The Ring and the Book - Softcover

Browning, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393004333 ISBN 13: 9780393004335

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1967

Synopsis

"With this book, M. H. Abrams has given us a remarkable study, admirably conceived and executed, a book of quite exceptional and no doubt lasting significance for a number of fields--for the history of ideas and comparative literature as well as for English literary history, criticism and aesthetics." –Harry Bergholz, Modern Language Journal

About this title

From the Publisher:

ISFN's Classics Again series hopes to bring great books that have been undeservedly forgotten back into the spotlight. We are delighted to have the opportunity to present you with a work that might have otherwise eluded your notice.

From the Back Cover:

In June, 1860, Browning purchased an “old yellow book” from a bookstall in Florence. The book contained legal briefs, pamphlets, and letters relating to a case that had been tried in 1698 involving a child bride, a disguised priest, a triple murder, four hangings and the beheading of a nobleman. Browning resolved to use it as the source for a poem. The result, The Ring and the Book, is certainly one of the most important long poems of the Victorian era and is arguably Browning’s greatest work.

Basing their edition on the 1888–89 version of the poem, Altick and Collins include the last corrections Browning intended before his death. In addition to a substantial introduction, this Broadview Literary Texts edition also includes selections from Browning’s correspondence, and contemporary reviews and reactions to the work.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0393004333
• ISBN 13: 9780393004335
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 508