Excerpt from Selections From the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning: Edited for School Use Browning's mother was the daughter of William Wiede mann, a German who had settled in Dundee and married a Scotch wife. Mrs. Browning impressed all who knew her by her sweetness and goodness. Carlyle spoke of her as the true type of a Scottish gentlewoman; her son's friend, Mr. Kenyon, said that such as she had no need to go to heaven, because they made it wherever they were; and her son called her a divine woman. She had deep religious instincts and concerned herself particularly with her son's moral and spiritual development; The bond between them was always very strong, and When she died in 1849 his wife wrote, He has loved his mother as such passionate natures can love, and I never saw a man so bowed down in an extremity of sorrow never. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Works by modern and Victorian critics are presented together with poems from each stage of Browning's literary career.