With Browning's knaves we have always this eternal interest, that they are real somewhere, and may at any moment begin to speak poetry.

We are talking to a peevish and garrulous sneak; we are watching the play of his paltry features, his evasive eyes, and babbling lips.

And suddenly the face begins to change and harden, the eyes glare like the eyes of a mask, the whole face of clay becomes a common mouthpiece, and the voice that comes forth is the voice of God, uttering His everlasting soliloquy.
INDEX A _Agamemnon of Aeschylus, The_, 120.
Alliance, The Holy, 89.
"Andrea del Sarto," 83.
_Aristophanes' Apology_, 120, 199.
Arnold, Matthew, 41, 55, 56.
_Asolando_, 132.
Asolo (Italy), 42, 131.
"At the Mermaid," 117.
Austria, 88, 89.
B "Bad Dreams," 138.
_Balaustion's Adventure_, 119-120.
Barrett, Arabella, 74, 119.
Barrett, Edward Moulton, 58 _seq._, 70, 73, 74, 76, 79.
Beardsley, Mr.Aubrey, 149.
_Bells and Pomegranates_, 105.
"Ben Ezra," 23, 201.
Birrell, Mr.Augustine, 160.
"Bishop Blougram," 51, 189.
_Bishop Blougram's Apology_, 188, 189, 199, 200.
_Blot on the 'Scutcheon, A_, 53.
Boyd, Mr., 62.
Browning, Robert: birth and family history, 3; theories as to his descent, 4-8; a typical Englishman of the middle class, 9; his immediate ancestors, 10 _seq._; education, 12; boyhood and youth, 17; first poems, _Incondita_, 17; romantic spirit, 18; publication of _Pauline_, 20; friendship with literary men, 21; _Paracelsus_, 22; introduction to literary world, 25; his earliest admirers, 26; friendship with Carlyle, 26; _Strafford_, 27; _Sordello_, 34; _Pippa Passes_, 43; _Dramatic Lyrics_, 45; _The Return of the Druses_, 51; _A Blot on the 'Scutcheon_, 53; correspondence with Elizabeth Barrett, 62 _seq._; their first meeting, 70; marriage and elopement, 78, 79; life in Italy, 81 _seq._; love of Italy, 82, 85 _seq._; sympathy with Italian Revolution, 90; attitude towards spiritualism, 91 _seq._, 113, 190-199; death of his wife, 103; returns to England, 105; _The Ring and the Book_, 110; culmination of his literary fame, 110, 117; life in society, 110; elected Fellow of Balliol, 117; honoured by the great Universities, 118; _Balaustion's Adventure_, 119-120; _Aristophanes' Apology_, 120; _The Agamemnon of Aeschylus_, 120; _Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau_, 121; _Red-Cotton Night-Cap Country_, 122; _Fifine at the Fair_, 124; _The Inn Album_, 125; _Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper_, 125; _La Saisiaz_, 127; _The Two Poets of Croisic_, 127; _Dramatic Idylls_, 127; _Jocoseria_, 127; _Ferishtah's Fancies_, 127; _Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day_, 128; accepts post of Foreign Correspondent to the Royal Academy, 129; goes to Llangollen with his sister, 130; last journey to Italy, 130; death at Venice, 132; publication of _Asolando_, 132; his conversation, 36; vanity, 33, 36; faults and virtues, 40, 55; his interest in Art, 82 _seq._; his varied accomplishments, 84-85; personality and presence, 18, 33, 112 _seq._; his prejudices, 113-116; his occasional coarseness, 116; politics, 86 _seq._; Browning as a father, 105; as dramatist, 52; as a literary artist, 133 _seq._; his use of the grotesque, 48, 140, 143, 148 _seq._; his failures, 141; artistic originality, 136, 143, 158; keen sense of melody and rhythm, 145 _seq._; ingenuity in rhyming, 152; his buffoonery, 154; obscurity, 154 _seq._; his conception of the Universe, 175; philosophy, 177 _seq._; optimism, 179 _seq._; his love poetry, 49; his knaves, 51, 201-202; the key to his casuistical monologues, 199.
_Browning, Life of_ (Mrs.Orr), 92.
Browning, Robert (father of the poet), 10, 119.
Browning, Mrs., _nee_ Wiedermann (mother), 11, 82.
