The Ring And The Book

The Ring And The Book
by Robert Browning

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JOHN MAYNARD, New York University
"reader-friendly text of Browning's great work along with pithy, concise notes and splendidly compact, lucid background to the text..."

HERBERT TUCKER, University of Virginia
"the edition of choice for classroom or armchair use, and may in time incite a Ring and the Book revival."

Book Description
Do you see this Ring? 'Tis Rome-work, made to match (By Castellani's imitative craft) Etrurian circlets found, some happy morn, After a dropping April; found alive Spark-like 'mid unearthed slope-side figtree-roots.

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Do you see this Ring? 'Tis Rome-work, made to match (By Castellani's imitative craft) Etrurian circlets found, some happy morn, After a dropping April; found alive Spark-like 'mid unearthed slope-side figtree-roots.

The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
More than 20,000-line poem by Robert Browning, written in blank verse and published in 12 books from 1868 to 1869. Considered his greatest work, it was based on the proceedings of a Roman murder trial in 1698. Each of the 12 books consists of a dramatic monologue in the voice of a different character involved in the story. Pompilia, a beautiful young woman, is so unhappy in her marriage to Count Franceschini, an older and cruel nobleman, that she prevails upon a young priest to help her return to her parents' home. The count finds them, has Pompilia sent to a convent, and banishes the priest. When Pompilia returns to her parents, the count arranges for the assassination of Pompilia and her parents. The count is arrested, tried, and executed.

About the Author
Thomas J. Collins is (along with Vivienne J. Rundle) co-editor of the Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory. He is also the co-editor (with John Pettigrew) of Browning: The Poems, 2 vols. (Penguin), and (with R.J. Shroyer) of A Concordance to the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning, 7 vols. (AMS Press).

Richard D. Altick is Regents’ Professor, Emeritus, at Ohio State University. He is the world’s leading authority on Browning, and he has written and edited many books on the Victorian era, including the Penguin edition (now out of print) of The Ring and the Book.

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