The Poems of Browning: Volume Five. The Ring and the Book, Books 1-6 1st Edition

The Poems of Browning: Volume Five. The Ring and the Book, Books 1-6 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781317644507, 1317644506

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• ISBN-10: 1317644506
• ISBN-13: 9781317644507
• Author: John Woolford

The Ring and the Book, published serially in 1868–9, is one of the most daring and innovative poems in the English language. The story is based on the trial of an Italian nobleman, Guido Franceschini, for the murder of his wife Pompilia in Rome in 1698. Browning’s discovery of the ‘old yellow book’, a bundle of legal documents and letters relating to the trial, on a second-hand market stall in Florence, sparked an imaginative engagement with this sordid tale of domestic cruelty, adultery, and greed which grew, through four years of arduous labour, into an epic peopled not by gods and warriors but by concrete, recognisably human beings.

Table contents:

Book I The Ring and the Book
Book II Half-Rome
Book III The Other Half-Rome
Book IV Tertium Quid
Book V Count Guido Franceschini
Book VI Giuseppe Caponsacchi

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