The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book

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, USA
Publication date:	06/28/1998
Series:	Oxford English Texts Series
Pages:	406
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

Introduction
References and Abbreviations
Introduction to Book I
Book I: The Ring and the Book
Introduction to Book II
Book II: Half-Rome
Introduction to Book III
Book III: The Other Half-Rome
Introduction to Book IV
Book IV: Tertium Quid
Appendix A. The Old Yellow Book
Appendix B. The secondary Source
Appendix C.Autograph Chronologies
Appendix D. The Ring
Appendix E. Yale Variants
Appendix F. Compositors