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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume IX: The Ring and the Book, Books IX-XII (Poetical Works of Robert Browning)
Stefan Hawlin
Tim Burnett
Hardcover. Oxford University Press, USA 2004-05.
ISBN 9780198186717
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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. Hawlin and Burnett present the final volume in this three volume edition of
Browning's great murder-story, "The Ring and the Book". Browning concludes his
poem with 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.
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