The Ring and the BookBroadview Press, 2001 - 824 Seiten In June, 1860, Browning purchased an “old yellow book” from a bookstall in Florence. The book contained legal briefs, pamphlets, and letters relating to a case that had been tried in 1698 involving a child bride, a disguised priest, a triple murder, four hangings and the beheading of a nobleman. Browning resolved to use it as the source for a poem. The result, The Ring and the Book, is certainly one of the most important long poems of the Victorian era and is arguably Browning’s greatest work. Basing their edition on the 1888–89 version of the poem, Altick and Collins include the last corrections Browning intended before his death. In addition to a substantial introduction, this Broadview Literary Texts edition also includes selections from Browning’s correspondence, and contemporary reviews and reactions to the work. |
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... priest , Spent two days and two nights alone with him : Leave what came after ! " He stands hard to throw . 830 Moreover priests are merely flesh and blood ; When we get weakness , and no guilt beside , ' Tis no such great ill - fortune ...
... priest , scot - free not one shall ' scape , Yet priest , wife , husband , boast the unbroken head From application of our excellent oil : So that , whatever be the fact , in fine , We make no miss of justice in a sort . First , let the ...
... Priest might be of 1610 The more when he's a friend too , —she called me Far beyond " friend . " Come , let me see her — indeed It is my duty , being a priest : I hope I stand confessed , established , proved a priest ? My punishment ...