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.

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 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.

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.

Hawlin and Burnett present the final volume in this three volume Oxford edition of Browning's great murder-story, The Ring and the Book. The commentary in this edition contains a wealth of new contextual material that illuminates Browning's work in sometimes surprising ways. The copy text of 1888-9, the final edition of Browning's lifetime, has been scrupulously examined, both in relation to compositors' errors, and Browning's own final corrections to the text.

This revised edition presents the history of the Byzantine Empire from the 6th to the 15th century, not merely in terms of political events, but also through the art, literature, and thought of Byzantine society. It emphasizes the constant tension between continuity and change, between conservation of the traditions of the Roman Empire of Augustus and Trajan and the Christian Roman Empire of Constantine and his successors on the one hand, and on the other, the need to react positively to the loss of the Latin-speaking west and the successive challenges offered by the Arab conquests, the...

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.?
The sixth in the projected seventeen-volume work, this volume covers the second half of "Men and Women" (1855), perhaps Browning's most famous collection, and the entirety of "Dramatis Personae" (1864), the first book Browning produced after the death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1861.
"Men and...

"The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume X" contains critical editions of "Balaustion's Adventure: Including a Transcript from Euripides and Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society." Both published in 1871, these two long poems take up a pair of subjects that held enduring fascination for Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: classical Greek literature and the career of Napoleon III, Emperor of France. "Balaustion's Adventure," which the poet characterized as merely a May-month amusement, was surprisingly successful with the reading public that paid more attention to Browning...

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.?
A single work, the complex "Aristophanes Apology" (1875), comprises the twelfth volume of "The Complete Works of Robert Browning." Second in Browning s series of long narrative poems based on classical Greek materials, Aristophanes Apology begins as a further adventure of Browning s young Greek...

The story of the peasant's son who became an emperor and the dissolute actress who resided beside him on the throne is one of the greatest and most controversial romances of history. United, they presided over a key epoch in the formation of Europe.