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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 20 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 90528 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 78 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19 Browning 18 God 17 life 11 man 11 love 11 brown 10 Paracelsus 10 Mr. 9 like 9 England 8 poem 8 Sordello 8 Italy 7 Robert 7 Mrs. 7 London 7 Florence 7 Book 6 work 6 Rome 6 Pauline 6 Miss 5 italian 5 Tennyson 5 Pope 5 Pompilia 5 Pippa 5 King 5 Footnote 5 Barrett 4 poet 4 good 4 english 4 Venice 4 Strafford 4 Shelley 4 Shakespeare 4 Kenyon 4 John 4 Euripides 4 Duchess 4 Church 4 Balaustion 3 world 3 woman 3 thing 3 look 3 letter 3 great 3 come Top 50 lemmatized nouns; 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"What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 world ''s no blot 2 _ is not more 2 _ is not too 2 _ was no man 2 man has no need 2 poem is not only 2 soul is not yet 2 women are not mothers 1 _ are not capable 1 _ are not more 1 _ are not quite 1 _ be no more 1 _ be not _ 1 _ did not _ 1 _ do not _ 1 _ do not directly 1 _ had not only 1 _ has no nearer 1 _ has no part 1 _ have no concern 1 _ have no importance 1 _ have no prototype 1 _ have no reason 1 _ have not _ 1 _ is no less 1 _ is not entirely 1 _ is not less 1 _ is not precisely 1 _ is not unsimilar 1 _ is not worth 1 _ made no very 1 _ show no symptom 1 _ take no care 1 _ think not indeed 1 _ was no sooner 1 _ was not _ 1 _ was not that 1 _ was not well 1 art are not only 1 art has no mission 1 art is no longer 1 art is not disputable 1 art is not real 1 browning did not so 1 browning did not wholly 1 browning did not yet 1 browning does not always 1 browning had no theoretical 1 browning had no university 1 browning had not before A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 14316 author = Brooke, Stopford Augustus title = The Poetry Of Robert Browning date = keywords = Alkestis; Balaustion; Book; Browning; Caliban; England; Florence; God; Italy; King; Nature; Paracelsus; Pauline; Pippa; Pompilia; Pope; Queen; Renaissance; Rome; Sordello; Strafford; Tennyson; art; brown; english; life; like; love; man; poem; work; world summary = BROWNING''S THEORY OF HUMAN LIFE--PAULINE AND PARACELSUS the art of poetry, we found that Browning--who had in long poems done not, like the other poets, change his view about Nature, Man and God. He its men and women, to paint the life of the human soul in it, to clothe life at a time when Greek art was decaying, or when a new impulse like imaginative thought and emotion concerning human life and the natural Then, at the end of the poem, Browning represents all Nature as full of pieces of natural description in Browning, and reads like one of his own of Art is as fascinating a subject as Browning the poet of Nature; even man arises--for, in characters like Sordello, personal love, once really of art, made in joy, in sympathy with human life, moved by the love of Browning''s Caliban is also something of a poet, and loves the Nature of id = 16182 author = Browning, Elizabeth Barrett title = The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 date = keywords = Browning; Chorley; December; Duchess; E.B.B.; England; Evening; February; Friday; George; God; Greek; Horne; Italy; January; Kenyon; London; Luria; March; Miss; Mitford; Monday; Morning; Mr.; Mrs.; October; Pisa; Prometheus; R.B.; Saturday; September; Sunday; Thursday; Tuesday; Wednesday; come; good; letter; like; love; post; shall; tell; think summary = don''t think I shall let _you_ hear, after all, the savage things about writing.'' Mind that spring is coming, for all this snow; and know me I took up this paper to write a great deal--now, I don''t think I shall What will you think when I write to ask you _not_ to come to-morrow, God bless you, my best, dearest friend--think what I would speak-God bless you, dearest friend--shall I hear from you before Tuesday? written it, having no better reason than because I like to write on Now, dearest, I will try and write the little I shall be able, in that letter to let you come the first time, do you know, the tears ran letter I have liked to read (so it was kind and good in you to let One of these days I shall write a long letter--on the omitted matters, id = 655 author = Browning, Robert title = Life and Letters of Robert Browning date = keywords = Asolo; Barrett; Blagden; Browning; Dr.; England; Florence; Forster; Fox; Italy; John; Kenyon; Lady; London; Lord; Macready; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Paracelsus; Paris; Pauline; Robert; Rome; Shelley; Sir; Society; St.; Venice; brown; english; letter; life; work summary = Son--Mrs. Browning''s Letters continued--Baths of Lucca--Florence Life--Letters from Mr. and Mrs. Browning--''Colombe''s Birthday''--Baths of Lucca--Mrs. Browning''s Letters--Winter in Rome--Mr. and Mrs. Story--Mrs. Sartoris--Mrs. Fanny Kemble--Summer in London--Tennyson--Ruskin. Bronson--Life