The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VIII: The Ring and the Book, Books V-VIII (Oxford English Texts: Browning) - Hardcover
Volume VIII of the Poetical Works of Browning is the second of three volumes of Browning's masterpiece, The Ring and the Book. The commentary, at the bottom of each page, elucidates Browning's creative and sometimes challenging use of language with reference to his correspondence, his historical sources, and his own rich experience of Italy. Previously unidentified allusions are fully explained, and a newly discovered source from a seventeenth-century Italian chronicle is presented for the first time, allowing further insight into Browning's engagement with history.
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Stefan Hawlin is Lecturer in English, University of Buckingham Tim Burnett is Manuscript Librarian at the British Library (retired)
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"This edition is more comprehensive and accurate than its parallel volume in Browning's Complete Works published by Ohio University Press."--Documentary Editing
Praise for Vol. VII: "...this volume includes an enjoyable introduction which offers a unique perspective on The Ring and the Book by drawing on unpublished letters and manuscripts related to its five-year production.... This collection is sure to become the standard upon which all critical studies of the poem will rely."--Virginia Quarterly Review
Stefan Hawlin is Lecturer in English, University of Buckingham Tim Burnett is Manuscript Librarian at the British Library (retired)
"This edition is more comprehensive and accurate than its parallel volume in Browning's Complete Works published by Ohio University Press."--Documentary Editing
Praise for Vol. VII: "...this volume includes an enjoyable introduction which offers a unique perspective on The Ring and the Book by drawing on unpublished letters and manuscripts related to its five-year production.... This collection is sure to become the standard upon which all critical studies of the poem will rely."--Virginia Quarterly Review
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- PublisherClarendon Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0198186479
- ISBN 13 9780198186472
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages424
- EditorHawlin Stefan, Burnett Tim
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