In seventeen volumes, copublished with Baylor University, this acclaimed series features annotated texts of all of Robert Browning s known writing. The series encompasses autobiography as well as influences bearing on Browning s life and career and aspects of Victorian thought and culture.?
The sixth in the projected seventeen-volume work, this volume covers the second half of "Men and Women" (1855), perhaps Browning's most famous collection, and the entirety of "Dramatis Personae" (1864), the first book Browning produced after the death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1861.
"Men and...

"The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume X" contains critical editions of "Balaustion's Adventure: Including a Transcript from Euripides and Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society." Both published in 1871, these two long poems take up a pair of subjects that held enduring fascination for Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: classical Greek literature and the career of Napoleon III, Emperor of France. "Balaustion's Adventure," which the poet characterized as merely a May-month amusement, was surprisingly successful with the reading public that paid more attention to Browning...