The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Volume 3 (Pippa Passes, King Victor and King Charles, Essay on Chatterton, Dramatic Lyrics, the Return of the Druses) - Hardcover

Browning, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821400843 ISBN 13: 9780821400845

Publisher: Ohio University Press, 1972

Synopsis

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.
Volume III contains Browning's dramatic piece, Pippa Passes (1841), which Arthur Symons said was "Browning's most perfect work"; another play King Victor and King Charles; A Tragedy, which Browning described as "the first artistic consequence of what Voltaire termed 'a terrible event without consequences'"; the "Essay on Chatterton," which appeared anonymously in the Foreign Quarterly Review in July, 1842; the play The Return of the Druses: A Tragedy (1843); and the short pieces of Dramatic Lyrics, which contain some of Browning's finest and most popular works such as "My Last Duchess," "The Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," and "The Pied Piper of Hamelin."
As always in this acclaimed series, a complete record of textual variants is provided, as well as extensive explanatory notes.

About this title

About the Author

Roma A. King, Jr. was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Ohio University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Publication date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821400843
• ISBN 13: 9780821400845
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 397
• Editor: King Jr. Roma A., Peckham Morse, Honan Park, Smalley Donald, Hulsman John