{"product_id":"the-complete-works-of-robert-browning-volume-vi-with-variant-readings-and-annotations-hardback-9780821411377","title":"The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume VI; With Variant Readings and Annotations (Hardback) 9780821411377","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume VI\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWith Variant Readings and Annotations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobert Browning (Author), Allan C. and Susan E. Dooley (Edited by), John Berkey (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780821411377, Ohio University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 June 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e326 pages\u003cbr\u003e25 x 15 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The Ohio edition offers a virtual rare bookroom full of texts for any Browning poems where the determined critic can trace the author's changing intentions and craft.\" (Victorian Poetry) \"The editorial policy of the Ohio edition has always been completeness, with the recording of all variants, changes, and corrections made by the poet himself, and these volumes continue that aim with admirable care and painstaking attention to detail.\" (Journal of Browning Studies) \"The Ohio [Browning] is everything a reader could wish.\" (English)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn seventeen volumes, copublished with Baylor University, this acclaimed series features annotated texts of all of Robert Browning's known writing. The series encompasses autobiography as well as influences bearing on Browning's life and career and aspects of Victorian thought and culture.\u003cbr\u003e The sixth in the projected seventeen-volume work, this volume covers the second half of \u003ci\u003eMen and Women\u003c\/i\u003e (1855), perhaps Browning's most famous collection, and the entirety of \u003ci\u003eDramatis Personae\u003c\/i\u003e (1864), the first book Browning produced after the death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1861.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMen and Women II\u003c\/i\u003e contains several great dramatic poems on which Browning's reputation still depends, including \"Andrea del Sarto,\" \"Saul,\" and \"Cleon.\" It also includes the more intimate and personal works \"The Guardian Angel\" and \"One Word More,\" as well as the mysterious \"Women and Roses.\" The Brownings' shared interests in Renaissance art and nineteenth-century Italian politics inform the challenging \"Old Pictures in Florence.\"\u003cbr\u003e The publication of \u003ci\u003eDramatis Personae\u003c\/i\u003e was a key event in the rapid rise of Browning's fame in the 1860s, though the collection is marked by a welter of conflicting impulses that arose after the poet left Italy and his married life behind. The classic monologues \"Rabbi Ben Ezra\" and \"Abt Vogler\" are here, but beside them Browning placed the nearly surreal \"Caliban upon Setebos\" and the achingly self-regarding \"James Lee's Wife,\" one of the volume's handful of dramatic lyrics about betrayed or failed relationships. Also included are \"A Death in the Desert,\" which contributed to the intense Victorian debate about scriptural validity and religious authority; and \"Mr Sludge, 'The Medium,'\" Browning's ferocious, pyrotechnic exposé of a spiritualist fraud.\u003cbr\u003e As always in this acclaimed series, a complete record of textual variants is provided, as well as extensive explanatory notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574490394904,"sku":"9780821411377","price":53.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-complete-works-of-robert-browning-volume-vi-with-variant-readings-and-annotations-hardback-9780821411377","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}