By Robert Browning
Edited by Roma A. King Jr., Gordon Pitts, and John Berkey
“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
In 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.
Volume II contains Browning’s play, Strafford: An Historical Tragedy (1837), and the long poem, Sordello (1840). Strafford was Browning’s first play, based on the tragic life of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford. The editors note that the play had only four performances, “undoubtedly due… to its esoteric subject and bad acting.” Sordello is a fictionalized version of the life of Sordello da Goito, a 13th century Italian troubadour. The poem itself was famously known for being “difficult.”
As always in this acclaimed series, a complete record of textual variants is provided, as well as extensive explanatory notes.
Roma A. King, Jr. was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Ohio University. More info →
John Berkey is Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University. More info →
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978-0-8214-0074-6
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Release date: April 1971
422 pages
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978-0-8214-4023-0
Release date: April 1971
422 pages
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