A canonical Victorian writer and thinker, Barrett Browning personified the engaged intellectual. This edition provides a foundation for a complete analysis and interpretation of her works – and of Victorian Britain. The edition presents accurate and accessible texts of all her published literary works.

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Cover Page
Half Title page
Editorial Team
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
31 Crowned and Wedded
32 Crowned and Buried
33 To Flush, My Dog
34 The Deserted Garden
35 My Doves
36 Hector in the Garden
37 Sleeping and Watching
38 Sounds
Sonnets
39 The Soul's Expression
40 The Seraph and Poet
41 Bereavement
42 Consolation
43 to Mary Russell Mitford in Her Garden
44 on a Portrait of Wordsworth by B. R. Haydon
45 Past and Future
46 Irreparableness
47 Tears
48 Grief
49 Substitution
50 Comfort
51 Perplexed Music. Affectionately Inscribed to E. J.
52 Work
53 Futurity
54 the Two Sayings
55 the Look
56 The Meaning of the Look
57 A Thought for a Lonely Death-Bed. Inscribed to My Friend E. C.
58 Work and Contemplation
59 Pain in Pleasure
60 Flush or Faunus
61 Finite and Infinite
62 An Apprehension
63 Discontent
64 Patience Taught by Nature
65 Cheerfulness Taught by Reason
66 Exaggeration
67 Adequacy
68 To George Sand. a Desire
69 To George Sand. A Recognition
70 The Prisoner
71 Insufficiency
72 Two Sketches. H. B. I
73 [Two Sketches.] A. B. II
74 Mountaineer and Poet
75 the Poet
76 Hiram Powers' Greek Slave
77 Life
78 Love
79 Heaven and Earth
80 The Prospect
81 Hugh Stuart Boyd. His Blindness
82 Hugh Stuart Boyd. His Death, 1848
83 Hugh Stuart Boyd. Legacies
84 The Lost Bower
85 a Song against Singing. To E. J. H.
86 Wine of Cyprus. Given To Me By H. S. Boyd, Author of ‘Select Passages From The Greek Fathers’, Etc., To Whom These Stanzas Are Addressed
87 A Rhapsody of Life's Progress
88 A Lay of the Early Rose
89 The Poet and the Bird: A Fable
90 The Cry of the Human
91 A Portrait
92 Confessions
93 Loved Once
94 The House of Clouds
95 A Sabbath Morning at Sea
96 A Flower in a Letter
97 The Mask
98 Calls on the Heart
99 Wisdom Unapplied
100 Memory and Hope
101 Human Life's Mystery
102 A Child's Thought of God
103 The Claim
104 Song of the Rose: Attributed to Sappho (From Achilles Tatius)
105 A Dead Rose
106 The Exile's Return
107 The Sleep
108 The Measure
109 Cowper's Grave
110 The Weakest Thing
111 The Pet-Name
112 The Mourning Mother (Of The Dead Blind)
113 A Valediction
114 Lessons from the Gorse
115 The Lady's Yes
116 A Woman's Shortcomings
117 A Man's Requirements
118 A Year's Spinning
119 Change upon Change
120 That Day
121 A Reed
122 The Dead Pan
123 A Child's Grave at Florence
124 Catarina to Camoens; Dying in His Absence Abroad, and Referring to the Poem in Which He Recorded the Sweetness of Her Eyes
125 Life and Love
126 A Denial
127 Proof and Disproof
128 Question and Answer
129 Inclusions
130 Insufficiency
131–74 Sonnets from the Portuguese
175 Casa Guidi Windows
Appendix I: 1844/5 Prefaces to Poems
Appendix II Tables of Contents of Book-Length Publications

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