New Poems

Excerpt from New Poems IN 1888 - 9 Robert Browning gave his personal supervision to the issue of his works in an edition of sixteen volumes, to which in 1894 was added a seventeenth volume, being Asolando, ' the work first published in December 1889, the month in which the poet died. A complete edition in two volumes appeared in 1896, edited by Mr. Augustine Birrell; whilst in 1912 was issued the Centenary Edition in ten volumes, under Sir Frederic Kenyon's editorship. To this edition were added ten poems, from various sources, that had not been included before in a collected edition of his works. At the dispersal of the Browning Collections in May 1913' - rendered necessary by the death of the poet's only son, Robert Barrett Browning, which occurred at Asolo on July 8, 1912 - twelve new poems by Robert Browning and numerous mss. By Mrs. Browning were brought to light. Of these. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.