Catherine Maxwell, Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian LiteratureSecond Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature. Catherine Maxwell. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2008. Pp. xi+260.

2012 ◽  
Vol 110 (2) ◽  
pp. E123-E126
Author(s):  
John Holmes
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Late Victorian Literature

ROBERT AND ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 1998

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 553-569
Author(s):  
Sandra M. Donaldson ◽  
Dominic Bisignano ◽  
Melissa Brotton
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Annotated Bibliography ◽  
Elizabeth Barrett Browning ◽  
English Studies ◽  
Victorian Poetry ◽  
Nineteenth Century Literature ◽  
Victorian Studies ◽  
Victorian Literature And Culture ◽  
Century Literature

The following abbreviations appear in this year’s bibliography:BSN Browning Society Notes. DAI Dissertation Abstracts International. N&Q Notes and Queries. NCL Nineteenth Century Literature. RES Review of English Studies. VLC Victorian Literature and Culture. VP Victorian Poetry. VS Victorian StudiesAn asterisk* indicates that we have not seen the item. Cross references with citation numbers between 51 and 70 followed by a colon (e.g., C68:) refer to William S. Peterson’s Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: An Annotated Bibliography, 1951–1970 (New York: Browning Institute, 1974); higher numbers refer to Robert Browning: A Bibliography 1830–1950, compiled by L. N. Broughton, C. S. Northup, and Robert Pearsall (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1953).

“THE KING IS COLD,” BY STODDARD, NOT BROWNING

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-362
Author(s):  
Andrew M. Stauffer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Robert Browning ◽  
Dramatic Monologue ◽  
American Poet ◽  
William Cullen ◽  
Victorian Literature And Culture

About a decade ago, I discovered an unknown poem attributed to Robert Browning in two New York abolitionist periodicals, and published an article about it here in Victorian Literature and Culture. I made the case that the poem, a dramatic monologue entitled “The King is Cold,” sounds like Browning in ways that suggest either its authenticity or the early familiarity of an American audience with Browning's style; and I closed the article with the statement, “By bringing ‘The King is Cold’ to light, I hope to encourage further speculation and inquiry as to its place either among Browning's collected works, or within the larger field of Browning scholarship that includes the study of his American reputation” (469). Since then, electronic databases have automated broad, sweeping searches of periodicals, and now the relevant information is easily discovered: the poem was in fact written by Richard Henry Stoddard, the American poet and man of letters. It was first published under Browning's name in the New York News sometime late in 1857, and was correctly ascribed to Stoddard in Russell's Magazine in December of that year; I found this information by searching in the American Periodicals Series Online, 1740–1900. The abolitionist reprintings (in the National Anti-Slavery Standard and the Liberator) apparently followed the version in the New York News, and the misattribution was perpetuated. Indeed, the poem reappeared in another New York periodical, Munsey's Scrap Book, in 1909, where it was still being given out as Robert Browning's. “The King is Cold” was also included as Browning's in William Cullen Bryant's oft-reprinted New Library of Poetry and Song.

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