Abbreviations

B.	Robert Browning
EBB.	Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For books, the place of publication is London unless otherwise specified.

I Browning’s works

Sections 1, 2 and 3 list only those short titles which consist of dates or initials. References to individual poems included in this volume are either complete (e.g. My Star, Love in a Life) or use the first word or phrase of the title, omitting definite articles and apostrophes (e.g. Pippa for Pippa Passes, Patriot for The Patriot, Bishop Blougram for Bishop Blougram’s Apology). The full titles of these works can be identified from the Index of Titles and First Lines. References to individual poems not included in this volume, and to titles of books, are usually complete (Aristophanes’ Apology, Halbert and Hob), with the exception of one major work, The Ring and the Book, which is referred to as Ring; a few poems with very long titles are likewise referred to by their first word or phrase (e.g. Very Original Poem for Very Original Poem, Written with Even a Greater Endeavour Than Ordinary After Intelligibility, and Hitherto Only Published on the First Leaf of the Author’s Son’s Account-Book). The full titles of these works may be found in the alphabetical list of Browning’s works published as Appendix B in vol. I.

One case in particular requires mentioning. Browning’s 1887 collection Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day contains a number of poems which are headed ‘With’, the word ‘Parleying’ being understood: With Bernard de Mandeville, With George Bubb Dodington, With Christopher Smart, and so on. We use the short title Parleyings for the volume, and the names alone for the individual poems: Christopher Smart (Parleyings, 1887).

1 Collected works issued in Browning’s lifetime

1849	Poems, 2 vols (Chapman and Hall 1849)
1863	Poetical Works, 3 vols (Chapman and Hall 1863) [on title page: ‘Third Edition’]
1865	Poetical Works, 3 vols (Chapman and Hall 1865) [on title page: ‘Fourth Edition’]
1868	Poetical Works, 6 vols (Smith, Elder 1868)
1870	Poetical Works, 6 vols (Smith, Elder 1870)
1875	Poetical Works, 6 vols (Smith, Elder 1875)
1888	Poetical Works, 16 vols (Smith, Elder 1888–9)
1889	Poetical Works, 16 vols (Smith, Elder 1889)

Note 1865 is a revised reissue of 1863; 1870 and 1875 are revised reissues of 1868. 1889 is a partially revised reprint of 1888: before his death B. made corrections to the first ten volumes of 1888 as they appeared. Since their contents remained unchanged, these reissues are not separately listed in the textual history of each poem as it is given in the headnote, though significant variants are included in the notes.

2 Selections issued in Browning’s lifetime

18632	Selections from the Poetical Works (Chapman and Hall 1863)
18652	Selections from the Poetical Works (Moxon, 1865) [‘Moxon’s Miniature Poets’]
1872	Selections from the Poetical Works (Smith, Elder 1872)
1880	Selections from the Poetical Works, Second Series (Smith, Elder 1880)
1884	Selections from the Poetical Works, 2 vols (Smith, Elder 1884) [on title page of vol. i, ‘First Series’, on title page of vol. ii, ‘Second series’]

Note 1884 is a revised reissue of 1872 and 1880. As with the reissues of 1863 and 1868, we do not list 1884 separately in the textual history given in the headnote, but do record its significant variants.

3 Single volumes and collections of shorter poems issued in Browning’s lifetime

B & P	Bells and Pomegranates (see Appendix C., p. 883)
B & P BYU	B.’s copy of the one-volume Bells and Pomegranates (Brigham Young University)
B & P Domett	Alfred Domett’s copy of Bells and Pomegranates, with some MS corrections by B. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin)
CE & ED	Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day (Chapman and Hall 1850)
DI1	Dramatic Idyls (Smith, Elder 1879)
DI2	Dramatic Idyls, Second Series (Smith, Elder 1880)
DL	Dramatic Lyrics (Moxon, 1842) [Bells and Pomegranates iii]
DL 1st Proof	Corrected proof sheets of Dramatic Lyrics (Widener Library, Harvard)
DL 2nd Proof	Corrected proof sheets of Dramatic Lyrics (Widener Library, Harvard)
DP	Dramatis Personae (Chapman and Hall 1864)
DP2	Dramatis Personae, 2nd edition (Chapman and Hall 1864)
DR & L	Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (Moxon, 1845) [Bells and Pomegranates vii]
H proof	Proof copy of Men and Women, at Huntington Library
H proof 2	Copy of first edition of Men and Women with proof-readings, at Huntington Library
L & AST	Luria and A Soul’s Tragedy (1846) [Bells and Pomegranates viii]
LS & TPC	La Saisiaz and The Two Poets of Croisic (Smith, Elder 1878)
M & W	Men and Women, 2 vols (Chapman and Hall 1855); in textual notes 1855
1856	Men and Women (Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1856) [1st American edition; in one vol.]

