Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents xiii
4. Part One. Early Environment
5. I. Introduction: Seeing Young Browning Plain 3
6. II. Camberwell and New Cross 9
7. III. Family 19
8. IV. Self-Consciousness 43
9. V. Objectivity 74
10. VI. Art 131
11. Part Two. The Development of a Poetic Nature: First Steps
12. VII. Precocious Beginnings 163
13. VIII. A Sentimental Education: The Flowers 179
14. IX. Sun-Treader: First Flight 193
15. Part Three. Education
16. X. Schooling and Society 241
17. XI. The London University 263
18. XII. Rededication: Toward Humanity and the Human Past 287
19. XIII. A Poet’s Education: Tradition as Found 295
20. XIV. A Poet’s Education: Limits and Promise 335
21. Appendixes
22. Appendix A. Ancestry and Contemporary Relatives of Robert Browning 355
23. Appendix B. Checklist of Sketchbooks, Notebooks, and Manuscripts of Robert Browning Sr. 376
24. Appendix C. Contributions of Robert Browning to The Trifler 379
25. Appendix D. Sarah Flower Adams’ Marginalia in Her Copy of Pauline 383
26. Abbreviations 389
27. Notes 391
28. Index 463