The Ring and the Book

by Robert Browning, Wylie Sypher (Introduction)

Overview

"With this book, M. H. Abrams has given us a remarkable study, admirably conceived and executed, a book of quite exceptional and no doubt lasting significance for a number of fields—for the history of ideas and comparative literature as well as for English literary history, criticism and aesthetics." –Harry Bergholz, Modern Language Journal

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393004335
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	09/17/1967
Pages:	508
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	1410L (what's this?)

About the Author

Robert Browning (1812-1889) was one of the foremost Victorian poets and playwrights.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chronology
Textual Preface

THE RING AND THE BOOK

• Book I
  Book II
  Book III
  Book IV
  Book V
  Book VI
  Book VII
  Book VIII
  Book IX
  Book X
  Book XI
  Book XII

Appendix A: General Notes
Appendix B: Initial Responses to the Poem
Appendix C: Textual Notes and Commentary
Select Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

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

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