The Poems of Browning is a multi-volume edition of the poetry of
Robert Browning (1812 -1889) resulting from a completely fresh
appraisal of the canon, text and context of his work. The poems are
presented in the order of their composition and in the text in
which they were first published, giving a unique insight into the
origins and development of Browning's art. Annotations and
headnotes, in keeping with the traditions of Longman Annotated
English Poets, are full and informative and provide details of
composition, publication, sources and contemporary reception.
Volumes one (1826-1840) and two (1841-1846) presented the poems
from his early years up to his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett,
including the dramatic poem Paracelsus (1835), which first brought
him to wide attention, and Sordello (1840), which confirmed him as
a poet of ambition and imagination. Volume three (1847-1861) of The
Poems of Browning covers the years of Browning's life in Italy with
his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning. During the fifteen years of
his marriage and self-imposed exile, Browning produced
Christmas-Eve and Easter Day (1850), a major statement of his
religious philosophy, and Men and Women (1855), his greatest
collection of shorter poems. The poems of Men and Women, like all
Browning's work, are steeped in his wide and idiosyncratic
knowledge of literature, music, art, history, and popular culture,
but a new and distinctive touch comes from the sights, sounds and
textures of ordinary life in Italy. Based on a comprehensive study
of textual and contextual sources, including a significant amount
of hitherto undiscovered or unpublished manuscripts of poems and
letters, this volume offers the most complete and informative
edition of works that are central to Browning's achievement. In
addition, Browning's most important work of critical prose, the
Essay on Shelley, is presented in an appendix with full annotation,
and poems which refer to specific works of painting or sculpture
are illustrated with colour plates. Volumes four presents the
poetry Browning produced during the decade following the death of
his wife, including Dramatis Personae, which heralded a
re-evaluation of his critical reputation, and The Ring and the
Book, which many consider to be his greatest work. The Poems of
Browning represents the most informative and up-to-date edition of
the works of one of England's greatest poets.
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