in Venice--A Tragedy at Saint-Pierre--Mr. Cholmondeley--Mr. Browning''s Patriotic Feeling; Extract from Letter Four years later one of his English acquaintances in Paris, Mr. Frederick Locker, now Mr. Locker-Lampson, wrote to Robert Browning as This was vividly present to Mr. Browning''s mind in what Mrs. Kemble so justly defines as those ''remembering days'' which are the Mr. Fox--Mrs. Browning''s Letters to Miss Mitford--Life at Mr. Fox--Mrs. Browning''s Letters to Miss Mitford--Life at The news of his death, which took place in December 1856, reached Mr. and Mrs. Browning in Florence, to be followed in the spring by that of long answer to this grotesque accusation appears in a letter of Mrs. Browning''s, probably written in the course of the winter of 1859-60. id = 13088 author = Chapman, John Jay title = Emerson and Other Essays date = keywords = Angelo; Browning; Emerson; England; English; God; Juliet; Michael; New; Romeo; Shakespeare; Stevenson; Webster; Whitman; american; great; life; like; man; mind; thing; work summary = Let us remember the world upon which the young Emerson''s eyes opened. thoughts, and possibly the same thing holds good for society at large. individual." "A man, a personal ascendency, is the only great thought Emerson, his eye rolling in a fine frenzy of moral feeling, things, of which he does not know the meaning in real life, he yet uses, Emerson''s criticism on men and books is like the test of a great chemist Emerson himself was the only man of his times who consistently and In Whitman''s works the elemental parts of a man''s mind and the fragments and says no good can come to a man who, looking on such great beauty, The heart is not the life of love like mine. music, men and women, and his works are like the house of a rich man,--a speech, and new thoughts from life, and Stevenson used all his powers to id = 13342 author = Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) title = Robert Browning date = keywords = Barrett; Book; Browning; Carlyle; Elizabeth; God; Home; Italy; Mr.; Mrs.; Pippa; Ring; Robert; Sir; Sludge; Sordello; Strafford; brown; great; italian; life; like; man; poem; thing summary = On the subject of Browning''s work innumerable things have been said We do not want to know about a man like Browning, whether The real truth about Browning and men like him can scarcely be Browning, was a man of great delicacy of taste, and to all appearance Browning will appear to be almost the least educated man in English there was in the nature of things between the generation of Browning stature seems to have come into Browning''s life about this time, a man things to notice about Robert Browning is the fact that he did this The truth was that Browning had a great many admirably Browning for some five or six years, and the great epic appeared in might have been expected of a man of Browning''s great imaginative A man might read those two poems a great many times without happening Browning believed that to every man that ever lived id = 29365 author = Clarke, Helen Archibald title = Browning''s England: A Study in English Influences in Browning date = keywords = Avison; Browning; Bunyan; Carlisle; Charles; Church; Earl; England; English; God; Guendolen; Hampden; Hollis; House; Ireland; Jonson; King; Lady; London; Lord; Mertoun; Mildred; Mr.; Parliament; Pym; Queen; Retainer; Shakespeare; Sir; Strafford; Tresham; Vane; Wentworth; William; come; good; know; let; life; like; love; man summary = Like things, half-lived, catching and giving life. few days before he sailed from England; his intimate friend, Mr. Browning, was also present. Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war; Master Jonson (like the devoted minister, Wentworth, Earl Strafford, by Pym, the great leader in first scene that Strafford and Pym had been warm personal friends. meet him alone at Greenwich; where he began in a set speech to sound Mr. Pym about the dangers they were like to run by the courses they were in; "The Lord Deputy of Ireland doth great wonders, and governs like a King, Vane never knew that Wentworth, loved that man, _Lady Carlisle._ The King, dear Wentworth, purposes, I said, _Lady Carlisle._ For life or death I am your own, dear friend! _Strafford._ The King stood there, ''tis not so long ago, And shall the King want Strafford at his need? _Strafford._ I have loved England too; we''ll meet then, Pym. id = 38874 author = Clarke, Helen Archibald title = Browning and His Century date = keywords = Aristophanes; Balaustion; Browning; Chaucer; Church; England; Euripides; God; House; John; King; Morris; Mr.; Napoleon; Paracelsus; Parliament; Prometheus; Sordello; Spencer; Tennyson; century; english; greek; life; love; man; poem; poet summary = This search for God, Browning calls love, meaning by that conception of the nature of God. It was a stroke of genius on the part of the poet to present such problems to come fulfilment of all human aspirations toward Beauty, Truth, and Love degeneration in Browning''s