Volume II contains
Stafford, a play seldom reprinted, and
Sordello, a poem commonly, but mistakenly, neglected as "unintelligible." The book looks at Browning's correspondence with Emily Hickey, the first editor of
Strafford, and important copies of
Sordello that help to shed light on Browning's attempts to revise the poem. Also included are such of the
juvenilia that survive.