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RICHARD HENRY STODDARD AND THE BROWNINGS

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From: Browning Society Notes
Date: 20080401
Author:Phelan, Joseph

In 1998 Andrew Stauffer published a carefully argued article drawing attention to the existence of a poem entitled 'The King is Cold', published in the American National Anti-Slavery Standard for 16 January 1858, and in the Liberator for 19 February of the same year, and attributed on both occasions to Robert Browning.1 Stauffer notes that at least one of these journals (the Standard) was guilty of attributing a poem of Robert Buchanan's to Browning in 1867, and also countenances the possibility that Browning might have 'attracted an American parodist or forger' as early as 1858; but, in the ...

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