The Poetical Works of Robert Browning Volume IX: The Ring and the Book, Books IX-XII
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, GB, 2004
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The Ring and the Book, Browning's 21,000 line epic, is widely regarded as his masterpiece. This is the third, and final, volume of the Oxford edition covering this work, comprising the monologue of Johannes-Baptista Bottinius, and then the glowing conclusion to the work as a whole: the monologues of Pope Innocent XII and of Guido in his prison-cell prior to execution, and then the witty, ironic envoi of Book XII. 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: eighty-nine emendations to accidentals, and nineteen emendations to substantives, produce a text as near as possible to Browning's final intentions. Appendix A presents previously unknown source material, concerning the 'cadaver synod' of 897, from Browning's father's historical notebooks. The Afterword gives a fresh view of the real history of the Franceschini murder case, based on new research in the archives in Arezzo.…
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- Title
- The Poetical Works of Robert Browning Volume IX: The Ring and the Book, Books IX-XII
- Author
- Stefan Hawlin
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, GB
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
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- 0198186711
- ISBN 13
- 9780198186717
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- 722 grams
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[this edition] is an extradordinary work, both in its meticulous textual scholarship and in the detail of its attention to Browning's own exceptionally detailed imagining of the past. (TLS)
... the editors are to be heartily congratulated on a masterly piece of editing. (Contemporary Review)
The tradition of Browning studies initiated by the "Me Society" is bearing remarkable fruit in the magnificent OUP series of his complete works which has now reached volume IX, the concluding section of The Ring and the Book. (Literary Review)
The Ring and the Book is a wonderfully told and gripping story, in which, as this edition makes clear, Browning transforms his material into a drama of Jamesian scope and subtlety without ever losing the sense of earthy reality on which it is grounded. James was a great admirer: reading The Ring and the Book we can see why. (Literary Review)
The Ring and the Book provides one of the most richly interesting reading experiences anyone could hope for ... It is a true privilege to be alive in 2004, therefore, and to have lived to see the unfolding glory of the Oxford Browning under the general editorship of Michael Meredith. Stefan Hawlin and Tim Burnett have now come to the end of a three-volume annotated edition of the poem that is a superb feat of scholarship. (A. N. Wilson, "World of Books", Daily Telegraph, April 2004)
Whatever we make of the new discoveries, we shall never want to read this poem other than in the Oxford edition. A great canvas, long blackened by varnish, has been painstakingly and triumphantly restored. (A. N. Wilson, "World of Books", Daily Telegraph, April 2004)
Hawlin and Burnett have been scrupulous in their examination of the 1888-9 edition . . . The extensive annotations . . . are also illuminating, and certainly an improvement on the brief notes in the Broadview and Penguin editions. But the best things about this volume lie in its back pages. The first is an appendix that presents previously unknown source material concerning the cadaver synod from Browning's father's historical notebooks. The second is an afterword by Michael Meredith and Simonetta Berbeglia that presents a fresh perspective on the real history of the Franceschini murder case, based on new research in the archives in Arezzo. Both make significant and original contributions to Browning studies. (Tennyson Research Bulletin)
Hawlin and Burnett's concluding volume of The Ring and the Book is a magnificent achievement , accessible to the general reader and an indispensable scholarly tool. (Tennyson Research Bulletin)
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