The Poetical Works of Robert Browning Volume VIII: The Ring and the Book, Books V-VIII

by Browning, Robert; Hawlin, Stefan; Burnett, Tim

• ISBN13: 9780198186472
• ISBN10: 0198186479
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-19
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

Volume VIII of the Poetical Works of Browning is the second of three volumes of Browning's masterpiece, The Ring and the Book . The commentary, at the bottom of each page, elucidates Browning's creative and sometimes challenging use of language with reference to his correspondence, his historical sources, and his own rich experience of Italy. Previously unidentified allusions are fully explained, and a newly discovered source from a seventeenth-century Italian chronicle is presented for the first time, allowing further insight into Browning's engagement with history.

Author Biography

Stefan Hawlin is Lecturer in English, University of Buckingham Tim Burnett is Manuscript Librarian at the British Library (retired)

Table of Contents

Textual Note to Books V-VIII	ix
References and Abbreviations	xiii
THE RING AND THE BOOK, BOOKS V-VIII	1	(2)
Introduction to Book V	3	(5)
Count Guido Franceschini	8	(93)
Introduction to Book VI	101	(4)
Giuseppe Caponsacchi	105	(98)
Introduction to Book VII	203	(5)
Pompilia	208	(86)
Introduction to Book VIII	292	(5)
Dominus Hyacinthus De Archangelis	297	(90)
APPENDICES
A. Molinism	387	(3)
B. Caponsacchi's Ancestory	390	(4)
C. The Torture of the Vigil	394	(3)
D. Yale Variants	397	(3)
E. Compositors	400