Browning's England: A Study of English Influences in Browning

CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE ENGLISH POETS, FRIENDS, AND ENTHUSIASMS... 1 CHAPTER II SHAKESPEARES PORTRAIT 42 CHAPTER III A CRUCIAL PERIOD IN ENGLISH HISTORY .... 79 CHAPTER IV SOCIAL ASPECTS OF ENGLISH LIFE 211 CHAPTER V RELIGIOUS THOUGHT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 322 CHAPTER VI ART CRITICISM INSPIRED BY THE ENGLISH MUSICIAN, AVISON 420 ILLUSTRATIONS Browning at 23 Frontispiece FACING PAGE Percy Bysshe Shelley 4 John Keats 10 William Wordsworth 16 Rydal Mount, the Home of Wordsworth .... 22 An English Lane 32 First Folio Portrait of Shakespeare 60 Charles I in Scene of Impeachment 80 Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford ...... 88 Charles I . 114 Whitehall 120 Westminster Hall 156 The Tower, London 170 The Tower, Traitors Gate 182 An English Manor House 222 An English Park 240 John Bunyan 274 An English Inn 288 Cardinal Wiseman 336 Sacred Heart 342 The Nativity 350 The Transfiguration 366 Handel 426 Avisons March . 446 IX