The Poems Of Robert Browning Volume Five

Author : John Woolford,Daniel Karlin,Joseph Phelan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317644507

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The Poems of Robert Browning: Volume Five by John Woolford,Daniel Karlin,Joseph Phelan Pdf

The Ring and the Book, published serially in 1868–9, is one of the most daring and innovative poems in the English language. The story is based on the trial of an Italian nobleman, Guido Franceschini, for the murder of his wife Pompilia in Rome in 1698. Browning’s discovery of the ‘old yellow book’, a bundle of legal documents and letters relating to the trial, on a second-hand market stall in Florence, sparked an imaginative engagement with this sordid tale of domestic cruelty, adultery, and greed which grew, through four years of arduous labour, into an epic peopled not by gods and warriors but by concrete, recognisably human beings. Fusing the technique of the dramatic monologue, the form he had made his own, with the grandeur of classical epic and the vivid realism of the modern novel, Browning created a unique hybrid form that allowed him not only to bring to life an entire historical period but also to reflect on the process of artistic creation itself – the forging of the golden ‘ring’ of the poem from the ‘pure crude fact’ of its historical original. This edition, comprising volumes 5 and 6 in the acclaimed Longman Annotated English Poets edition of Browning’s poems, does full justice to the scope and depth of Browning’s achievement. The headnote in volume 5 gives an authoritative account of the poem’s composition, publication, sources, and reception, making use of hitherto unpublished letters and textual material. In addition to giving readers help, where needed, with historical and linguistic comprehension, the notes track Browning’s formidable range of allusion, from the most erudite to the most vulgar. The appendices in volume 6 present a selection from the original sources, a list of variants from extant proofs, and key passages from Browning’s fascinating and revealing correspondence with one of the earliest readers of the poem, Julia Wedgwood. The aim is to enable readers not just to understand the poem as an object of study, but to take pleasure in its abounding intellectual and emotional energies.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032160446

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The The Poems of Robert Browning: Volume Five by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

The headnote gives the most accurate and detailed account yet presented of the poem's composition, publication, sources, and reception, making use of hitherto unpublished letters and textual material. It enables readers to understand the poem as an object of study and take pleasure in its intellectual and emotional energies.

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 046000042X

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Robert Browning[sic] Poems and Plays by Robert Browning Pdf

Author : John Woolford,Daniel Karlin,Joseph Phelan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000545739

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The Poems of Robert Browning: Volume Six by John Woolford,Daniel Karlin,Joseph Phelan Pdf

The Ring and the Book, published serially in 1868–9, is one of the most daring and innovative poems in the English language. The story is based on the trial of an Italian nobleman, Guido Franceschini, for the murder of his wife Pompilia in Rome in 1698. Browning’s discovery of the ‘old yellow book’, a bundle of legal documents and letters relating to the trial, on a second-hand market stall in Florence, sparked an imaginative engagement with this sordid tale of domestic cruelty, adultery, and greed which grew, through four years of arduous labour, into an epic peopled not by gods and warriors but by concrete, recognizably human beings. Fusing the technique of the dramatic monologue, the form he had made his own, with the grandeur of classical epic and the vivid realism of the modern novel, Browning created a unique hybrid form that allowed him not only to bring to life an entire historical period but also to reflect on the process of artistic creation itself —the forging of the golden ‘ring’ of the poem from the ‘pure crude fact’ of its historical original. This edition, comprising volumes 5 and 6 in the acclaimed Longman Annotated English Poets edition of Browning’s poems, does full justice to the scope and depth of Browning’s achievement. The headnote in volume 5 gives an authoritative account of the poem’s composition, publication, sources, and reception, making use of hitherto unpublished letters and textual material. In addition to giving readers help, where needed, with historical and linguistic comprehension, the notes track Browning’s formidable range of allusion, from the most erudite to the most vulgar. The appendices in volume 6 present a selection from the original sources, a list of variants from extant proofs, and key passages from Browning’s fascinating and revealing correspondence with one of the earliest readers of the poem, Julia Wedgwood. The aim is to enable readers not just to understand the poem as an object of study, but to take pleasure in its abounding intellectual and emotional energies.

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198186479

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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VIII. The Ring and the Book, Books V-VIII by Robert Browning Pdf

This is the second instalment of Browning's great murder-story set in the Italy of the 1690s, The Ring and the Book, a poem which Henry James called a 'monstrous magnificence'. Here Browning lets the central characters of his poem - the corrupt aristocrat and murderer Franceschini, his victim, and her rescuer - tell the story in their own words.

