Excerpt from Studies in the Poetry of Robert Browning These Studies were published some years ago, and soon went through two editions. For various reasons they were not reissued at that time. They are issued now because many inquiries for them, since they went out of print, and other considerations, seem to show that there is still room for them in the literature of their subject. The book has been carefully revised, in many parts rewritten, three chapters are new, five others largely so, and many additions have been made, with the view of making it more complete within its plan as a study/of Browning's work. More space has been allowed me than in the former editions, and I have been glad to avail myself of it, though the longer and more important of the later poems are still excluded. In "The Ring and the Book," the "Dramatic Idyls," "Fifine," "Ferishtah," and some others of these later poems there is matter for a further group of studies. 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.