Narrative poem · 1840

Sordello

by Robert Browning

Browning's long narrative poem in six books follows the thirteenth-century Mantuan troubadour Sordello through the Guelf and Ghibelline wars of northern Italy, and is chiefly a study of the growth and failure of a poet's soul.

Contents · 6 parts

• Book the Firstabout 1010 lines
• Book the Secondabout 1040 lines
• Book the Thirdabout 1040 lines
• Book the Fourthabout 1050 lines
• Book the Fifthabout 1040 lines
• Book the Sixthabout 890 lines

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