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015045632612

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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume V. Men and Women by Robert Browning Pdf

This is the first scholarly edition of Browning's greatest collection of short poems, Men & Women. A comprehensive introduction shows how new research has unearthed material which throws fresh light on the composition and dates of such famous pieces as `Fra Lippo Lippi', `Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came', and `One Word More: To E.B.B.'. This edition uses a critical text based on that of Browning's final collection, and has detailed introductions to the individual poems. It is the fifth volume in the highly praised Poetical Works of Robert Browning.

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : Arkose Press
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1343844509

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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning, Volume 5 by Robert Browning Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1853264180

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The Works of Robert Browning by Robert Browning Pdf

Robert Browning represents the intellectual and argumentative strand in English poetry, in contrast to the more ornate style of Spenser and Tennyson. His poetry demonstrates that a poet must be a sharp observer of the human condition. The most moving poems deal with his feelings for his wife.

Author : Robert 1812-1889 Browning
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1372025308

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POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWN by Robert 1812-1889 Browning Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 1405845961

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The Poems of Browning: 1862-1871 by Robert Browning Pdf

The Poems of Robert Browning is a multi-volume edition of the poetry of Robert Browning (1812 -1889) resulting from a completely fresh appraisal of the canon, text and context of his work. The poems are presented in the order of their composition and in the text in which they were first published, giving a unique insight into the origins and development of Browning's art. Annotations and headnotes, in keeping with the traditions of Longman Annotated English Poets, are full and informative and provide details of composition, publication, sources and contemporary reception. Volumes one (1826-1840) and two (1841-1846) presented the poems from his Browning's early years, while volume three (1847-61) covered the period of his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett and residence in Italy. Volume four (1862-71) deals with the decade following Elizabeth's death and Browning's return to England. These years saw the appearance of some of his most significant work, and a steady rise in his critical reputation. In Dramatis Personae (1864), Browning uses his characteristic 'dramatic' mode to expose predicaments of thought and feeling, in characters ranging from Shakespeare's Caliban to the cheating medium, 'Mr Sludge'; other poems dramatize Browning's complicated feelings about the deceptions and self-deceptions of romantic love. Balaustion's Adventure (1871) is an engaging reworking of Euripides' Alcestis, whose theme, the resurrection of a beloved lost wife, has poignant personal resonance for Browning; while Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, published in the same year, offers a thinly-veiled account of the life and actions of Napoleon III, the recently deposed Emperor of France, over whom Browning and Elizabeth had quarrelled. In these two long poems, Browning can be seen engaged in the dialogue with Elizabeth that was to shape much of his work during the remainder of his writing life Volume five will be devoted to The Ring and the Book (1868-9), the twelve-book epic which many during the nineteenth century considered Browning's greatest work. When complete, The Poems of Browning will represent the most informative and up-to-date edition of the works of one of England's greatest poets. Daniel Karlin is Winterstoke Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol. Joseph Phelan is a Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature at De Montfort University. John Woolford is Professor Emeritus of nineteenth-century literature and culture at the University of Manchester and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield.

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Executions and executioners
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004530353

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The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning Pdf

Author : Robert 1812-1889 Browning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1361488581

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POETICAL WORKS by Robert 1812-1889 Browning Pdf

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1347071768

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The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning, Volume 5 by Robert Browning Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 134654557X

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The Poetical Works, Volume 5 by Robert Browning Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39076001949952

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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VII. The Ring and the Book, Books I-IV by Robert Browning Pdf

Henry James described Browning's extended dramatic poem The Ring and the Book, over 20,000 lines in length, as `a great living thing', `a proportioned monstrous magnificence'. The story was developed from some old legal documents discovered by Browning concerning an actual murder which took place in Rome in 1698, and its writing was his major preoccupation in the 1860s, the early years of his widowerhood in London. This volume gives us the first third of the poems, Books I to IV. The Introduction draws on unpublished letters, journals, and working papers not examined by previous editors, to illuminate how the poem was conceived and researched, the range of people the poet consulted, and the five-year period of composition. The poem's complex publishing history is disentangled in the Text part of the Introduction, including a discussion of the corrections and revisions Browning made on sheets from volumes I, III, and IV of the second edition, which he later forgot and which never appeared in print. Appendix E gives these important variants in full. The annotation presents new contextual matter, including unpublished letters relating to `Lyric Love', Browning's famous invocation to his dead wife. The appendices give the original Italian text of Browning's second source, `Morte dell'Uxoricida Guido Franceschini Decapitato'; two previously unpublished autograph chronologies in which the poet worked out historical details of his story; and a new account of the biographical significance of the `Ring' image. The editors have made six substantive emendations to the text, ranging from inaccuracies in the original typesetting to changes made by Browning after publication. The evolution of the text from manuscript to copy text is also discussed, and an appendix is devoted to a set of corrected proofs preserved at Yale, a textual evolutionary dead end of great interest and significance.