April, Vol. 66, pp. 357-400: B.‘s ‘Plays and Poems’, by James Russell Lowell.
1849. Eclectic Rev., London, 4th S. V. 26, pp. 203-214: on 1. the ‘Poems’, 2 vols. 1849, and 2. ‘Sordello’, 1840. A sympathetic and excellent review.
1850. Massachusetts Quarterly Rev., No. XI. June, Art. IV. ‘Browning’s Poems’. 1. ‘Poems’, 2 vols., Boston, 1850. 2. ‘Christmas Eve’ and ‘Easter Day’, London, 1850.
1850. Littell’s Living Age, Vol. 25, pp. 403-409: on ‘Christmas Eve’ and ‘Easter Day’.
1857. The Christian Remembrancer, N. S., Vol. 39, pp. 361-390.
1861. North British Rev., May, pp. 350-374: on ‘The Poems and Plays of R. B.’, by F. H. Evans.
1863. Fraser’s Mag., Feb., pp. 240-256.
1863. The Eclectic Rev., No. 23, N. S., May, pp. 436-454.
1863. National Rev., Oct., Vol. 47, pp. 417-446. Poetical Works of R. B., 3 vols., 3d ed., by R. H. Hutton; republ. in Hutton’s ‘Literary Essays, 1871’.
1864. The Eclectic and Congregational Rev., July, pp. 61-72: on ‘Dramatis Personae’, by E. Paxton Hood.
1864. Edinburgh Rev., Oct., pp. 537-565: on ‘Poems’, 1863, and ‘Dramatis Personae’, 1864.
1864. National Rev., N. S., Nov., 1864; Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English Poetry; republ. in ‘Literary Studies’, by Walter Bagshot.
1865. Quarterly Rev., July, Vol. 118, pp. 77-105: on ‘Dramatis Personae’, 1864, and ‘Poems’, 3 vols., 1863.
1867. Contemporary Rev., Jan. and Feb., 1867, Vol. 4, pp. 1-15, 133-148. Thoughtful and able articles.
1867. Fraser’s Mag., Oct., pp. 518-530: ‘Sordello’, by Edward Dowden.
1868. Athenaeum, Dec. 26, pp. 875, 876: ‘The Ring and the Book’, Vol. 1. by Robert Buchanan; revised and publ. in his ‘Master Spirits’, 1873.
1868. Eclectic and Congregational Rev., Dec., Art. II. ‘Poetical Works’, 6 vols., 1868, by E. Paxton Hood. See under 1864.
1868. Essays on B.‘s poetry, by J. T. Nettleship.
1869. Athenaeum, March 20, pp. 399, 400: on ‘The Ring and the Book’, Vols. 2, 3, and 4.
1869. Fortnightly Rev., March, Vol. 5, N. S., pp. 331-343: on ‘The Ring and the Book’, by John Morley. An able and generous article.
1869. Quarterly Rev., April, pp. 328-359: on Mod. Eng. Poets; a few pages are on B.‘s poems and ‘The Ring and the Book’.
1869. Edinburgh Rev., July, Vol. 130, pp. 164-186: on ‘The Ring and the Book’.
1869. London Quarterly Rev., July, on B.‘s Poetry— all then published.
1869. N. Brit. Rev., Oct., pp. 97-128: B.‘s Latest Poetry (‘The Ring and the Book’).
1871. Saint Paul’s Mag., Dec., 1870, and Jan., 1871, Vol. 7, pp. 257-276, 377-397: ‘Poems’ and ‘The Ring and the Book’, by E. J. Hasell.
1871. Athenaeum, Aug. 12, pp. 199, 200: on ‘Balaustion’s Adventure’.
1871. Contemporary Rev., Sept., pp. 284-296, on ‘Balaustion’s Adventure’, by Matthew Browne (pseudonym).
1871. The Times, Oct. 6: a long review of ‘Balaustion’s Adventure’.
1871. ‘Our Living Poets: an Essay in Criticism’. By H. Buxton Forman. 4th chap. on B., pp. 103-152.
