Volume I provides the first and final texts of Pauline carefully annotated with emphasis on the literary background of the poem rather than its supposedly authobiographical reference. It also includes the manuscript of Paracelsus in the Forster Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum printed here for the first time.
Volume I provides the first and final texts of Pauline carefully annotated with emphasis on the literary background of the poem rather than its suppos...
Volume II contains Stafford, a play seldom reprinted, and Sordello, a poem commonly, but mistakenly, neglected as "unintelligible." The book looks at Browning's correspondence with Emily Hickey, the first editor of Strafford, and important copies of Sordello that help to shed light on Browning's attempts to revise the poem. Also included are such of the juvenilia that survive.
Volume II contains Stafford, a play seldom reprinted, and Sordello, a poem commonly, but mistakenly, neglected as "unintelligible." The book looks at ...
This is an edition of the first third of Browning's 21,000-line masterpiece The Ring and the Book, a poem which Henry James called a "monstrous magnificence." The editors throw new light on how the poet wrote this Italian murder story and give all the background annotation needed to understand it.
This is an edition of the first third of Browning's 21,000-line masterpiece The Ring and the Book, a poem which Henry James called a "monstrous magnif...
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.
This fourth volume of the acclaimed Browning edition, produced under the general editorship of Ian Jack, contains the remainder of Bells and Pomegrana...
The fifth volume in the highly praised Poetical Works of Browning is the first scholarly edition of Browning's greatest collection of short poems, Men and Women. The editors provide a critical text based on that of Browning's final collection, and include detailed introductions to the individual poems.
The fifth volume in the highly praised Poetical Works of Browning is the first scholarly edition of Browning's greatest collection of short poems, Men...
Volume VIII of the Poetical Works of Browning is the second of three volumes of Browning's masterpiece, The Ring and the Book. The commentary, at the bottom of each page, elucidates Browning's creative and sometimes challenging use of language with reference to his correspondence, his historical sources, and his own rich experience of Italy. Previously unidentified allusions are fully explained, and a newly discovered source from a seventeenth-century Italian chronicle is presented for the first time, allowing further insight into Browning's engagement with history.
Volume VIII of the Poetical Works of Browning is the second of three volumes of Browning's masterpiece, The Ring and the Book. The commentary, at the ...