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

ISBN-13: 9780821419816 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 492 str.

Allan C. Dooley; Professor Ashby Bland Crowder

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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.?

With this seventeenth and final volume, "The Complete Works of Robert Browning "concludes the major phase of a great scholarly project: the accurate preservation and transmission of the poet s works for future generations of readers. Volume XVII begins with Browning s last collection of poems, "Asolando: Fancies and Facts, "published on the day of the poet s death, 12 December 1889. Wonderful in its diversity and intensity, "Asolando "contains lyrics of startling emotion, autobiographical narratives, and a few of the dramatic monologues for which Browning had become famed.
Also in this final volume are ninety-nine fugitive pieces, either unpublished or uncollected during the poet s lifetime. Ranging from experimental poems of Browning s youth to Greek translations to joking couplets and witty ephemera, these works illustrate the endless variety of the poet s talent.
Finally, Volume XVII includes Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, a biographical essay that Browning coauthored with John Forster in 1836. The historical research done for this work formed a basis for "Strafford," a play Browning completed the following year. Comprehensive explanatory notes for the works in this volume are provided, as is a title index to all seventeen volumes of "The Complete Works."
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