Forty-two works revealing the Victorian poet's great gifts as a poignant lyricist and a dramatist of great virtuaosity. Collection includes a number of Browning's famed dramatic monologues -- "Fra Lippo Lippi," "How It Strikes a Contemporary," and "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church" among them - plus such memorable masterworks as "Love among the Ruins," "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," "Home Thoughts from Abroad" and "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister." Original selection from Poems of Robert Browning, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1896."