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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning Volume IX The Ring and the Book Books IX-XII.(Book Review)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20040801
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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning Volume IX The Ring and the Book Books IX-XII. Stefan Hawlin and T. A. J. Burnett, editors. Clarendon Press, Oxford. [pounds sterling]85.00. xix + 408 pages. ISBN 0-19-818671-1. This ninth volume in what has become the definitive edition of Browning's works brings the poet's famous poem to its conclusion. The editors have examined the text of 1888-9, set it against Browning's corrections to earlier editions and errors by typesetters and made 108 emendations of which nineteen were substantive changes and the rest, minor. The four final 'books' ...

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