A74:1]Berridge, Elizabeth, ed. The Barretts at Hope End: The Early Diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. London: John Murray, 1974. pp. xiii + 276. ▪ Abridged and popularized edition of the diary first published as A69:5. ▪ Rev. by Claire Tomalin, New Statesman, 88 (5 July 1974), 18–19; Paul Scott, Country Life, 156 (18 July 1974), 182–83 (corrections by Scott, 5 Sept. 1974, p. 628); Elizabeth Jane Howard, Spectator, 27 July 1974, p. 118; Alethea Hayter, TLS, 6 Sept. 1974, p. 948; Blackwood's, 316 (December 1974), 570–71; Arthur Kincaid, BSN, 5 (March 1975), 29–31; Gardner B. Taplin, SIB, 3 (Spring, 1975), 141–42.Google Scholar

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C74:70]Pearsall, Robert B.Robert Browning. (Twayne's English Authors Series, No. 168.) New York: Twayne, 1974. pp. 193. ▪ “The purpose of the book is simply to explain. I have tried to provide a straightforward account of Browning's poetic career as a whole, to give special attention to works and issues of special interest, and to gloss with cogent events in the life of the poet” (p. 8). ▪ Rev. by David Kwinn, LJ, 99 (1 April 1974), 1039; Roma A. King, Jr., VP, 13 (Summer, 1975), 151.Google Scholar

C74:71] [Peterson, William S.] “The Browning Institute.” British Studies Monitor, 4 (1974), 32–34. ▪ Description of the Institute's activities and plans.Google Scholar

C74:72]Peterson, William S., ed. Browning Institute Studies. Vol. 2. New York: Browning Institute, 1974. pp. x + 223. ▪ The individual articles are listed separately in this bibliography. ▪ Rev. by Allan C. Dooley, SIB, 3 (Spring, 1975), 145–49; Mark Roberts, TLS, 16 May 1975, p. 543; Roma A. King, Jr., VP, 13 (Summer, 1975), 150–51.Google Scholar

C74:73]Pickering, George. Creative Malady: Illness in the Lives and Minds of Charles Darwin, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Florence Nightingale, Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1974. ▪ Chapter on EBB (pp. 245–65) suggests that she was creative and mentally ill but that there was no relationship between the two facts.Google Scholar

C74:74] “Poet's Concern.” Light: A Journal of Spiritual Progress and Psychical Research, 92 (Autumn, 1972), 143–47.* ▪ The spirits of EBB and RB visit the author and help the latter write poetry.Google Scholar

C74:75]Poston, Lawrence III., “Browning Rearranges Browning.” SIB, 2 (Spring, 1974), 39–54. ▪ The significance of RB's arrangements of his poems in the Poetical Works of 1863.Google Scholar

C74:76]Poston, Lawrence III., Loss and Gain: An Essay on Browning's Dramatis Personae. (Univ. of Nebraska Studies, NS No. 48.) Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska, 1974. pp. xi + 64. ▪ A close study of the volume, which is seen as occupying a pivotal position between Men and Women and The Ring and the Book. ▪ Rev. by Ashby Bland Crowder, SIB, 3 (Spring, 1975), 134–35; Roma A. King, Jr., VP, 13 (Summer, 1975), 150.Google Scholar

C74:77]Randall, Dale B. J. “Conrad Interviews No. 4: Edward K. Titus, Jr.” Conradiana, 3, No. 1 (1970–1971), 75–80. ▪ Conrad praised RB as a great novelist (p. 77). Reprinted from New York World, 20 May 1923.Google Scholar

C74:78]Robert Browning—His Life and Poetry (film). [See C73:110.] ▪ Rev. by Arthur, Kincaid, BSN, 5 (07 1975), 22–24.Google Scholar

C74:79]Rogers, Neville. “Browning and the Clavichord.” BSN, 4 (07 1974), 27–29. ▪ RB's use of the clavichord in “A Toccata of Galuppi's.”Google Scholar

