A selective bibliography open access links on the British Victorian poet Robert Browning, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in editor or peer reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
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The Year's Work in Robert Browning, 2006, from Victorian Poetry. First few pages only, but the full article and other restricted access, scholarly articles can be seen by anyone with a library card, according to the website Access My Library
Recommended reading list for Robert Browning, from Oxford University faculty
Web site for the Armstrong Browning Library, at Baylor University, dedicated to the Victorian poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning. The site includes access to "The Brownings: A Research Guide," a comprehensive online research guide to all known Browning-related material, some 70,000 items
A brief note on Volume 15 (2007) of The complete works of Robert Browning with variant readings & annotations, edited by Allan C. Dooley and David Ewbank, from Ohio University Press. "As part of a projected 17-volume set presenting all the known writings of Browning (1812-1889), this volume features works from the later years of the English poet's life, when he focused on such themes as love, desire, faith, classical and British colonial history, and Middle Eastern tales that were in vogue then."
A brief note about The Poetical Works of Robert Browning Volume IX The Ring and the Book Books IX-XII (2004) edited by Stefan Hawlin and T. A. J. Burnett, from Clarendon Press, Oxford. "This ninth volume in what has become the definitive edition of Browning's works brings the poet's famous poem to its conclusion."
A guide to research resources from the Victoria discussion list for Victorian Studies
Anderson, James E. "Robert Browning's 'Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister': Themes, Voices, and the Words, Hy, Zy, Hine." Anderson contends that the poem "is not a failed experiment with nonsense-words for a climax, but rather a carefully conceived dramatic situation with a terrifying end." Victorian Poetry, Volume 35, no. 3, Fall 1997 (removed)
Bristow, Joseph. "Victorians in Theory." Professor Bristow reviews John Schad's Victorians in Theory: From Derrida to Browning (Manchester University Press, 1999). Comparative Literature, Winter 2001
Dupras, Joseph A. "Browning's 'My Last Duchess': Paragon and parergon." Papers on Language & Literature, Winter 1996, Vol. 32 Issue 1
Fontana, Ernest. "Sexual Tourism and Browning's 'The Englishman in Italy.'" On the relationship between the Englishman-speaker and the young Sorrentine female, Fortù, in this monologue. Victorian Poetry, Volume 36, no. 3, Fall 1998 (removed)
Fowler, Rowena. "Browning's Jews," On Browning's empathetic portrayals of Jews in his writing. Victorian Poetry, Volume 35, no. 3, Fall 1997 (removed)
Fulton, Lynn M. "The Standard of Flesh and Blood: Browning's Problems with Staged Drama," Fulton analyzes why Browning's plays are failures. Victorian Poetry, Volume 35, no. 2, Summer 1997 (removed)
Garrett, Martin. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning: Interviews and Recollections (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000). Publisher's blurb
Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology(Palgrave Macmillan, 1999). Publisher's blurb
Gray, Erik. "'Out of me, out of me!': Andrea, Ulysses, and Victorian Revisions of Egotistical Lyric." Covers Victorian responses to the problem of the lyric "I," focusing on Robert Browning's "Andrea Del Sarto" and Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses." Victorian Poetry, Vol. 36, no. 4, Winter 1998 (removed)
Hecimovich, Gregg. "'Just the thing for the time': Contextualizing Religion in Browning's 'The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church.'" Hecimovich considers the poem as Browning's examination of mid-century religious debate. In Victorian Poetry, Vol. 36, no. 3, Fall 1998 (removed)
Litzinger, Boyd and Donald Smalley, eds. Browning: the Critical Heritage (Routledge 1968, 2000). Reprints critical responses to Robert Browning's poetry from his contemporaries and later. From Google Books
Maxwell, Catherine. "Browning's Porphyria's Lover," Explicator, Fall 1993, Vol. 52 Issue 1
Petch, Simon. "Equity and Natural Law in The Ring and the Book." Petch examines theories of jurisprudence, human justice, and natural law. In Victorian Poetry, Volume 35, no. 1, Spring 1996 (removed)
Polette, Keith. "The Many-Walled World of 'Andrea del Sarto':The Dynamics of Self-Expatriation," On the myopic imagining of Andrea Del Sarto. Victorian Poetry, Volume 35, no. 4, Winter 1997 (removed)
Reynolds, Margaret and Barbara Rosenbaum. "'Aeschylus' Soliloquy' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning." Prints the fragment of poetry known as the "Aeschylus' Soliloquy" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and covers the history of its misattribution to Robert Browning. In Victorian Poetry, Volume 35, no. 3, Fall 1997 (removed)
Roberts, Adam. A substantial introduction to Robert Browning from the Literary Encyclopedia
Roberts, Adam. "The Ring and the Book: The Mage, the Alchemist, and the Poet." Roberts discusses Browning's use of alchemy as a metaphor for poetic practice. Victorian Poetry, Volume 36, no. 1, Spring 1998 (removed)
Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer A. " The Pragmatics of Silence, and the Figuration of the Reader in Browning's Dramatic Monologues." On the role of the auditor/reader in Browning's dramatic monologues and linguistic theories of silence. Victorian Poetry, Volume 35, no. 3, Fall 1997 (removed)
Whittington-Egan, Richard. In this review of Iain Finlayson's Browning: A Private Life, reviewer Richard Whittington-Egan notes "the real continuing interest in Browning revolves about the untangling of the complex of theologico-philosophical notions that fizzed in his brain." Contemporary Review, Sept, 2004
"The Brownings" in A Literary History of England, by Samuel C. Chew, A. Baugh, Richard Daniel Altick (1967), from Google Books
The Victorian Web has essays on Robert Browning's writing techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian background
A brief biography of Robert Browning from publisher Gale
A short introduction to Robert Browning and to Elizabeth Barrett Browning from a Public Broadcasting Service special
A brief introduction to Robert Browning from the Academy of American Poets
A biography of Robert Browning from Books and Writers web site, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
Cultural and historical overview of the Victorian period discusses the writings of Robert Browning and others, from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute (removed)
Old criticism of Robert Browning's works and a biography, from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21). His early years; On Pauline; On Paracelsus; On Sordello; On the dramatic element in his work; On Christmas Eve and Easter Day; On The Ring and the Book
Reprint of an 1886 critical study of Robert Browning by Hiram Corson, from Project Gutenberg
Reprint of an old Robert Browning biography, the 1891 edition of Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Mrs. Sutherland Orr, from Project Gutenberg
Reprint of the Life of Browning by William Sharp, a long critical and biographical study, from Project Gutenberg
Robert Browning, 1905, by C.H. Herford, from Project Gutenberg
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