The Poetical Works of Robert Browning Volume VII: The Ring and the Book, Books I-IV
, by Browning, Robert; Hawlin, Stefan; Burnett, T. A. J.- ISBN: 9780198123569 | 0198123566
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 8/27/1998
This is an edition of the first third of Browning's 21,000-line masterpiece The Ring and the Book , a poem which Henry James called a "monstrous magnificence." The editors throw new light on how the poet wrote this Italian murder story and give all the background annotation needed to understand it.