1887 Poetic & Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Riverside Edition Complete Set

Riverside Edition. The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning. In Six Volumes. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1887. Complete set in six volumes. Half-leather marbled bindings measure 8 x 5", 8vos. Pauline: Paracelsus; Strafford: Sordello: Pippa Passes King Victor and King Charles Dramatic Lyrics: The Return of the Druses: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon: Colombe's Birthday. Dramatic Romances: A Soul's Tragedy: Luria. The Ring and the Book. Christmas Eve and Easter Day Men and Women: In a Balcony. Dramatic Personae: Balaustion's Adventure: Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau: Fifine at the Fair Red Cotton Night-Cap Country. Aristophanes' Apology: The Inn Album: Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper and Other Poems The Agamemnon of Aeschylus. La Saisiaz: The Two Poets of Croisic: Dramatic Idyls: Jocoseria: Ferishtah's Fancies and Parleyings. In fair condition. Boards scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Title and volume labels LACKING on Vols. 1 & 3 with chipping on other volumes' labels. Heads and tails of all spines reinforced with clear non-binder's tape - which is tearing and toned. Front board of Vol. 1 attached via this tape ONLY. Top edges of text-block gilt. Text-blocks normally toned in margins with some sparse instances of age-staining. Gutters cracked. Light off-setting on Vol. I's tissue guard. Bindings are intact, but very fragile. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Robert Browning (1812 – 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax. His early long poems Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835) were acclaimed, but his reputation dwindled for a time – his 1840 poem Sordello was seen as wilfully obscure – and took over a decade to recover, by which time he had moved from Shelleyan forms to a more personal style. In 1846, he married fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett and moved to Italy. By her death in 1861, he had published the collection Men and Women (1855). His Dramatis Personae (1864) and book-length epic poem The Ring and the Book (1868–1869) made him a leading poet. By his death in 1889, he was seen as a sage and philosopher-poet who had fed into Victorian social and political discourse. Riverside Edition. Complete set. FORN-SHELF-0732-BB-2512-HK3047.…