This fourth volume of the acclaimed Browning edition, produced under the general editorship of Ian Jack, contains the remainder of Bells and Pomegranates: Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, Luria, and A Soul's Tragedy, in addition to Christmas Eve and Easter Day, published first by Chapman and Hall in 1850. Each work in the current edition comprises a useful introduction, textual apparatus and explanatory annotations, and in this volume, corrections and additional matter pertaining to the first three volumes.
Textual introduction; References and abbreviations; Introduction to Dramatic Romances and Lyrics; Dramatic Romances and Lyrics; Introduction to Luria; Luria; Introduction to A Soul's Tragedy; A Soul's Tragedy; Introduction to Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day; Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day; Appendices: A. Browning's Essay on Shelley; B. Fugitives; C. Index of the titles and first lines of the poems in Dramatic Lyrics and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics; Additions and corrections to volumes I-III