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Critical Quarterly
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning
Volume IV: Bells and Pomegranates VII-VIII (Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, Luria, A Soul's Tragedy) and Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day
Robert Browning
Edited by Ian Jack, Rowena Fowler, and Margaret Smith
Price: £124.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-812789-5
Publication date: 24 January 1991
480 pages, 1 halftone, 216x138 mm
Series: Oxford English Texts
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| - '`excellent text produced in Oxford from Browning's last supervised edition with judicious editorial corrections. This is indeed essentially a purified version of the canonical texts we all know ... In addition, the editing is based on full reference to the Brownings' correspondence, manuscripts, proof sheets, and corrected copies of various sorts, and provides authoritative information about
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- '`excellent ... detailed in its bibliographical information'
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- '`All readers of Browning will have their appreciation enhanced by the fine work here. Like the preceding volumes, this one is meticulously researched and edited, ...The text as a whole is well laid out and easy to read. The editors have examined meticulously the 1888-9 text in the light of all previous texts and Browning's known corrections. What they give us is something as near as it is
possible to get to Browning's final wishes: the 1888-9 text without its blemishes. ... The annotation is excellent, never heavy or irrelevant, but always incisive and to the point; it comes out of a wide acquaintance with Browning's reading, and with all relevant contemporary matter.'Stefan Hawlin, Review of English Studies' -
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| Description |
`Browning really comes back to life in the marvellous third volume of the new Oxford Browning', wrote John Bayley, choosing it as one of his Books of the Year for 1988. While Volume III included six of the eight Bells and Pomegranates
pamphlets, the present volume completes the series and includes the most remarkable of all, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
. Here we find `Pictor Ignotus',
`The Lost Leader', `The Bishop orders his Tomb', `The Laboratory', `The Boy and the Angel', and the first part of `Saul'. Also included are Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day
and the essay on Shelley.
As the Times Literary Supplement
reviewer of the earlier volumes commented, `readers of a poet like this need all the help they can get; and Jack and Smith have provided it in abundance.' Each
poem is fully annotated, and accompanied by a detailed introduction which provides information on the chronology of composition and on Browning's sources.
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| Authors, editors,
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Robert Browning
Edited by Ian Jack, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Cambridge,
Rowena Fowler, Staff Tutor in Literature, University of Bristol, and
Margaret Smith, Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in the Humanities, University of Birmingham
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