{{short description|Collection of poems by Robert Browning}} {{italic title}} {{more citations needed|date=November 2024}} '''''Dramatic Lyrics''''' is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1842<ref name="jack">{{cite journal |last1=Jack |first1=Ian |title=Browning's "Dramatic Lyrics" (1842) |journal=Browning Institute Studies |date=1987 |volume=15 |pages=161–175 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25057814 |access-date=21 November 2024 |issn=0092-4725 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.1017/S0092472500001929 |jstor=25057814 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> as the third volume in a series of self-published books entitled ''Bells and Pomegranates''. It is most famous as the first appearance of Browning's poem ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin'', but also contains several of the poet's other best-known pieces, including ''My Last Duchess'', ''Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister'', ''Porphyria's Lover'', and ''Johannes Agricola in Meditation''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dramatic Lyrics {{!}} work by Browning {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dramatic-Lyrics |access-date=2025-06-02 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>

== Contents == Many of the original titles given by Browning to the poems in this collection, as with its "follow-up" collection ''Dramatic Romances and Lyrics'', are different from the ones he later gave them in various editions of his collected works.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}} Since this book was originally self-published in a very small edition, these poems are now always referred to by their later titles.

The poems were written between 1836 (possibly late 1835) and 1842.<ref name="jack"/><ref>{{Cite book |last=Browning |first=Robert |url=http://archive.org/details/browningpoetical00brow |title=Browning, poetical works, 1833-1864; |last2=Jack |first2=Ian |date=1970 |publisher=London, New York, Oxford U.P. |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-19-254165-9}}</ref>

{| cellpadding="5" |- |{{underline|{{small-caps|Original titles}}}} || {{underline|{{small-caps|Later titles}}}} |- |''Cavalier Tunes''— {{ordered list|type=upper-roman | ''Marching Along'' | ''Give a Rouse'' | ''My Wife Gertrude'' }} |''Cavalier Tunes''— {{ordered list|type=upper-roman | ''Marching Along'' | ''Give a Rouse'' | ''Boot and Saddle'' }} |- |''Italy and France''— {{ordered list|type=upper-roman | ''Italy'' | ''France'' }} | *''My Last Duchess'' *''Count Gismond'' |- |''Camp and Cloister''— {{ordered list|type=upper-roman | ''Camp (French)'' | ''Cloister (Spanish)'' }} | *''Incident of the French Camp'' *''Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister'' |- | * ''In a Gondola'' * ''Artemis Prologizes'' * ''Waring'' | * ''In a Gondola'' * ''Artemis Prologizes'' * ''Waring'' |- |''Queen-Worship''— {{ordered list|type=upper-roman | ''Rudel and the Lady of Tripoli'' | ''Cristina'' }} | * ''Rudel to the Lady of Tripoli'' * ''Cristina'' |- |''Madhouse Cells''— {{ordered list|type=upper-roman | &nbsp; | &nbsp; }} | * ''Johannes Agricola in Meditation'' * ''Porphyria's Lover'' |- | * ''Through the Metidja to Abd-El-Kadr, 1842'' * ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin'' | * ''Through the Metidja to Abd-El-Kadr'' * ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin'' |}

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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070310201202/http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/B/BrowningRobert/verse/dramaticromances/ Complete combined text of Dramatic Lyrics and Dramatic Romances And Lyrics]

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