C74:80]Ross, Michael L. “Henry James' ‘Half-man’: The Legacy of Browning in ‘The Madonna of the Future.’” BIS, 2 (1974), 25–42. ▪ The influence of RB's poetry, especially “Andrea del Sarto,” upon James' story.Google Scholar

C74:81]Russo, Francine G. “Browning's ‘James Lee's Wife’: A Study in Neurotic Love.” VP, 12 (1974), 219–34. ▪ An examination of the poem's language and imagery, which convey a sense of the woman's passivity.Google Scholar

C74:82]Ryals, Clyde de L., ed. Nineteenth-Century Literary Perspectives: Essays in Honor of Lionel Stevenson. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1974. ▪ “The Structural Logic of The Ring and the Book” by Boyd Litzinger (pp. 105–14) discusses the sequence of the 12 books; “Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau: Browning's ‘Ghostly Dialogue’” by Clyde de L. Ryals (pp. 115–28) attempts to show “(1) that whatever inconsistencies there are in Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau stem not from the poet's inability to control his material but from the character of the speaker himself and (2) that the poem is a product of Browning's further experimentation with the dramatic monologue and manifests his increasing awareness of the limitations of that mode.”Google Scholar

C74:83]Sansom, Clive. “Mystery of the Pied Piper” (letter). Country Life, 153 (15 02 1973), 402. ▪ On the date and genesis of the poem.Google Scholar

C74:84]Scheer, Thomas F. “Mythopoeia and the Renaissance Mind: A Reading of A Grammarian's Funeral.” Journal of Narrative Technique, 4 (1974), 119–28. ▪ “… the Grammarian's students are utlizing the occasion of their master's burial to defend the pursuit of humanistic learning in a primarily ecclesiastical age” (p. 120).Google Scholar

C74:85]Shaw, W. David. “Mystification and Mystery: Browning's ‘Pan and Luna.’” BSN, 4 (07 1974), 9–12. ▪ A close reading of the poem.Google Scholar

C74:86]Shumway, Eric B. “The Pain of Finite Hearts: A Study of Robert Browning's Love Poems.” DAI, 34 (1974), 5123–24A (Univ. of Virginia). ▪ Provides close readings of the love poems and “shows how Browning relates erotic love with spiritual love to make a total philosophy of love.”Google Scholar

C74:87]Siegchrist, Mark. “Browning's Red Cotton Night-Cap Country: The Process of Imagination.” VP, 12 (1974), 137–52. ▪ The poem “is a reconstruction of the imaginative origins of a dramatic monologue, exploring the process through which the poet—in this case actually Browning himself—can find meaning even in the most unlikely material” (p. 138).Google Scholar

C74:88]Siegchrist, Mark. “Pollyanna of Polyanthus: Clara de Millefieurs in Browning's Red Cotton Night-Cap Country” English Language Notes, 11 (1974), 283–87. ▪ The symbolic overtones of Clara's name.Google Scholar

C74:89]Sinha, A., and Das, S. K., eds. Nineteenth Century Studies: Essays Presented to Professor Amalendu Bose. Calcutta: World Press Private, 1973. ▪ K. N. Bakaya, “Browning's Predecessors in the Art of the Dramatic Monologue” (pp. 107–15); Virendra Sharma, “The Place of Browning's Dramas in the Total Context of His Poetical Works” (pp. 133–41); O. P. Govil, “Satire in Browning's Fifine at the Fair” (pp. 143–63; previously listed as C73:53). There are also references to RB in other chapters.Google Scholar

C74:90]Sirugo, Marilyn S. “Abt Vogler.” SIB, 2 (Fall, 1974), 55–56. ▪ Description of Vogler's organ.Google Scholar

C74:91]Slinn, E. Warwick. “The Judgement of Justice in ‘Ivàn Ivàno-vitch.’” BSN, 4 (03 1974), 3–9. ▪ The poem creates a sense of unfathomable mystery, for RB “has dramatized the uncertain springs of human behaviour when under stress and the fruitless efforts to judge the morality of such action” (p. 8).Google Scholar

