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

by Robert Browning, Ian Jack (Editor), Rowena Fowler (Editor), Margaret Smith (Editor)

Overview

This fourth volume of the acclaimed Browning edition, produced under the general editorship of Ian Jack, contains the remainder of Bells and Pomegranates: Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, Luria, and A Soul's Tragedy, in addition to Christmas Eve and Easter Day, published first by Chapman and Hall in 1850. Each work in the current edition comprises a useful introduction, textual apparatus and explanatory annotations, and in this volume, corrections and additional matter pertaining to the first three volumes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198127895
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/14/1991
Series:	Oxford English Texts: Browning
Pages:	478
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.81(h) x 1.22(d)
Lexile:	1190L (what's this?)

About the Author

Stefan Hawlin is Lecturer in English, University of Buckingham Tim Burnett is Manuscript Librarian at the British Library (retired)

Table of Contents

Textual Notes to Books IX-XII
References and Abbreviations
The Ring and the Book, Books IX-XII
Introduction to Book IX
Book IX: Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius
Introduction to Book X
Book X: The Pope
Introduction to Book XI
Book XI: Guido
Introduction to Book XII
Book XII: The Book and the Ring
Appendices
Appendix A: The Cadaver Synod
Appendix B: Yale Variants
Appendix C: Compositors
Afterword: The Truth Behind the Franceschini Murder Case, Michael Meredith and Simonetta Berbeglia

Editorial Reviews

"Excellent."—Times Literary Supplement

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