1871. Fortnightly Rev., Oct., Vol. 10, N. S., pp. 478-490: on ‘Balaustion’s Adventure’, by Sidney Colvin.
1871. The Dark Blue Mag., Oct. and Nov., Vol. 2, pp. 171-184, 305-319: ‘Browning as a Preacher’, by Miss E. Dickinson West. An admirable essay.
1872. Edinburgh Rev., Jan., Vol. 135, pp. 221-249: on ‘Balaustion’s Adventure’.
1872. Academy, Jan. 15: on ‘Hohenstiel-Schwangau’.
1872. Academy, July 1: on ‘Fifine at the Fair’, by F. Wedmore.
1873. Athenaeum, May 10: on ‘Red Cotton Night-Cap Country’.
1873. Academy, June 2: on ‘Red Cotton Night-Cap Country’, by G. A. Simcox.
1873. ‘Master Spirits’, by Robert Buchanan; contains, pp. 89-109, a revised reprint of the Athenaeum reviews of ‘The Ring and the Book’, Dec., 1869, and March, 1870.
1875. Academy, April 17: on ‘Aristophanes’ Apology’, by J. A. Symonds.
1875. Athenaeum, April 17, pp. 513, 514: on ‘Aristophanes’ Apology’.
1875. Athenaeum, Nov. 27, pp. 701, 702: on ‘The Inn Album’.
1876. Academy, July 29: on ‘Pacchiarotto’, by Edward Dowden.
1876. Macmillan’s Mag., Feb., Vol. 33, pp. 347-354: on ‘Inn Album’, by A. C. Bradley.
1876. ‘Victorian Poets. By Edmund Clarence Stedman’. Boston: 1876. Chap. IX., pp. 292-341, devoted to Browning.
1877. Academy, Nov. 3: on ‘The Agamemnon of Aeschylus’, by J. A. Symonds.
1878. Church Quarterly Rev., Oct., pp. 65-92: on B.‘s Poems, by the Hon. and Rev. Arthur Lyttleton. An article to be read by all students of Browning.
1878. Academy, June 1: on ‘La Saisiaz’, and ‘The Two Poets of Croisic’, by G. A. Simcox.
1878. Athenaeum, May 25, pp. 661-664: on ‘La Saisiaz’, by W. Theodore Watts.
1879. ‘Studies in Literature, 1789-1877. By Edward Dowden, LL.D.’ London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., pp. 191-239: ‘Mr. Tennyson and Mr. Browning. A comparative study’. Ranks with the very best of Browning criticisms.
1879. Athenaeum, May 10: on ‘Dramatic Idyls’, I., by Walter Theodore Watts.
1879. Academy, May 10: on ‘Dramatic Idyls’, I., by F. Wedmore.
1880. Athenaeum, July 10, pp. 39-41: on ‘Dramatic Idyls’, 2d S., by W. Th. Watts.
1881. Gentleman’s Mag., Dec., pp. 682-695: on ‘The Ring and the Book’, by James Thomson.
1881. Scribner’s Century Mag., Dec. 1, pp. 189-200: on ‘The Early Writings of R. B.’, by E. W. Gosse.
1881. The Cambridge Review, Dec. 7, Vol. 3, pp. 146, 147: a review of ‘Rabbi ben Ezra’ and ‘Abt Vogler’, by A. W.
Some of the most valuable criticism of Browning’s Poetry has been produced and published by The Browning Society of London, founded in 1881 by Dr. F. J. Furnivall, and still in active operation. Dr. Furnivall’s ‘Bibliography of Robert Browning’, occupying Part I. of ‘The Browning Society’s Papers’, and continued in Part II., is a storehouse of valuable information, of all kinds, pertaining to Browning’s Poetry, and to Browning the man. Every Browning student should possess a copy of it. The following papers, among others, have been published by the Society:—
Introductory Address to the Browning Society. By the Rev. J. Kirkman, M.A., Queen’s Coll., Cambridge, Oct. 28, 1881.
On ‘Pietro of Abano’ and the leading ideas of ‘Dramatic Idyls’, second series, 1880. By the Rev. J. Sharpe, M.A. Read Nov. 25, 1881.
On Browning’s ‘Fifine at the Fair’. By J. T. Nettleship, Esq. Read Feb. 24, 1882.
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