This is the 11th volume in a complete set of Robert Browning's poetical works published by Smith, Elder & Company in 1889, the year of Browning's death. This volume contains the poems "Balaustion's Adventure" (1871), "Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau"?(1871) and "Fifine at the Fair" (1872).

Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Robert Browning, Vol. 11: Balaustion's Adventure; Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau; Fifine at the Fair Of harsh Lakonia! Ours the fasts and feasts, Choes and Chutroi ours the sacred grove, Agora, Dikasteria, Poikile. 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.

Volume 15 in The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Browning presents poetry Browning wrote in his seventies, his last two volumes: Parleyings (1887) and Asolando (1889). The former is the poet's last sustained meditation on life and on his times, a nine-section credo covering religion, history, poetry, politics, art, and music. Asolando is a coda to his whole oeuvre, a mixture of short love lyrics, historical monologues and anecdotes, light verse, and poems which are quite sui generis, all grouped around the theme of 'fancies and fact'. Both volumes are presented here with previously unknown sources, a wealth of new contextual material, and many textual nuances clarified, giving a fresh view of the last phase of Browning's career. What emerges is a poet more seriously Christian, Protestant, and Liberal than previously supposed, more interested in Britain's destiny and Empire, more enmeshed in the local battles of the 1880s?and a writer of considerable range and wit.