WorkRobert Browning

Poems

Poems (London: Chapman & Hall, 1849)

Robert Browning (1812–1889) · London: Chapman & Hall, 1849

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    “I have there read again Browning's Poems, having borrowed from him the new edition.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Florence, 15th March 1850 (letter dateline)

    Explicit statement: 'I have there read again Browning's Poems, having borrowed... the new edition'.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1850—

Letter to Emelyn Story

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“I have there read again Browning's Poems, having borrowed from him the new edition.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Hudspeth identified this as Browning's first collected edition (1849), containing "Paracelsus" and the eight "Bells and Pomegranates" publications.