Collection of poems by Robert Browning
Dramatic Lyrics is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning , first published in 1842 as the third volume in a series of self-published books entitled Bells and Pomegranates . It is most famous as the first appearance of Browning's poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin , but also contains several of the poet's other best-known pieces, including My Last Duchess , Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister , Porphyria's Lover , and Johannes Agricola in Meditation .
Many of the original titles given by Browning to the poems in this collection, as with its "follow-up" collection Dramatic Romances and Lyrics , are different from the ones he later gave them in various editions of his collected works.[citation needed ] Since this book was originally self-published in a very small edition, these poems are now always referred to by their later titles.
Original titles Later titles Cavalier Tunes — Marching Along Give a Rouse My Wife Gertrude Cavalier Tunes — Marching Along Give a Rouse Boot and Saddle Italy and France — Camp and Cloister — Camp (French) Cloister (Spanish) In a Gondola Artemis Prologizes Waring Queen-Worship — Rudel and the Lady of Tripoli Cristina Madhouse Cells — Through the Metidja to Abd-El-Kadr, 1842 The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Plays Poetry collections and poems Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession (1833) Paracelsus (1835) "Porphyria's Lover " (1836) "Johannes Agricola in Meditation " (1836) Sordello (1840) Dramatic Lyrics (1842, "My Last Duchess ", "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister ", "Count Gismond ") Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845, "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad ", "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix ", "Meeting at Night ", "The Laboratory ", "The Lost Leader ") Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day (1850) Men and Women (1855, "Love Among the Ruins" , "Evelyn Hope ", "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came ", "Andrea del Sarto ", "Fra Lippo Lippi ", "A Toccata of Galuppi's ") Dramatis Personæ (1864, "Rabbi ben Ezra ", "Caliban upon Setebos ") The Ring and the Book (1868–9) Balaustion's Adventure (1871) Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society (1871) Fifine at the Fair (1872) Red Cotton Night-Cap Country (1873) Aristophanes' Apology (1875) The Inn Album (1875) Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper (1876) The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1877) La Saisiaz and The Two Poets of Croisic (1878) Dramatic Idyls (1879, 1880) Jocoseria (1883) Ferishtah's Fancies (1884) Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day (1887) Asolando (1889) Related Family life