Part 8 (1/2)

Queen Wors.h.i.+p; 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.

IV. The Return of the Druses. A Tragedy, in Five Acts. 1843.

V. A Blot in the 'Scutcheon. A Tragedy, in Three Acts. 1843.

[Second Edition, same year.]

VI. Colombe's Birthday. A Play, in Five Acts. 1844.

VII. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics. 1845.

'How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix. (16--.)'

Pictor Ignotus. (Florence, 15--.) Italy in England.

England in Italy. (Piano di Sorrento.) The Lost Leader.

The Lost Mistress.

Home Thoughts, from Abroad.

The Tomb at St. Praxed's: (Rome, 15--.) Garden Fancies; I. The Flower's Name; II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis.

France and Spain; I. The Laboratory (Ancien Regime); II. Spain--The Confessional.

The Flight of the d.u.c.h.ess.

Earth's Immortalities.

Song. ('Nay but you, who do not love her.') The Boy and the Angel.

Night and Morning; I. Night; II. Morning.

Claret and Tokay.

Saul. (Part I.) Time's Revenges.

The Glove. (Peter Ronsard loquitur.) VIII. and last. Luria; and A Soul's Tragedy. 1846.

This publication has seemed ent.i.tled to a detailed notice, because it is practically extinct, and because its nature and circ.u.mstance confer on it a biographical interest not possessed by any subsequent issue of Mr.

Browning's works. The dramas and poems of which it is composed belong to that more mature period of the author's life, in which the a.n.a.lysis of his work ceases to form a necessary part of his history. Some few of them, however, are significant to it; and this is notably the case with 'A Blot in the 'Scutcheon'.

Chapter 8

1841-1844

'A Blot in the 'Scutcheon'--Letters to Mr. Frank Hill; Lady Martin--Charles d.i.c.kens--Other Dramas and Minor Poems--Letters to Miss Lee; Miss Haworth; Miss Flower--Second Italian Journey; Naples--E. J.

Trelawney--Stendhal.

'A Blot in the 'Scutcheon' was written for Macready, who meant to perform the princ.i.p.al part; and we may conclude that the appeal for it was urgent, since it was composed in the s.p.a.ce of four or five days.