Later Poems 1876-1889

By: Robert Browning

Narrated by: Evan Blackmore, Marie Blackmore

Later Poems 1876-1889

By Robert Browning

Narrated by Evan and Marie Blackmore

Here are the best-loved poems from the final phase of Robert Browning's long and ever-productive career—sharp-eyed and quick-witted, brimming with zest and verve and sparkle, yet equally keen to probe the "bad dreams," the dim-seen, sinister crannies within the human soul.

Contents:

01: Introduction;

02: House;

03: Shop;

04-05: Pisgah-Sights;

06-07: Natural Magic;

08: Magical Nature;

09-10: Numpholeptos;

11-12: St Martin's Summer;

13: Pan and Luna;

14: Touch him ne'er so lightly;

15-16: Wanting is -- what?;

17: Never the Time and the Place;

18: Prologue to Asolando;

19: Dubiety;

20: Now;

21: Humility;

22: Poetics;

23: Summum Bonum;

24: A Pearl, a Girl;

25: Speculative;

26: White Witchcraft;

27-28: Bad Dreams;

29: Inapprehensiveness;

30: The Pope and the Net;

31: The Lady and the Painter;

32: Flute-Music, with an Accompaniment;

33-34: "Imperante Augusto Natus est --";

35: Development;

36: Rephan;

37-38: Reverie;

39: Epilogue to Asolando.

Cover image: Browning's favorite Italian town, Asolo, in 1893.

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