The Poems of Browning: Volume One

The Poems of Browning is the first collected edition to be based on the earliest printed texts, and to present these texts in order of their composition.Together, volumes I and II provide an authoritative and accessible tribute to this great poet. Volume I, 1826-1840 traces Browning's career up to the writing of Sordello . It includes his only surviving juvenilia: The Dance of Death and The First-Borm of Egypt ; Pauline , his first anonymous publication, and Paracelsus , the poem which made his