philosophy of life, these poems place on a carried Browning, to the "great-hearted men" of the Long Parliament. gives feeling to Browning its mystical quality, and puts personal love Some day his soul will again be called into life by his ideal love. The poet frequently expresses a doubt of man''s power to be faithful to the Browning''s own ideal of the poet who makes others see was not completely poems on Greek subjects it is Browning bringing Greek life to our ken with Not as in Browning, that human love, That Browning is the poet who has given the world id = 35989 author = Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas) title = Browning and the Dramatic Monologue date = keywords = Athens; Book; Browning; Caudle; Duchess; Duke; God; Mr.; Mrs.; Saul; Shakespeare; Vere; action; art; brown; character; dramatic; expression; form; life; look; love; man; mind; monologue; poem; speaker; word summary = dramatic character, and are at times practically monologues. listener change places; the monologue has but one speaker, and can only poem the peculiar dramatic force of the monologue. very words of the poem, and the character of the speaker''s expression must monologue, for we must bring a living character into immediate action and monologues, and express the dramatic spirit. appreciation of the dramatic spirit, will feel that Browning''s form is the To realize more completely the general nature of dramatic art, let us note Burns''s poems often contain dramatic elements peculiar to the monologue dramatic or objective form peculiar to the monologue to give definiteness dramatic form, especially one of Browning''s great monologues, and not monologue also implies and suggests a real scene or moment of human life. As the monologue is a form of dramatic expression, it necessarily implies monologue, the character of its interpretation, and its uses in dramatic id = 12817 author = Dowden, Edward title = Robert Browning date = keywords = Asolo; Barrett; Bronson; Browning; Casa; Christ; E.B.B.; England; Florence; Footnote; God; Guidi; Italy; James; Kenyon; London; Miss; Mrs; Orr; Paracelsus; Paris; Pauline; Pope; Robert; Rome; Rossetti; Shelley; Sordello; Street; Tennyson; Venice; brown; english; italian; letter; life; love; man; poem summary = An attempt is made in this volume to tell the story of Browning''s life, [Footnote 11: Later in life Browning came to think unfavourably of speaks more like a youthful poet than any man I ever saw." Browning''s [Footnote 22: Mrs Orr, "Handbook to the Works of Robert Browning," p. Browning''s poems of the love of man and woman are seldom a simple "I never was happy before in my life," wrote Mrs Browning. later title under which they appeared among Mrs Browning''s Poems in the passion.[45] Mrs Browning''s letters croon with happiness in the beauty, life and development of humanity, and with Browning himself "power" was In the poems which treat of the love of man and woman Browning regards personae_ of Browning''s poem in like manner possess an enduring life, [Footnote 139: Mrs Orr, "Life of Browning," p. the last day of Browning''s life. id = 14618 author = Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold) title = Robert Browning date = keywords = Blougram; Browning; Caliban; Christmas; Dante; Day; E.B.B.; Easter; Florence; Footnote; God; Italy; London; Love; Men; Miss; Mrs; Paracelsus; Pauline; Pippa; Pompilia; Shelley; Sordello; Time; Women; Wordsworth; art; brown; christian; greek; italian; life; like; man; nature; poet; soul summary = detail of Browning''s life and poetry, from a more definitely literary Art was far from being as strange to the Browning of 1842-45 as love. And in the actual life of the Brownings "Nature" had to be content, as a The Nature Browning knew and loved was well within sight of humanity, significant as well as accurate; for Browning''s poetry of the love In his way of approaching love Browning strangely the text for the whole volume of Browning''s love-poetry; but the text is questioned whether all Browning''s poetry of love''s tragedy will live as Love, Browning''s highest expression of spiritual vitality, was all the springs of poetry none lay deeper in Browning than love; to the Browning, the poet of the divining imagination, is less apparent here and Shelley Love, so Browning saw Power. Browning as the poet of Love is thus the last, and assuredly not id = 13561 author = Jones, Henry, Sir title = Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher date = keywords = "[B; Book; Browning; Carlyle; Fifine; Footnote; God; Ibid; Paracelsus; Pope; Ring; evil; good; knowledge; life; love; man; moral; nature; poet; thing; world summary = fundamental elements, on which the moral life of man must always rest, But Carlyle saw only one side of the truth about man''s moral nature and failure the end implied in all God''s work, nature no less than man religion, is known by the poet to be only a phase of man''s best life. morality and religion, or the presence of both God