The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume III: With Variant Readings And Annotations

by Robert Browning, Roma A. King Jr., Morse Peckham, Park Honan, Donald Smalley

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780821400845
Publisher:	Ohio University Press
Publication date:	05/10/1972
Series:	Complete Works Robert Browning , #3
Edition description:	1
Pages:	397
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

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

Editorial Reviews

The Ohio edition offers a virtual rare bookroom full of texts for any Browning poems where the determined critic can trace the author’s changing intentions and craft.”—Victorian Poetry


“The editorial policy of the Ohio edition has always been completeness, with the recording of all variants, changes, and corrections made by the poet himself, and these volumes continue that aim with admirable care and painstaking attention to detail.”—Journal of Browning Studies


“The Ohio [Browning] is everything a reader could wish.”—English

From the Publisher

The sixth in a seventeen volume annotated collection of Browning's complete works containing the second half of Men and Women and the entire Dramatis Personae. The notes indicate variants and provide historical and literary background for allusions and referenced names, detailing such poems as "Andrea del Sarto," "The Guardian Angel" and "Women and Roses." The Dramatis Personae reflects both the increased fame Browning enjoyed in 1860, and the conflicting emotions of the poet who had left Italy, a married life, and perhaps a part of his romanticism as evidenced by the poems "James Lee's Wife," "A Death in the Desert," and "The Medium." Lacks an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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