Oxford English Texts: Browning The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VIII: The Ring and the Book Books V-VIII (Hardcover)

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.