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— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

…

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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

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Robert Browning·1812–1889
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ay 7, 1812. Robert Browning born in Camberwell, London.1824. _Incondita_ ready for publication.1825. Shelley and Keats read.1826. Left Mr. Ready's school.1833. _Pauline_ published anonymously.1833-4. Travels in Russia and Italy.1835. _Paracelsus._1837. _Strafford._ Acted May 1, 1837, Covent Garden.1840. _Sordello._1841-6. _Bells and Pomegranates._1841. No. I. _Pippa Passes._1842. No. II. _King Victor and King Charles._1842. No. III. _Dramatic Lyrics._1843. No. IV. _The Return of the Druses._1843. No. V. _A Blot in the 'Scutcheon._ Acted Feb.11, 1843, Drury Lane.1844. No. VI. _Colombe's Birthday._ Acted April 25,1853, Haymarket.1845. No. VII. _Dramatic Romances and Lyrics._1846. No. VIII. _Luria_ and _A Soul's Tragedy_.Jan. 10, 1845. Correspondence between Mr. Browning and MissBarrett begun.May 20, 1845. Their first meeting.Sept. 12, 1846. Their marriage at Marylebone Church, London.Oct. 1846. to April, 1847. In Pisa.April 20, 1847. Arrival at Florence.May 1848. Settled in permanent home at Casa Guidi.1849. _Poems by Robert Browning._ Two volumes.March 9, 1849. Birth of Wiedemann (or "Penini") Browning.March 1849. Death of Browning's mother.1850. _Christmas Eve and Easter Day._June 1851. Mrs. Browning's _Casa Guidi Windows_.1852. _Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley._ With anintroductory essay by Robert Browning.1855. _Men and Women._ In two volumes.Oct. 1856. Mrs. Browning's _Aurora Leigh_.June 1860. Browning found the "Yellow Book."June 29, 1861. Mrs. Browning died. She was buried in Florence.July 1861. Browning left Florence.1862. Established himself at 19 Warwick Crescent, London,where he lived twenty-five years.1863. _The Poetical Works of Robert Browning._ In threevolumes. Chapman and Hall.1863. _Selections from the Poetical Works of RobertBrowning._ [Editors, B.W. Proctor and JohnForster.]1864. _Dramatis Personæ._1866. Browning's father died and Sarianna came to livewith her brother.1868. _The Poetical Works of Robert Browning._ In sixvolumes. Smith, Elder and Company.1868-9. _The Ring and the Book._ In four volumes.1871. _Balaustion's Adventure._1871. _Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society._1872. _Fifine at the Fair._1873. _Red Cotton Night-Cap Country._1875. _Aristophanes' Apology._1875. _The Inn Album._July 1876. _Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper._1877. _The Agamemnon of Æschylus translated._1878. _La Saisiaz; The Two Poets of Croisic._Aug. 1878. Browning first revisited Italy.1879. _Dramatic Idyls._1880. _Dramatic Idyls._ Second Series.1881. The London Browning Society established.1883. _Jocoseria._1884. _Ferishtah's Fancies._1887. Browning moved to De Vere Gardens.1887. _Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning._Riverside edition: Houghton, Mifflin and Company.1888-9. _The Poetical Works of Robert Browning._ Insixteen volumes. Smith, Elder and Company. [Allthe works collected by the author except_Asolando_.]Dec. 12, 1889. _Asolando._Dec. 12, 1889. Robert Browning died in the Palazzo Rezzonica, hisson's home in Venice.Dec. 31, 1889. Buried in Westminster Abbey.
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