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'''Dramatic Lyrics''' is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1842 as the second volume in a series of self-published books entitled ''Bells and Pomegranates''. It is most famous as the first appearance of Browning's poem ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin'', but also contains several of the poet's other best-known pieces, including ''My Last Duchess'', ''Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister'', ''Porphyria's Lover'', and ''Johannes Agricola in Meditation''.

Contents

Contents

First Edition Titles

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Contents

Many of the original titles given by Browning to the poems in this collection, as with its "follow-up" collection ''Dramatic Romances and Lyrics'', are different from the ones he later gave them in various editions of his collected works. Since this book was originally self-published in a very small edition, these poems really only came to prominence in the later collections, and so the later titles are given here; see the bottom of the page for a list of the originals.

★ ''Cavalier Tunes:

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★ ''Marching Along

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★ ''Give a Rouse

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★ ''Boot and Saddle

★ ''My Last Duchess

★ ''Count Gismond

★ ''Incident of the French Camp

★ ''Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

★ ''In a Gondola

★ ''Artemis Prologuizes

★ ''Waring

★ ''Rudel to the Lady of Tripoli

★ ''Cristina

★ ''Johannes Agricola in Meditation

★ ''Porphyria’s Lover

★ ''Through the Metidja to Abd-El-Kadr

★ ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin

First Edition Titles

★ ''Cavalier Tunes; I. Marching Along; II. Give a Rouse; III. My Wife Gertrude (`Boot and Saddle').

★ ''Italy and France; I. Italy; II. France.

★ ''Camp and Cloister; I. Camp (French); II. Cloister (Spanish).

★ ''In a Gondola.

★ ''Artemis Prologuizes.

★ ''Waring; I.; II.

★ ''Queen-worship; I. Rudel and The Lady of Tripoli; II. Cristina.

★ ''Madhouse Cells; I. (Johannes Agricola.); II. (Porphyria.)

★ ''Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr, 1842.

★ ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin; a Child's Story.
''Italy and France'' comprises ''My Last Duchess'' and ''Count Gismond''.

External links

★ Complete combined text of Dramatic Lyrics and Dramatic Romances And Lyrics