"Men and Women" was Robert Browning's first published work after a
self-imposed five year hiatus, and his first collection of shorter
poems since his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett in 1846. Upon
publication in 1855, "Men and Women," containing fifty-one
seemingly random poems, was not a critical or financial success.
During this period, Browning felt overshadowed by the stellar
success of his wife. Later in life, renewed public interest in his
writing would elevate Robert Browning into the pantheon of greatest
poets. Thirteen years after the publication of "Men and Women,"
Browning revisited the collection, and a new vision emerged. He
separated the simpler, emotionally rhymed poems, such as
"Mesmerism" and "A Woman's Last Word," and the picturesque rhymed
verse, such as "Childe Roland" and "The Statue and the Bust," from
their more complex companions, such as "Cleon," "Fra Lippo," and
"Rudel." Finally, Browning succeeded in producing the dramatic
concept he had tried to communicate two decades earlier, not by
adding, but by removing stray conceptual pieces. This volume was
then published as "Transcendentalism: A Poem In Twelve Books" to a
frenzied reception. This large sized special edition contains the
restored manuscript of Robert Browning's unique poetic masterpiece.
Excerpt From "Andrea Del Sarto" in "Men and Women" All Rights
Reserved But do not let us quarrel any more, No, my Lucrezia; bear
with me for once: Sit down and all shall happen as you wish. You
turn your face, but does it bring your heart? I'll work then for
your friend's friend, never fear, Treat his own subject after his
own way, Fix his own time, accept too his own price, And shut the
money into this small hand When next it takes mine. Will it?
tenderly? Oh, I'll content him--but to-morrow. Love! I often am
much wearier than you think, This evening more than usual, and it
seems As if--forgive now--should you let me sit Here by the window
with your hand in mine And look a half-hour forth on Fiesole, Both
of one mind, as married people use, Quietly, quietly the evening
through, I might get up to-morrow to my work Cheerful and fresh as
ever. Let us try.
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