Dramatic Lyrics
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Dramatic Lyrics is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1842 as the third volume in a series of self-published books entitled Bells and Pomegranates. It is most famous as the first appearance of Browning's poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin, but also contains several of the poet's other best-known pieces, including My Last Duchess, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, Porphyria's Lover, and Johannes Agricola in Meditation.
Contents
Many of the original titles given by Browning to the poems in this collection, as with its "follow-up" collection Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, are different from the ones he later gave them in various editions of his collected works.[citation needed] Since this book was originally self-published in a very small edition, these poems are now always referred to by their later titles.
The poems were written between 1836 (possibly late 1835) and 1842.
| Original titles | Later titles |
| Cavalier Tunes— Marching AlongGive a RouseMy Wife Gertrude | Cavalier Tunes— Marching AlongGive a RouseBoot and Saddle |
| Italy and France— ItalyFrance | My Last Duchess Count Gismond |
| Camp and Cloister— Camp (French)Cloister (Spanish) | Incident of the French Camp Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister |
| In a Gondola Artemis Prologizes Waring | In a Gondola Artemis Prologizes Waring |
| Queen-Worship— Rudel and the Lady of TripoliCristina | Rudel to the Lady of Tripoli Cristina |
| Madhouse Cells— | Johannes Agricola in Meditation Porphyria's Lover |
| Through the Metidja to Abd-El-Kadr, 1842 The Pied Piper of Hamelin | Through the Metidja to Abd-El-Kadr The Pied Piper of Hamelin |