The Ring and the Book

by Robert Browning

Overview

Browning's dramatic poem The Ring and the Book narrates the trial of a Roman for the death of his wife and her parents. He suspected his wife of having an affair with a cleric. The man appeals his sentence, though unsuccessfully. The poem is narrated by many different voices, each adding their version of events to the whole in a series of monologues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781775415664
Publisher:	The Floating Press
Publication date:	06/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	540 KB

About the Author

Robert Browning (1812-1889) was one of the foremost Victorian poets and playwrights.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chronology
Textual Preface

THE RING AND THE BOOK

• Book I
  Book II
  Book III
  Book IV
  Book V
  Book VI
  Book VII
  Book VIII
  Book IX
  Book X
  Book XI
  Book XII

Appendix A: General Notes
Appendix B: Initial Responses to the Poem
Appendix C: Textual Notes and Commentary
Select Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

To the established virtues of Altick’s 1971 edition—meticulous scholarship, judicious annotation, informative introduction and appendices—Altick and Collins have now made welcome improvements: an open and reader-friendly look with notes at the bottom of the page where one wants them; a score of reviews and letters from contemporaries hailing (sometimes assailing) the enormity of Browning’s genius; most important, a copytext based on the 1888-89 edition and incorporating the poet’s authoritative corrections. This should become at once the edition of choice for classroom or armchair use, and may in time incite a Ring and the Book revival.” — Herbert Tucker, University of Virginia

“Altick and Collins offer us the most reader-friendly text of Browning’s great work along with pithy, concise notes and splendidly compact, lucid background to the text and its creation.” — John Maynard, New York University

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