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Title: Dramatic Romances

Author: Robert Browning

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Language: English

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FROM THE POETIC WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING

DRAMATIC ROMANCES

Introduction and Notes: Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke, from the
edition of Browning’s poems published by Thomas Y. Crowell and
Company, New York, in 1898.

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CONTENTS

Introduction
Incident of the French Camp
The Patriot
My Last Duchess
Count Gismond
The Boy and the Angel
Instans Tyrannus
Mesmerism
The Glove
Time’s Revenges
The Italian in England
The Englishman in Italy
In a Gondola
Waring
The Twins
A Light Woman
The Last Ride Together
The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A Child’s Story
The Flight of the Duchess
A Grammarian’s Funeral
The Heretic’s Tragedy
Holy-Cross Day
Protus
The Statue and the Bust
Porphyria’s Lover
“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”