The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VII: The Ring and the Book, Books I-IV

by Robert Browning, Stefan Hawlin, T. A. J. Burnett

Overview

This is an edition of the first third of Browning's 21,000-line masterpiece The Ring and the Book, a poem which Henry James called a "monstrous magnificence." The editors throw new light on how the poet wrote this Italian murder story and give all the background annotation needed to understand it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198123569
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/27/1998
Series:	Oxford English Texts: Browning
Pages:	398
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.10(d)
Lexile:	1410L (what's this?)

About the Author

Stefan Hawlin is Lecturer in English, University of Buckingham Tim Burnett is Manuscript Librarian at the British Library (retired)

University of Buckingham

Table of Contents

IntroductionReferences and AbbreviationsIntroduction to Book IBook I: The Ring and the BookIntroduction to Book IIBook II: Half-RomeIntroduction to Book IIIBook III: The Other Half-RomeIntroduction to Book IVBook IV: Tertium QuidAppendix A. The Old Yellow BookAppendix B. The secondary SourceAppendix C.Autograph ChronologiesAppendix D. The RingAppendix E. Yale VariantsAppendix F. Compositors