Note for a description of H proof and H proof ², and a discussion of their significance in the textual history of M & W, (see Appendix C, III p. 742–3).

4 Subsequent editions

1894	Vol. xvii of 1889, consisting of Asolando and notes to the poems, ed. E. Berdoe
Centenary	The Works of Robert Browning, ed. F. G. Kenyon, 10 vols (Smith, Elder 1912)
Florentine	The Complete Works of Robert Browning, ed. C. Porter and H. A. Clarke, 12 vols (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell 1898)
New Poems	New Poems by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ed. F. G. Kenyon (Smith, Elder, 1914)
Ohio	The Complete Works of Robert Browning, gen. ed. Roma A. King Jr., Ohio University Press 1969–
Oxford	The Poetical Works of Robert Browning, gen. eds I. Jack, M. Meredith, Oxford University Press 1983– [Oxford English Texts]
Penguin	Robert Browning: The Poems, ed. John Pettigrew and Thomas J. Collins, 2 vols, Harmondsworth 1981 [Penguin English Poets; in USA, publ. by Yale University Press]
Turner	Men and Women, ed. Paul Turner (Oxford University Press 1972)

5 Browning’s Prose Writings

Chatterton	Review of R. H. Wilde, Conjectures and Researches Concerning the Love Madness and Imprisonment of Torquato Tasso, 2 vols (New York 1842), in Foreign Quarterly Review xxxix ( July 1842) 465–83. [Usually referred to as the ‘Essay on Chatterton’; see Appendix C in vol. II of the Longman Annotated English Poets Poems of Browning, p. 475]
Shelley	Introductory Essay in Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Moxon 1852 [Usually referred to as the ‘Essay on Shelley’; see Appendix A in this volume, p. 851]

6 Letters (incl. those of Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

American Friends	Browning to his American Friends: Letters between the Brownings, the Storys and James Russell Lowell 1841–1890, ed. G. R. Hudson (1965)
B. to Fields	I. Jack, ‘Browning on Sordello and Men and Women: Unpublished Letters to James T. Fields’, HLQ xlv, no. 3 (Summer 1982) 185–99
B. to Ruskin	Letter from Browning to Ruskin, in W. G. Collingwood, Life and Work of John Ruskin (1893) i 193–202
Correspondence	The Brownings’ Correspondence, ed. P. Kelley, R. Hudson, S. Lewis and E. Hagan (Winfield, KS 1984–)
Dearest Isa	Dearest Isa: Robert Browning’s Letters to Isabella Blagden, ed. E. C. McAleer (Austin, TX and Edinburgh 1951)
EBB to Arabella	The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Her Sister Arabella, 2 vols, ed. S. Lewis (Winfield, KS 2002)
EBB to Boyd	Elizabeth Barrett to Mr Boyd, ed. B. P. McCarthy (New Haven 1955)
EBB to Henrietta	Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Letters to her Sister, ed. L. Huxley (1929)
EBB to Horne	Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Addressed to Richard Hengist Horne, ed. S. R. Townshend Mayer, 2 vols (1877)
EBB to MRM	The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford 1835–1854, ed. M. B. Raymond and M. R. Sullivan, 3 vols (Winfield, KS 1983)
EBB to Ogilvy	Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs David Ogilvy 1849–1861, ed. P. N. Heydon and P. Kelley (New York 1973)
George Barrett	Letters of the Brownings to George Barrett, ed. P. Landis and R. E. Freeman (Urbana, IL 1958)
Invisible Friends	Invisible Friends: The Correspondence of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett and Benjamin Robert Haydon 1842–1845, ed. W. B. Pope (Cambridge, MA 1972)
LH	Letters of Robert Browning collected by Thomas J. Wise, ed. T. L. Hood (1933)
LK	The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett 1845–1846, ed. E. Kintner, 2 vols (Cambridge, MA 1969). The volumes are paginated continuously.
Learned Lady	Learned Lady: Letters from Robert Browning to Mrs Thomas Fitzgerald 1876–1889, ed. E. C. McAleer (Cambridge, MA 1966)
Letters of EBB	The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ed. F. G. Kenyon, 2 vols (1897)
Letters of RB and EBB	The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett 1845–1846 [ed. R. W. B. Browning], 2 vols (1899)
More Than Friend	More Than Friend: The Letters of Robert Browning to Katharine de Kay Bronson, ed. M. Meredith (Waco, TX and Winfield, KS 1985)
New Letters	New Letters of Robert Browning, ed. W. C. DeVane and K. L. Knickerbocker (1951)
RB & AD	F. G. Kenyon, Robert Browning and Alfred Domett (1906)
RB & JW	Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood: A Broken Friendship as Revealed in their Letters, ed. R. Curle (1937)
Rossetti	A. A. Adrian, ‘The Browning–Rossetti Friendship: Some Unpublished Letters’, PMLA lxxiii (1958) 538–44
Ruskin	D. J. DeLaura, ‘Ruskin and the Brownings: Twenty-Five Unpublished Letters’, BJRL liv (1972) 314–56
Ruskin1	Letter from John Ruskin to Browning of 2 Dec. 1855, and Browning’s reply of 10 Dec. 1855: see Appendix B in this volume, p. 878
Tennyson	The Brownings to the Tennysons: Letters from Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Alfred, Emily, and Hallam Tennyson 1852–1889, ed. T. J. Collins (Waco, TX 1971)
Trumpeter	Browning’s Trumpeter: The Correspondence of Robert Browning and Frederick J. Furnivall 1872–1889, ed. W. S. Peterson (Washington, DC 1979)
Twenty-two Letters	Twenty-two Unpublished Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning Addressed to Henrietta and Arabella Moulton Barrett [ed. W. R. Benet], New York 1935

