| Reviews |
| - 'The Ring and the Book
provides one of the most richly interesting reading experiences anyone could hope for.
' - A.N. Wilson, The Daily Telegraph
- 'Notes and apparatus are clear and well arranged: like its predecessors, this volume is a delight to use ... Hawlin provides tactful and erudite commentary. He is especially good at tracking references to the Bible and to classical texts ... The chief glory of this volume is the critical apparatus prepared by Tim Burnett.' - Notes and Queries
- 'The magnificent new editon of the poem ... Few men have listened to the voice of women with more intelligence or perception than Browning.' - A. N. Wilson, Daily Telegraph
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| Description | | - New source material
- Unrivalled access to the letters of Browning and others
| | In old age, Browning always referred people to The Ring and the Book
as his finest achievement. This is the second of the three volumes of the Oxford edition presenting this great Italian murder-story, including the monologues of the villain, the aristocrat Guido Franceschini, Pompilia his abused wife, and Caponsacchi, the priest who tries to rescue her from death. 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 (in Appendix B), allowing further insight
into Browning's engagement with history. The copy text of 1888-9 has numerous emendations to its punctuation, both those authorized by the poet in the last year of his life and those resulting from corrected compositors' errors, and these, combined with fourteen emendations to substantives, produce a text as near as possible to Browning's final intentions.
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Readership: Scholars and students of nineteenth-century English literature and those with an interest in the biographies of the Brownings
| Contents |
Textual Note to Books V-VIII
References and Abbreviations
The Ring And The Book, Books V-VIII
Introduction to Book V
Book V: Count Guido Franceschini
Introduction to Book VI
Book VI: Giuseppe Caponsacchi
Introduction to Book VII
Book VII: Pompilia
Introduction to Book VIII
Book VIII: Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis
A.
Appendices
Molinism
B.
Caponsacchi's Ancestry
C.
The Torture of the Vigil
D.
Yale Variants
E.
Compositors
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Robert Browning
Edited by Stefan Hawlin, Lecturer in English, University of Buckingham and
Tim Burnett, Manuscript Librarian at the British Library (retired)
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