C74:92]Sonstroem, David. “On Resisting Brother Lippo.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 15 (1974), 721–34. ▪The flaws in Lippo's character.Google Scholar

C74:93]Stone, Weldon. “L'Envoi.” SIB, 2 (Fall, 1974), 7. ▪ Poem about RB.Google Scholar

C74:94]Tennyson, Emily. The Letters of Emily Lady Tennyson, ed. Hoge, James A.. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1974.▪ See index.Google Scholar

C74:95]Thomas, Charles F. “Saint Jerome in ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’ and ‘Bishop Blougram's Apology’—Two Correlated Paintings.” SIB, 2 (Spring, 1974), 86–88. ▪ RB “intends the reader to associate Correggio's painting [of St. Jerome] with Blougram's emblematic allusion to the Immaculate Conception and St. Jerome.”Google Scholar

C74:96]Timmerman, John H. “Feet of Clay: Concepts of Heroism in the Works of Carlyle, Browning, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche.” DAI, 34 (1974), 5933A (Ohio Univ.). ▪ In RB's poetry the quest for meaning “turns inward as outward forms and traditions prove valueless as guides.”Google Scholar

C74:97]Tuman, Myron C. “Frederick the Great, Romola, The Ring and the Book, and the Mid-Victorian Crisis in Historicism.” DAI, 34 (1974), 7251A (Tulane Univ.). ▪ The Ring and the Book was an attempt to “continue the original historicist tradition in a materialistic, unbelieving age.”Google Scholar

C74:98]Walsh, Thomas P. “Robert Browning: Poet, Prophet, Priest. A Reading of the Early Poems.” DAI, 34 (1974), 4222A (Univ. of Nebraska).▪“This study attempts to interpret Robert Browning's early poems in terms of his dedication to poetry.”Google Scholar

C74:99]Ward, Maisie. The Tragi-Comedy of Pen Browning. [See C72:72.] ▪ Rev. by J. R. Watson, YWES, 53 (1972), 325.Google Scholar

C74:100]Watkins, Charlotte C. “Form and Sense in Browning's The Inn Album” BIS, 2 (1974), 65–76. ▪ The poem is a daring experiment in contemporary subject matter and treats many of RB's favorite themes.Google Scholar

C74:101]Watson, J. R., ed. Browning: ‘Men and Women’and Other Poems. [See C73:134.] ▪ Rev. by Wilson G. Baroody, SIB, 2 (Fall, 1974), 91–95 (correction in SIB, 3 [Fall, 1975], 143); John Lucas, BSN, 5 (December 1975), 32–33.Google Scholar

C74:102]Wear, Richard. “Further Thoughts on Browning's Spanish Cloister.” VP, (1974), 67–70. ▪ “Hy, Zy, Hine” is a simple, spontaneous song by Brother Lawrence, which is followed by an inappropriate prayer. The speaker, a strict formalist, mocks both.Google Scholar

C74:103] “What's Become of Browning?” TLS, 22 03 1974, pp. 293–94.▪ Review-essay. Two corrections by reviewer, 12 Apr., p. 395.Google Scholar

C74:104]Whitla, William. “Sources for Browning in Byron, Blake, and Poe.” SIB, 2 (Spring, 1974), 7–16. ▪ Links these poems: “The Dance of Death” and Byron's Manfred; the Prologue to Fifine at the Fair and Blake's The Gates of Paradise; the Epilogue to Fifine at the Fair and Poe's “The Raven.”Google Scholar

C74:105]Wiggins, Genevieve E. “The Brownings and Napoleon III: A Study in Political Poetry.” DAI, 34 (1974), 7206–07A (Univ. of Tennessee). ▪ “Approximately one–fourth of the study deals with Mrs. Browning's political poetry, the remainder of the work being a close analysis of Browning's Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau.”Google Scholar

C74:106]Ziegler, Heide. “Browning's ‘The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church,’ 76–79, 98–100.” Explicator, 32 (1974), Item 45. ▪ Reply to C61:8.Google Scholar