The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VII. The Ring and the Book, Books I-IV
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- Edition number and title :Volume VII. The Ring and the Book, Books I-IV
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 25 June 1998
- ISBN 9780198123569
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages398 pages
- Size 224x145x26 mm
- Weight 689 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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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 The Introduction draws on unpublished letters, journals, and working papers not examined by previous editors, to illuminate how the poem was conceived and researched, the range of people the poet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 The annotation presents new contextual matter, including unpublished letters relating to `Lyric Love', Browning's famous invocation to his dead wife.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original Italian text of Browning's second source, `Morte dell'Uxoricida Guido Franceschini Decapitato'; two previously unpublished autograph chronologies in which the poet worked out historical details of his story; and a new account of the biographical significance of the `Ring' image.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.
The Ring and the Book provides one of the most richly interesting reading experiences anyone could hope for.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
References and Abbreviations
Introduction to Book I
Book I: The Ring and the Book
Introduction to Book II
Book II: Half-Rome
Introduction to Book III
Book III: The Other Half-Rome
Introduction to Book IV
Book IV: Tertium Quid
Appendix A. The Old Yellow Book
Appendix B. The secondary Source
Appendix C.Autograph Chronologies
Appendix D. The Ring
Appendix E. Yale Variants
Appendix F. Compositors
