"Dramatic Idyls: Second Series", by Robert Browning, published by Smith, Elder & Co., London in 1880, First edition. [1st series was published in 1879]. A copy of Hugh MacLeod Innes autographed and dated 9th February 1888 on the title page; it also belonged to Ashby Bland Crowder with his ex-libris inside front cover.

Contents:

Echetlos
Clive
Muleykeh
Pietro of Abano
Doctor
Pan and Luna

Robert Browning [1812-1889] is one of the most significant Victorian Poets and, of course, English Poetry. Much of his reputation is based upon his mastery of the dramatic monologue although his talents encompassed verse plays and even a well-regarded essay on Shelley during a long and prolific career. Although the early part of Robert Browning's creative life was spent in comparative obscurity, he has come to be regarded as one of the most important English poets of the Victorian period. His dramatic monologues and the psycho-historical epic "The Ring and the Book" (1868-1869), a novel in verse, have established him as a major figure in the history of English poetry. His claim to attention as a children's writer is more modest, resting as it does almost entirely on one poem, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"

Provenance:

Hugh McLeod Innes (1862-1944), British writer.

He was born in India, where his father John James McLeod Innes, a lieutenant in the Bengal Engineers, won a Victoria Cross in the Indian Mutiny. Hugh McLeod Innes was for over thirty years a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. "For more than fifty years Fellow of the College, Hugh McLeod Innes was Junior Bursar for four years and Senior Bursar for thirty-six years. He found our finances straitened and left them strengthened. A Scot, he possessed the characteristic virtues of his country, being cautious in decision but pertinacious in action. He earned to an unusual degree the friendship and respect of all." [Trinity College, Cambridge]

Hugh McLeod Innes is known for his books "On the Universal and Particular in Aristotle's Theory of Knowledge" (1886), and "Fellows of Trinity College" (1941). He also wrote for the Dictionary of National Biography.

Ashby Bland Crowder, Richmond, Va. [1941-2019], Professor of English, American Literature, and the Humanities. He was a respected scholar on Victorian literature, published books on Browning, novelist William Humphrey, and poet Seamus Heaney. His edition of the poetry of John Crowe Ransom was published in 2019. He also contributed to many scholarly journals.

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Hard boards, publisher's brown cloth with gold stamping to spine [a little surface and shelf wear, there is repaired vertical spine cloth crease: see photos]; 4.1/2" x 7"; Bland Crowder’s ex-libris inside front cover, Hugh McLeod Innes dated autograph on the title page; 149 pages on heavy stock paper, a little soiling, a few page corner folds, very good condition.