Note the text of letters in Correspondence and EBB to Arabella has been very lightly normalized: EBB.’s habitual superscript for titles (‘M^r.’, ‘M^rs.’, ‘D^r.’) and for contractions (‘c^d.’, ‘sh^d.’ etc.) has been standardized as ‘Mr.’, ‘Mrs.’, ‘Dr.’, ‘cd.’, ‘shd.’, etc.

II Periodicals

BBI	Baylor University Browning Interests
BIS	Browning Institute Studies [see also VLC]
BJRL	Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
BNL	Browning Newsletter
BNYPL	Bulletin of the New York Public Library
BSN	Browning Society Notes
EC	Essays in Criticism
ELN	English Language Notes
ER	Edinburgh Review
Hood’s	Hood’s Magazine and Comic Miscellany
HLQ	Huntington Library Quarterly
JEGP	Journal of English and Germanic Philology
MLN	Modern Language Notes
MLQ	Modern Language Quarterly
MLR	Modern Language Review
MP	Modern Philology
MR	Monthly Repository
N & Q	Notes and Queries
PMLA	Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
QR	Quarterly Review
RES	Review of English Studies
SB	Studies in Bibliography
SBC	Studies in Browning and His Circle
SEL	Studies in English Literature 1500–1900
SP	Studies in Philology
SR	Studies in Romanticism
TLS	Times Literary Supplement
UTQ	University of Toronto Quarterly
VLC	Victorian Literature and Culture [continuation of BIS]
VNL	Victorian Newsletter
VP	Victorian Poetry
VS	Victorian Studies

