The Poems of Browning：Volume One: 1826-1840

This collected edition is the first to be based on the earliest printed texts, and to present these texts in chronological order. They show the story of Browning's creative life emerging from the shadows of his Romantic predecessors to the development of the form he made his own the dramatic monologue. This fully annotated version offers Browning's later revisions, and an appendix gives information about the original contents of volumes published in Browning's lifetime. Volume one traces Browning's career up to the writing of "Sordello" and includes "The Dance of death" and "The first born of Egypt". Distributed in the US by Addison-Wesley. See also following entry. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Daniel Karlin is Winterstoke Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol.

John Woolford is Professor Emeritus of nineteenth-century literature and culture at the University of Manchester and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield.