[Footnote 145:  Red-cotton Night-cap Country.]

Browning’s poetry is thus one of the most potent of the influences which in the nineteenth century helped to break down the shallow and mischievous distinction between the “sacred” and the “secular,” and to set in its place the profounder division between man enslaved by apathy, routine, and mechanical morality, and man lifted by the law of love into a service which is perfect freedom, into an approximation to God which is only the fullest realisation of humanity.

INDEX.

Note—­The names of the Persons are given in small capitals; titles of literary works in italics; other names in ordinary type; black figures indicate the more detailed references.  Only the more important of the incidental quotations are included.  Poems are referred to only under their authors’ names.

AESCHYLUS, 215. 
ALLINGHAM, W., 87. 
American fame of Browning, 87. 
ARISTOPHANES, 77, 207 f. 
ARNOLD, M., 26. 
Asolo, 27, 50, 220, 232.
Athenaeum, The, 172, 251.

BALZAC, 42, 49, 86, 117. 
BARRETT, ELIZABETH.  See Browning, E.B. 
BARTOLI, his Simboli, 27. 
BENCKHAUSEN, Russian Consul-General, 14. 
BERANGER, 86. 
BLAGDEN, ISA.  See BROWNING, R., letters. 
BRONSON, Mrs ARTHUR, 220, 231. 
BRONTE, EMILY, her character “Heathcliff,” 66. 
BROWNING, ROBERT (grandfather), 2. 
BROWNING, ROBERT (father), 3, 6, 18, 149 n., 173. 
BROWNING, ROBERT,
    cosmopolitan in sympathies, English by his art, 1, 2;
    his birth, 3;
    likeness to his mother, 4 n.;
    character of his home, 5;
    boyhood, 5, 6;
    early sense of rhythm, 7;
    reads Shelley, Keats, and Byron, 8 f.;
    journey to St Petersburg, 14;
    first voyage to Italy, 26 f.;
    second voyage to Italy, 61;
    correspondence with E.B.  Barrett, 78;
    marriage, 81;
    settlement in Italy, 84;
    friendships and society at Florence, 84 f.;
    Italian politics, 88;
    Italian scenery, 91;
    Italian painting, 98 f.;
    and music, 103 f.;
    religion, 110 f.;
    his interpretation of In a Balcony, 145 n.;
    death of Mrs Browning, 147;
    return to London, 148;
    society, 150;
    summer sojourns in France, 153 f., 202 f.;
    in the Alps, 216;
    death of Miss Egerton-Smith, 216;
    Italy once more, 220;
    Asolo and Venice, 231 f.;
    death, 234. 
    Works—­
        Abt Vogler, 71, 158 f.
        Agamemnon (translation of), 215 f.
        Andrea del Sarto, 70 f., 100 f.
        Another Way of Love, 142.
        Any Wife to Any Husband, 140.
        Appearances, 212.
        Aristophanes’ Apology, 206 f.
        Artemis Prologizes, 68, 190.