and man in human The poet thus brings the natural world, the history of man, and the But in the light of love, man "sees a good in evil, and a hope in ill true of man, if he grows in intellectual power and moral goodness--that "Let man''s life be true," he adds, "and love''s the truth of mine." To Browning, that "love" is the ideal which in man''s life makes through thought, if the intellect of man cannot see the good in things evil, his principle of the moral life in man? id = 21247 author = Mayne, Ethel Colburn title = Browning''s Heroines date = keywords = Aristophanes; Balaustion; Browning; Caponsacchi; Duchess; Duke; Euripides; God; Guido; Jules; Lutwyche; Ottima; Pippa; Pompilia; Rome; Sebald; brown; come; day; know; life; like; look; love; woman summary = When they meet in the "new life come in the old The first words we hear her speak to that loved husband in relation to Browning''s love-poetry, and _Pippa Passes_ is not a in God''s love, for there comes back to memory an ancient New-Year''s "Truth is the strong thing--let man''s life be true!" Pippa''s song, have for the third time helped a soul to know itself. from Caponsacchi''s love what she needed: enough to save her life with-Browning believed in love as the great adventure of life--the thing sitting in his room alone, thinks of the woman he loves, and she comes there were few things about love that women did not know in the days of and knowing that that way is not to die, but live and grow, since love one touch of love for her once coming in those words and looks id = 41491 author = Naish, Ethel M. title = Browning and Dogma Seven Lectures on Browning''s Attitude Towards Dogmatic Religion date = keywords = Bishop; Blougram; Browning; Caliban; Chapel; Christianity; Christmas; Church; Cleon; Day; Easter; Eve; God; Love; Saisiaz; Setebos; christian; life; section summary = Truth absolute, IV-IX--God revealed in Nature as _Power_ human nature and life--must of necessity be co-extensive with his work. lower and inconscious forms of life." To the Supreme Power beyond man, as to the world of animal life below, is denied "man''s distinctive mark," man, the product of Greek intellectual life and culture, has hardly passed experience teaches us that man at supreme moments of life craves for some on which character and life alike shall develop. By life and man''s free will, God gave for that! appeal to the intellect, and faith inspiring life, the ultimate results of human life, its purpose--as Browning ever regards it--would be annulled. momentous questions of Life and Faith. regarded as the expression of Browning''s own theory of life? If death is not the ending of the soul''s life, what is the _nature_ character of this present life, with its possibilities for spiritual id = 14498 author = Orr, Sutherland, Mrs. title = A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) date = keywords = Aristophanes; Balaustion; Bishop; Browning; Charles; Church; Co.; Count; Dramatic; Duchess; England; Euripides; Florence; Footnote; Franceschini; God; Guido; John; King; Men; Mr.; Paracelsus; Personæ; Pompilia; Pope; Prince; Robert; Romances; Rome; Sordello; St.; Tragedy; life; love; lyric; poem; woman; work summary = had not the fact appeared to me self-evident, that I owe to Mr. Browning''s kindness all the additional matter which my own reading could the forms of real life, in the supposed experiences of men and women. that love of the unusual which is so striking to every reader of Mr. Browning''s works; and we might characterize these in a few words, by ambition is of its nature poetic, and seems so much in harmony with Mr. Browning''s mind--young and untutored by experience as it then was, full love of real life and adventure which inspired his boyish dreams. No man is "great" or "small" in the sight of God--each life being other than God: who for love''s sake had taken human form, and worked and continuity of the soul''s life; and represent love as a condition of "Another Way of Love." ("Dramatic Lyrics." Published in "Men id = 9067 author = Phelps, William Lyon title = Robert Browning: How to Know Him date = keywords = Andrea; Browning; Dramatic; Duke; Florence; God; III; King; Lyrics; Mrs.; Pauline; Pope; Rafael; Ring; Roland; Saul; Tennyson; Tower; brown; eye; good; great; life; like; live; look; love; man; poem; time; work; world summary = Robert Browning is one of the greatest love stories in the world''s Did she live and love it all her life-time? Mrs. Browning''s life, published that year, It appears that "she was Browning''s dramatic lyrics differ from Tennyson''s short poems as the "I end with--Love is all and Death is nought!" quoth She. The same thought--the dramatic contrast between the free spirit and Browning, the poet of the mind, loves best of all in his women and his life like a star of various colors; but the moment the world This grown man eyes the world now like a child. Browning loved a paradox with all his heart. published on the last day of Browning''s life, How