The first edition of Browning's poems appeared in two volumes
in 1849, a second in three volumes in 1863 and a third in six
volumes in 1868. A revised edition containing all the poems
was issued in sixteen volumes in 1888-1889. A fine complete
edition in two volumes, edited by Augustine Birrell and F.G.
Kenyon, was issued in 1896, and Smith, Elder & Co., London,
brought out a two-volume edition in 1900. In this country the
Riverside edition of _Browning's Poetical Works_ in six
volumes, issued by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., and the Camberwell
edition in twelve handy volumes, with notes by Charlotte
Porter and Helen A. Clarke, published by Crowell, are valuable
for Browning students.
The standard life is _The Life and Letters of Robert
Browning_, by Mrs. Sutherland Orr, but valuable are _The Love
Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning_,
issued by Browning's son in 1899. For Edmund Gosse's _Robert
Browning--Personalia_ the poet supplied much of the material
in notes. Good short sketches and estimates are Chesterton's
_Browning_ in the English Men of Letters series and Waugh's
_Robert Browning_.
GEORGE MEREDITH
The standard edition of Meredith's works is the Boxhill
edition in seventeen volumes, with photogravure frontispieces,
issued in this country by the Scribners.
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