Science in Browning

The following are some references to scientific matters in the poet’s works appended to my e ay on “Browning as a Scientific Poet” in Browning’s Me age to his Time . The list of references makes no pretension to be an exhaustive one—it could be considerably amplified by a careful reperusal of the works—but it will suffice for the purpose:— Anatomy. —Poems, v., p. 152; vi., p. 158. Fifine, p. 68. Astronomy. —Prince H. S., p. 96. Sordello, pp. 187, 188. Botany. —Poems, i., p. 194; v., pp. 193, 208, 228, 312. Fifine, p. 14. Sordello, p. 20. Chemistry. —Poems, iii., pp. 219, 220; iv., p. 238; v., pp. 155, 156. Prince H. S., pp. 44, 91. Red Cotton, p. 196. Croisic, pp. 90, 92. Fifine, pp. 65, 97, 130. Ferishtah, pp. 39, 40, 45, 76. Pippa P., p. 250. Sordello, p. 194. Ring and Book, i., p. 2. Electricity. —Poems, vi., pp. 183, 203. Red Cotton, p. 196. Fifine, p. 115. Evolution. —Poems, i., p. 188. Prince H. S., p. 68. Fifine, p. 162. La Saisiaz, p. 57. Light. —Poems, iii., p. 170. Jocoseria, p. 124. Fifine, pp. 65, 29. Numpholeptos, p. 101. Ring and Book, i., p. 71; iii., p. 170; iv., pp. 57, 79. Materia Medica and Therapeutics. —Pietro of Abano, p. 84. Prince H. S., p. 77. Para cels us, p. 111. Medicine. —Poems, iv., p. 273; v., p. 220. Dramatic Idyls, ii., preface. Red Cotton, p. 199. Ferishtah, pp. 27, 55, 56. Ring and Book, iv., p. 12. Pharmacy. —Poems, iii., p. 96; v., p. 220. Physiology. —Poems, v., p. 191. Sordello, p. 195. Tray. Scientific Matters in General. —Poems, v., pp. 128, 302; vi., p. 203. Dramatic Idyls, ii., p. 68. Fifine, pp. 51, 86. La Saisiaz, pp. 69, 82. Ferishtah, p. 131. Sordello, pp. 25, 203. Ring and Book, iv., pp. 61, 77, 180. The references are to the six-volume edition of the poems, and to the original separate editions of the larger works.