III Miscellaneous

ABL	Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University
ABL/JMA	Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University: Joseph Milsand Archive
Allingham	William Allingham’s Diary, ed. G. Grigson (Fontwell 1967)
Baldinucci	Filippo Baldinucci. Notizie de’ Professori del Disegno da Cimabue in quà, ed. Giuseppe Piacenza, 21 vols (Torino: Stamperia Reale 1770)
Berg	Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, New York Public Library
Bettenson	H. Bettenson (ed.), Documents of the Christian Church (Oxford 1943, rpt. 1946)
Bibliography	L. N. Broughton, C. S. Northrup, and R. B. Pearsall, Robert Browning: A Bibliography 1830– 1950 (Ithaca 1953) [Cornell Studies in English xxxix]
Bibliography2	W. S. Peterson, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: An Annotated Bibliography 1951–1970 (New York 1974)
Biographie	Biographie Universelle, 50 vols (Paris 1811–22)
BL	British Library
Bronson1	K. de Kay Bronson, ‘Browning in Asolo’, Century Magazine lix (Apr. 1900), 920–31; repr. More Than Friend 127–45
Bronson2	K. de Kay Bronson, ‘Browning in Venice’, Century Magazine lxii (Feb. 1902); repr. More Than Friend 147–65
BSP	Browning Society Papers, 3 vols (1881–90) [vol. i 1881–4, vol. ii 1885–89, vol iii 1889–90]
CH	Browning: the Critical Heritage, ed. B. Litzinger and D. Smalley (1970)
Checklist	P. Kelley and R. Hudson, The Brownings’ Correspondence: A Checklist (Arkansas City, KS and New York 1978)
Collections	P. Kelley and B. A. Coley, The Browning Collections: A Reconstruction with Other Memorabilia (Winfield, KS 1984)
Cooke	G. W. Cooke, A Guidebook to the Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning (Boston and New York 1894)
Cruden’s Concordance	Alexander Cruden, Cruden’s Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testaments (1736; rpt. Lutterworth Press 1930)
Cyclopædia	E. Berdoe, The Browning Cyclopædia (Swan Sonnenschein 1892)
DeVane Handbook	W. C. DeVane, A Browning Handbook, 2nd edn (New York: Appleton, Century and Croft 1955)
DeVane Parleyings	W. C. DeVane, Browning’s Parleyings: The Autobiography of a Mind (New Haven 1927)
Domett Diary	The Diary of Alfred Domett, ed. E. A. Horsman (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1953)
DNB	Dictionary of National Biography (2nd edn)
EB	Encyclopedia Britannica (1911 edn)
English Poetry	English Poetry 600–1900 Full-Text Database, 2nd edn, Chadwyck-Healey 2000
Fantozzi	Federigo Fantozzi, Nuova Guida ovvero Descrizione Storico-Artistico-Critica della Città e Contorni di Firenze (Firenze [Florence] 1852).
Foster	Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, tr. Mrs. J. Foster, 6 vols (London: Henry G. Bohn 1850–85)
Gaye	Johan Gaye, Carteggio inedito d’Artisti dei Secoli XIV, XV, XVI, 3 vols (Florence: Presso Giuseppe Molini 1839–40)
Griffin and Minchin	W. H. Griffin and H. C. Minchin, The Life of Robert Browning, 3rd edn (Methuen 1938)
Huntington	Huntington Library, Pasadena
J.	Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755
Jameson	Mrs [Anna Brownell] Jameson, Memoirs of the Early Italian Painters and of the Progress of Painting in Italy, 2 vols (Charles Knight and Co. 1845)
Le Monnier	Giorgio Vasari, Le Vite de’ Più eccellenti Pittori, Scultori e Architetti, 13 vols, Firenze: Felice Le Monnier 1846–1857
Lemprière	J. Lemprière, A Classical Dictionary, 12th edn (T. Cadell and W. Davies 1823)
Maynard	J. Maynard, Browning’s Youth (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1977)
Melchiori	B. Melchiori, Browning’s Poetry of Reticence (Edinburgh 1968)
Miller	B. Miller, Robert Browning: A Portrait ( John Murray 1952)
Morgan	Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Murray	Murray’s Handbook for Travellers in Northern Italy (1842)
Murray2	Murray’s Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy (1843)
NT	New Testament
OED	Oxford English Dictionary
Orr Handbook	Mrs [Alexandra Sutherland] Orr, A Handbook to the Works of Robert Browning, 7th edn (G. Bell 1896)
Orr Life	Mrs [Alexandra Sutherland] Orr, Life and Letters of Robert Browning (Smith, Elder, 1891; rev. repr. 1908)
OT	Old Testament
PL	John Milton, Paradise Lost
Ruskin Works	A. Cook and E. C. Wedderburn, The Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin, 39 vols, (London 1903–13).
Sharp	William Sharp, Life of Robert Browning (Walter Scott 1890)
Texas	Harry Ransom Humanities research center, University of Texas at Austin
Thomas	Charles Flint Thomas, Art and Architecture in the Poetry of Robert Browning (Troy, NY 1991)
Wanley	Nathaniel Wanley, The Wonders of the Little World (1667)
Wellesley MS	Critical notes by EBB. on B.’s poems and plays, 1845–6, in the Special Poetry Collection, Wellesley College Library, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Williams	Raymond Williams, Keywords (1976)

Note Shakespeare’s plays and poems are cited from the Riverside Edition, 2nd edn, ed. G. Blakemore Evans et al. (New York 1997). Paradise Lost is cited from the Longman Annotated English Poets edition, 2nd edn, ed. Alastair Fowler (Harlow 1998).