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

by Robert Browning, Michael Bright (Contribution by), Paul Turner (Contribution by), John Berkey (Contribution by), David Ewbank (Contribution by)

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.

Volume XIV of The Complete Works of Robert Browning records a transition in the poet’s career. With The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1877), Browning ended his experiments with classical sources, creating his “transcript” — not quite a translation — of the Greek original and providing an intriguing explanation for his approach. La Saisiaz, the deeply personal expression of Browning’s shock at the sudden death of a dear friend, was published in 1878 with The Two Poets of Croisic, an extended ironic meditation on literary fame. Browning’s collection of six poems under the title Dramatic Idyls (1879) marks the poet’s return to the dramatic forms he perfected in Men and Women and Dramatis Personae, and a revival of his interest in the psychology of motives.

As always in this acclaimed series, a complete record of textual variants is provided, as well as extensive explanatory notes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780821414736
Publisher:	Ohio University Press
Publication date:	05/11/2003
Series:	Complete Works Robert Browning , #14
Edition description:	1
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

John Berkey is Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University.

Paul Turner, Fellow Emeritus of Linacre College, Oxford, edited Browning's Men and Women in 1972 and is the author of The Life of Thomas Hardy (1998).

Michael Bright is a professor emeritus at Eastern Kentucky University. He has written books and articles on nineteenth-century literature and Gothic Revival architecture.

David Ewbank is professor emeritus at Kent State University.

Table of Contents

	Preface	vii
	Tables	xxi
	Acknowledgments	xxvi
	The Agamemnon of AEschylus	3
	La Saisiaz and the Two Poets of Croisic	93
	La Saisiaz	97
	The Two Poets of Croisic	127
	Dramatic Idyls, First Series	211
	Martin Relph	215
	Pheidippides	224
	Halbert and Hob	230
	Ivan Ivanovich	233
	Tray	249
	Ned Bratts	251
	Editorial Notes
	The Agamemnon of AEschylus	263
	La Saisiaz	394
	The Two Poets of Croisic	408
	Dramatic Idyls, First Series	433

Editorial Reviews

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 detai


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

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