Browning, Anna (sister), 14, 105.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (wife), 57 _seq._, 91-99, 101, 103, 116, 119, 129, 131.
Browning Society, 129.
Burns, Robert, 169-170.
Byron, 11, 38, 141, 143.
Byronism, 19, 117.
C "Caliban," 9, 120.
"Caliban upon Setebos," 93, 135, 138.
Camberwell, 3, 8, 19.
"Caponsacchi," 108.
Carlyle, Thomas, 12, 16, 17, 26, 55, 56, 87, 115.
Carlyle, Mrs., 26.
"Cavalier Tunes," 46.
Cavour, 86, 90, 103.
Charles I., 28, 29.
Chaucer, 117.
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came," 159.
_Christmas Eve_, 105.
Church in Italy, The, 88.
"Clive," 127.
Clough, Arthur Hugh, 56.
_Colombe's Birthday_, 32.
Corelli, Miss Marie, 38.
Cromwell, Oliver, 73.
D Darwin, 23, 39.
Dickens, 16.
"Djabal," 51, 52.
Domett, Alfred, 21.
"Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis," 161.
_Dramatic Idylls_, 127.
_Dramatic Lyrics_, 45-50.
_Dramatis Personae_, 105.
Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan, 187, 188.
E _Edinburgh Review_, 122.
"Englishman in Italy, The," 150.
F "Fears and Scruples," 126, 138.
"Ferishtah's Fancies," 138.
_Fifine at the Fair_, 9, 13, 51, 124, 199.
Fitzgerald, Edward, 116, 131.
_Flight of the Duchess, The_, 18.
Florence, 81, 94.
Forster, John, 26.
Foster, John, 187, 188.
Fox, Mr.Johnson, 20.
Fox, Mrs.Bridell, 33.
"Fra Lippo,", 51.
_Fra Lippo Lippi_, 83, 199.
French Revolution, 87.
Furnivall, Dr., 7, 129.
G "Garden Fancies," 46.
Garibaldi, 86, 89.
Gilbert, W.S., 144.
Gissing, Mr.George, 165.
Gladstone, 117.
_Golden Treasury_ (Palgrave), 168.
Goldsmith, 169, 170.
Gordon, General, 90.
"Guido Franceschini," 106, 120, 200.
H Henley, Mr., 148.
"Heretic's Tragedy, The," 137.
Hickey, Miss E.H., 129.
"Holy Cross Day," 153.
Home, David (spiritualist), 93-97, 113, 190, 191.
Home, David, _Memoirs_ of, 93 _seq._ Horne, 26.
Houghton, Lord, 129.
"House," 138.
"Householder, The," 138.
"How they brought the good News from Ghent to Aix," 46.
_Hudibras_ (Butler), 57.
Hugo, Victor, 17.
Hunt, Leigh, 26.
I _Incondita_, 17.
_Inn Album, The_, 125.
_Instans Tyrannus_, 9.
Italy, 85 _seq._ Italian Revolution, 88 _seq._ "Ivan Ivanovitch," 127.
J Jameson, Mrs., 75.
Jerrold, Douglas, 34.
_Jocoseria_, 127.
Jowett, Dr., 118.
_Julius Caesar_ (Shakespeare), 28.
"Juris Doctor Bottinius," 161.
K Keats, 15, 16, 19, 137, 142.
Kenyon, Mr., 22, 58, 69-70, 74, 76.
_King Victor and King Charles_, 32.
Kipling, Rudyard, 142.
Kirkup, Seymour, 103.
L _L'Aiglon_, 28.
"Laboratory, The," 47, 143.
Landor, 26, 56, 93, 101-103.
_La Saisiaz_, 127.
_Letters, The Browning_, 63.
Liberalism, 86.
"Lines to Edward Fitzgerald," 131.
Llangollen, 130.
Lockhart, 112.
"Lost Leader, The," 46.
"Lover's Quarrel, A," 50.
"Luigi," 45.
Lytton, Lord (novelist), 91.
M Macready, 17, 27, 53.
Maeterlinck, 164, 184.
Manning, Cardinal, 91.
Mary Queen of Scots, 29.
"Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha," 147.
"May and Death." 21.
Mazzini, 89.
_Men and Women_, 105.
Meredith, George, 156, 165.
