The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume XIII: With Variant Readings and Annotations

by Robert Browning, Ashby Bland Crowder

Overview

In seventeen volumes, copublished with Baylor University, this acclaimed series features annotated texts of all of Robert Browning’s known writing. The series encompasses autobiography as well as influences bearing on Browning’s life and career and aspects of Victorian thought and culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780821411117
Publisher:	Ohio University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1995
Series:	Complete Works Robert Browning , #13
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Ashby Bland Crowder is Peace Professor Emeritus of English, American Literature, and the Humanities at Hendrix College. He is the author of the prize-winning Wakeful Anguish: A Literary Biography of William Humphrey and editor of Far from Home: Selected Letters of William Humphrey. With Jason David Hall, he edited Seamus Heaney: Poet, Critic, Translator.

Editorial Reviews

The sixth in a seventeen volume annotated collection of Browning's complete works containing the second half of Men and Women and the entire Dramatis Personae. The notes indicate variants and provide historical and literary background for allusions and referenced names, detailing such poems as "Andrea del Sarto," "The Guardian Angel" and "Women and Roses." The Dramatis Personae reflects both the increased fame Browning enjoyed in 1860, and the conflicting emotions of the poet who had left Italy, a married life, and perhaps a part of his romanticism as evidenced by the poems "James Lee's Wife," "A Death in the Desert," and "The Medium." Lacks an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

“The Ohio edition offers a virtual rare bookroom full of texts for any Browning poems where the determined critic can trace the author’s changing intentions and craft.”

-- Victorian Poetry

“The editorial policy of the Ohio edition has always been completeness, with the recording of all variants, changes, and corrections made by the poet himself, and these volumes continue that aim with admirable care and painstaking attention to detail.”

-- Journal of Browning Studies

“The Ohio [Browning] is everything a reader could wish.”

-- English

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