The Poetical Works Of Robert Browning Volume Vii The Ring And The Book Books I Iv

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0198127898

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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume IV by Robert Browning Pdf

`Browning really comes back to life in the marvellous third volume of the new Oxford Browning', wrote John Bayley, choosing it as one of his Books of the Year for 1988. While Volume III included six of the eight Bells and Pomegranates pamphlets, the present volume completes the series and includes the most remarkable of all, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics. Here we find `Pictor Ignotus', `The Lost Leader', `The Bishop orders his Tomb', `The Laboratory', `The Boy and the Angel', and the first part of `Saul'. Also included are Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day and the essay on Shelley. As the Times Literary Supplement reviewer of the earlier volumes commented, `readers of a poet like this need all the help they can get; and Jack and Smith have provided it in abundance.' Each poem is fully annotated, and accompanied by a detailed introduction which provides information on the chronology of composition and on Browning's sources.

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : 416 pages
File Size : 40,9 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.

Author : Clara Dawson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192598127

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Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation by Clara Dawson Pdf

Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation argues that the dialectic and dynamic relationship between the periodical review and poetry creates a culture of evaluation which shapes Victorian poetic form. The mediation of poetry by the periodical review orients poets towards public readership and reception, heightening their self-consciousness about their audience and generating a poetics of publicness. Using methodologies associated with historical poetics and new formalism, the book examines the dialogues between poets and periodical reviews from the 1830s to the 1860s. It juxtaposes male and female poets and canonical and uncanonical texts. Challenging the critical binaries of fame and celebrity, the culture of evaluation posits a new way of reading Victorian poetry. It illuminates poets' engagement with the immediacy and inevitability of writing for the present and for the contemporary media through which poetry was read and disseminated. New patterns of reception were created by mass print culture and both poets and reviewers were preoccupied with reaching the newly constituted mass audience. The changes to the material forms of poetry (e.g. through the periodical or gift-book) and the subjection to the commercial imperatives of the literary marketplace encouraged bold experiment with verse. The book identifies three poetic strategies for articulating the preoccupation with a mass audience and the demands of mass media: voice, style and address. Chapters on voice, style, and address explore the development of poetic form in dialogue with periodical reviews.

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1021976687

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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning; Volume I by Robert Browning Pdf

Robert Browning was a prominent Victorian poet and playwright who produced some of the most memorable works of the era. Published in 1900, The Poetical Works of Robert Browning is a comprehensive collection of his most famous poems, including 'The Ring and the Book', 'My Last Duchess', and 'Andrea del Sarto'. Browning's masterful use of dramatic monologue and his ability to convey complex psychological states in his characters make him one of the most important poetic voices of the 19th century. 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 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. 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 : 316 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337142346

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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning by Robert Browning Pdf

The Poetical Works of Robert Browning - Volume III is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1868. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Author : Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:39000002827637

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The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Pdf

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0198123566

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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning by Robert Browning Pdf

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1551113724

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The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning Pdf

In June, 1860, Browning purchased an “old yellow book” from a bookstall in Florence. The book contained legal briefs, pamphlets, and letters relating to a case that had been tried in 1698 involving a child bride, a disguised priest, a triple murder, four hangings and the beheading of a nobleman. Browning resolved to use it as the source for a poem. The result, The Ring and the Book, is certainly one of the most important long poems of the Victorian era and is arguably Browning’s greatest work. Basing their edition on the 1888–89 version of the poem, Altick and Collins include the last corrections Browning intended before his death. In addition to a substantial introduction, this Broadview Literary Texts edition also includes selections from Browning’s correspondence, and contemporary reviews and reactions to the work.

Author : Frederic William Farrar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Church history
ISBN : UGA:32108009629356

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Lives of the Fathers by Frederic William Farrar Pdf

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : English poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:HWEKUC

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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: The ring and the book by Robert Browning Pdf

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UVA:X004194028

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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: The ring and the book, pt.1 by Robert Browning Pdf

Author : John Woolford,Daniel Karlin,Joseph Phelan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Robert Browning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Poetry, Modern
ISBN : NYPL:33433067366934

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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning by Robert Browning Pdf

Author : John Woolford,Daniel Karlin,Joseph Phelan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 54,7 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.