good is man''s life, the mere living! I report, as a man may of God''s work--all''s love, yet all''s law. like a man in absolute leisure, turns his thoughts to God. He id = 14476 author = Sharp, William title = Life of Robert Browning date = keywords = Barrett; Book; Browning; Casa; Charles; God; Guidi; Italy; John; London; Magazine; Miss; Monthly; Mr.; Mrs.; N.S.; Papers; Paracelsus; Pauline; Pippa; Portrait; Review; Robert; Shelley; Society; Sordello; Strafford; William; brown; introduction; life; poet; read; woman; work summary = artist, poet, critic, student; Mr. Browning''s opinion of his son''s the poet; Macready''s opinion of the poem; Browning spends New Year''s Browning''s three great dramatic poems; "The Ring and the Book" his Early life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning; born in 1820; the chief sorrow poet-laureateship on Mrs. Browning; return to London; winter in Paris; last poem, "North and South"; death of Mrs. Browning at Casa Guidi, 28th written; Browning''s growing popularity; Tauchnitz editions of his poems that the great days had passed away even before Robert Browning and In his early years Browning had always a great liking for walking in the poems, long and short, produced by Robert Browning. of the poets of England--"Mr. Robert Browning, the author of Browning''s three great dramatic poems, as distinct from his poetic Lyrical and Dramatic Poems selected from the works of Robert Browning. Poem "To Robert Browning," vol. id = 17608 author = Symons, Arthur title = An Introduction to the Study of Browning date = keywords = Andrea; Book; Browning; Co.; Dramatic; Elder; Euripides; Footnote; God; Guido; Love; Men; Mr.; Paracelsus; Poetical; Pompilia; Robert; Shakespeare; Smith; Society; Sordello; St.; Tragedy; Vol; Women; Works; brown; italian; life; like; man; poem summary = Browning''s works are not a mere collection of poems, they are lies between his soul and God. The poet, in Browning''s view of him, is think of Browning (as people once thought of Shakespeare) as a poet of Browning''s poems are there so many individual lines and single passages _Dramatic Lyrics_, Browning''s first volume of short poems, contains some A poem of quite another order of art, a life-like sketch rather than a first of the love-songs in long lines which Browning wrote so often at _Dramatic Romances_, Browning''s second volume of miscellaneous poems, is touching and sympathetic little poem is Browning''s only detailed find in this poem an exception to the rule of Browning''s work so a very good likeness of a poet of Browning''s order. do not think Browning has written many lyrical poems of more brilliant most of Browning''s love poems the emotion is complex, the situation more id = 30671 author = Whiting, Lilian title = The Brownings, Their Life and Art date = keywords = Barrett; Book; Bronson; Browning; Casa; Corson; Dr.; Edith; Elizabeth; England; Florence; God; Guidi; Italy; Kenyon; Lady; Landor; Leigh; London; Lord; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Paracelsus; Paris; Penini; Robert; Rome; Story; Tennyson; Venice; brown; illustration; italian; life summary = to Miss Barrett--The Poets Meet--Letters of Robert Browning The family friendship with Carlyle was a source of great pleasure to Mrs. Browning, the poet''s mother, and there is on record a night when Carlyle LYRICS"--BROWNING''S FIRST LETTER TO MISS BARRETT--THE POETS MEET-life," said Mrs. Browning laughingly, "and the society of little dogs The ideal and poetic life of Mrs. Browning, so far from isolating her from the ordinary day and daylight The picture of one day is suggested by Mrs. Browning''s description in a letter to Miss Mitford, where she writes: The English society then in Florence was, as Mrs. Browning wrote to Miss Mitford, "kept up much after the old English Page begged to paint a portrait of the poet, of which Mrs. Browning said that he "painted a picture of Robert like an Italian, and "What comes from God has life in it," said Mrs. Browning, "and certainly from the growth of all living things, spiritual id = 40440 author = nan title = A Day with Browning date = keywords = Browning; God; Venice; day; illustration; love summary = [Illustration: A Day with Browning] [Illustration: A DAY WITH THE POET BROWNING A DAY WITH BROWNING. day: he was a man of singularly methodical habits in many ways. poems dealing with out-door life,--little touches of detail such as Arrived at the public gardens, Browning was careful to visit his Sarianna Browning had always been the best of sisters to the poet and And in all his poems which deal with the love of man and woman, "he life." He thought of love "as a supreme possession in itself, and as a Comes now, beneath thine eyes, and on thy breast. Who knows but the world may end to-night? In the new life come in the old one''s stead. Art, in its various manifestations, had been a life-long study with Love, we are in God''s hand. Here you come with your old music, and here''s all the good it