The Ring and the Book (Penguin English Poets)

Browning, Robert

ISBN 10: 0140422943 / ISBN 13: 9780140422948

Published by Penguin Classics, 1989

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Review: "To the established virtues of Altick's 1971 edition--meticulous scholarship, judicious annotation, informative introduction and appendices--Altick and Collins have now made welcome improvements: an open and reader-friendly look with notes at the bottom of the page where one wants them; a score of reviews and letters from contemporaries hailing (sometimes assailing) the enormity of Browning's genius; most important, a copytext based on the 1888-89 edition and incorporating the poet's authoritative corrections. This should become at once the edition of choice for classroom or armchair use, and may in time incite a Ring and the Book revival."--Herbet Tucker

"Altick and Collins offer us the most reader-friendly text of Browning's great work along with pithy, concise notes and splendidly compact, lucid background to the text and its creation."--John Maynard

"To the established virtues of Altick's 1971 edition--meticulous scholarship, judicious annotation, informative introduction and appendices--Altick and Collins have now made welcome improvements: an open and reader-friendly look with notes at the bottom of the page where one wants them; a score of reviews and letters from contemporaries hailing (sometimes assailing) the enormity of Browning's genius; most important, a copytext based on the 1888-89 edition and incorporating the poet's authoritative corrections. This should become at once the edition of choice for classroom or armchair use, and may in time incite a Ring and the Book revival." -- Herbert Tucker, University of Virginia

"Altick and Collins offer us the most reader-friendly text of Browning's great work along with pithy, concise notes and splendidly compact, lucid background to the text and its creation." -- John Maynard, New York University

"To the established virtues of Altick's 1971 edition--meticulous scholarship, judicious annotation, informative introduction and appendices--Altick and Collins have now made welcome improvements: an open and reader-friendly look with notes at the bottom of the page where one wants them; a score of reviews and letters from contemporaries hailing (sometimes assailing) the enormity of Browning's genius; most important, a copytext based on the 1888-89 edition and incorporating the poet's authoritative corrections. This should become at once the edition of choice for classroom or armchair use, and may in time incite a Ring and the Book revival." -- Herbert Tucker, University of Virginia

"Altick and Collins offer us the most reader-friendly text of Browning's great work along with pithy, concise notes and splendidly compact, lucid background to the text and its creation." -- John Maynard, New York University

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Ring and the Book (Penguin English Poets)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good