PIPPA PASSES

ROBERT BROWNING

Published by BARSE & HOPKINS, NEW YORK, 1900

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VERY NICE LOOKING BROWN LEATHER COVER, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, TIGHT, TASSEL PAGE MARKER ATTACHED AND GOOD SHAPE. A DRAMA ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 1841. NO DATE IS IN THIS BOOK. ESTIMATE 1900. Browning, Robert, 1812-89, English poet. His remarkably broad and sound education was primarily the work of his artistic and scholarly parents-in particular his father, a London bank clerk of independent means. Pauline, his first poem, was published anonymously in 1833. In 1834 he visited Italy, which eventually became his second homeland. He won some recognition with Paracelsus (1835) and Sordello (1840). Pippa Passes is a dramatic piece, as much play as poetry, by Robert Browning. It was published in 1841 as the first volume of his Bells and Pomegranates series, in a very inexpensive two-column edition for sixpence, and next republished in Poems in 1848, when it received much more critical attention. It was dedicated to Thomas Noon Talfourd, who had recently attained fame as the author of the tragedy Ion. The author described the work as "the first of a series of dramatic pieces." A young, blameless silk-winding girl is wandering innocently through the environs of Asolo, in her mind attributing kindness and virtue to the people she passes. TERRIFIC PIECE OF HISTORY. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

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• Title: PIPPA PASSES
• Publisher: BARSE & HOPKINS, NEW YORK
• Publication Date: 1900
• Language: English
• Binding: Full-Leather
• Condition: Very Good
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