Mill, John Stuart, 26, 56.
Milsand, 119.
Milton, 137.
Monckton-Milnes, 26, 100.
_Mr.Sludge the Medium_, 82, 96, 120, 190-199.
"Muleykeh," 127.
"My Star," 138.
N "Nationality in Drinks," 46, 138.
Napoleon, 42, 89.
Napoleon III., 56, 92, 121.
"Never the Time and the Place," 127.
Newman, Cardinal, 193.
Norwood, 18.
O "Ode on the Intimations of Immortality" (Wordsworth), 136.
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" (Keats), 137.
"Old Masters in Florence," 177.
"One Word More," 65.
Orr, Mrs., 72.
P _Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper_, 125, 126, 152.
_Paracelsus_, 22, 25, 26, 41, 47, 158.
"Paracelsus," 24, 25.
Painting, Poems on, 83.
Palgrave, Francis, 117.
Paris, 94.
_Parleyings with certain Persons of Importance in their Day_, 22, 128, 158.
_Pauline_, 20, 21, 37, 41, 51.
"Pheidippides," 127.
Phelps (actor), 53.
"Pictor Ignotus," 83.
"Pied Piper of Hamelin, The," 153.
"Pippa," 45, 120.
_Pippa Passes_, 18, 45, 47, 51, 137.
Pisa, 81.
Pius IX., Church under, 88.
Plato, 21, 23.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 144.
Poetry, Pessimistic school of, 130.
"Pompilia," 201.
Pope, 11, 20, 57.
"Portrait, A," 138.
_Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau_, 121-122.
_Princess, The_ (Tennyson), 148.
"Prometheus Unbound" (Shelley), 137.
Prussia, 88, 89.
Puritans, 30.
Pym, 28, 30.
R "Rabbi Ben Ezra," 201.
_Red-Cotton Night-Cap Country_, 122-124.
_Return of the Druses, The_, 51-53.
Revolution, The French, 15; Italian, 90.
_Ring and the Book, The_, 85, 106, 109, 123, 137, 160-176.
Ripert-Monclar, Comte de, 22, 93.
Roman Church, 114, 187, 188.
Rossetti, 163.
Royalists, 30.
Ruskin, 16, 55, 56, 91, 115.
Russia, 88.
S Sand, George, 9, 94.
Santayana's, Mr., _Interpretations of Poetry and Religion_, 183-186.
"Sebald," 45.
Shakespeare, 17, 57.
Shakespeare Society, 129.
Sharp, Mr.William, 133.
Shaw, Mr.Bernard, 165.
Shelley, 15, 16, 17,19, 56, 136, 141, 143.
"Shop," 138.
"Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis," 138.
Silverthorne (Browning's cousin), 21.
"Sludge," 51, 52, 150, 189, 200.
Smith, Elder (publishers), 110.
"Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, The," 47.
"Sonnets from the Portuguese," 65.
_Sordello_, 23, 34, 42.
Speech, Free, 173.
Spenser, 142.
Spiritualism, 9, 91, 113, 190.
"Statue and the Bust, The," 109.
Sterne, 117.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 60, 114.
_Straford_, 27 _seq._, 37.
"Stafford," 28, 29, 30.
Swinburne, 56, 116, 142,143.
T _Tait's Magazine_, 20.
Talfourd, Sergeant, 26.
Tennyson, 27, 34, 55, 117, 141, 142, 143, 148.
Thackeray, Miss, 123.
"Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr," 46.
_Time's Revenges_, 9, 93.
Tolstoi, 115.
_Tristram Shandy_ (Sterne), 163.
_Two Poets of Croisic, The_, 127.
U University College, 14.
"Up jumped Tokay" (poem quoted), 140.
V Venice, 131.
Victor of Sardinia, King, 23.
Vogler, Abt, 23.
W _Water Babies_ (Kingsley), 8.
Watts, Mr.G.F., 112.
Whitman, Walt, 21, 43, 49, 114, 165, 184.
"Why I am a Liberal" (sonnet), 86.
Wiedermann, William, 12.
Wiseman, Cardinal, 188.
Wimbledon Common, 18.
Wordsworth, 69, 136, 141, 143.
Wordsworth Society, 129.
Y "Youth and Art," 50, 109.
Z Zola, 164.
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