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- Part One. Early Environment
- I. Introduction: Seeing Young Browning Plain
- II. Camberwell and New Cross
- III. Family
- IV. Self-Consciousness
- 1. Domestic Life
- 2. Evangelical Religion
- 3. Nature
- V. Objectivity
- 1. Quirky Types
- 2. An Encyclopedic Outlook
- 3. Our Set
- 4. Family Cosmopolitanism
- VI. Art
- 1. The Artistic Environment
- 2. The Significance of Art
- 3. Perishable Idols
- Part Two. The Development of a Poetic Nature: First Steps
- VII. Precocious Beginnings
- 1. An Itch for Rhyming
- 2. Giants of Old
- VIII. A Sentimental Education: The Flowers
- IX. Sun-Treader: First Flight
- 1. Shelley Discovered: “A Spell to Me Alone”
- 2. A Poetic Conversion
- 3. Ambiguities: Pauline
- 4. Pauline: Alternatives
- 5. The Shelleyan Heritage
- VII. Precocious Beginnings
- Part Three. Education
- X. Schooling and Society
- 1. Educational Alternatives
- 2. The Very Respectable Establishment Opposite Rye-lane
- 3. Interlude: Home Tutoring and Millennial Hopes
- XI. The London University
- 1. Fair Girl That Comes a Withered Hag
- 2. A Practical University
- 3. Some Practical Decisions
- XII. Rededication: Toward Humanity and the Human Past
- XIII. A Poet’s Education: Tradition as Found
- 1. Curious Knowledge
- 2. A European Culture
- 3. The Legacy of Protestant Culture
- 4. Starry Paladins: Renaissance Ideals
- 5. Excellent and Indispensable Eighteenth Century
- XIV. A Poet’s Education: Limits and Promise
- 1. Science: The Failure to Connect
- 2. History: Prelude
- 3. Education: Conclusions
- X. Schooling and Society
- Appendixes
- A. Ancestry and Contemporary Relatives of Robert Browning (including Genealogical Charts)
- B. Checklist of Sketchbooks, Notebooks, and Manuscripts of Robert Browning Sr.
- C. Contributions of Robert Browning to The Trifler
- D. Sarah Flower Adams’ Marginalia in Her Copy of Pauline
- Abbreviations Used in Notes
- Notes
- Index
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