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`Browning really comes back to life in the marvellous third volume
of the new Oxford Browning', wrote John Bayley, choosing it as one
of his Books of the Year for 1988. While Volume III included six of
the eight Bells and Pomegranates pamphlets, the present volume
completes the series and includes the most remarkable of all,
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics. Here we find `Pictor Ignotus', `The
Lost Leader', `The Bishop orders his Tomb', `The Laboratory', `The
Boy and the Angel', and the first part of `Saul'. Also included are
Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day and the essay on Shelley. As the Times
Literary Supplement reviewer of the earlier volumes commented,
`readers of a poet like this need all the help they can get; and
Jack and Smith have provided it in abundance.' Each poem is fully
annotated, and accompanied by a detailed introduction which
provides information on the chronology of composition and on
Browning's sources.
This volume contains six of the eight Bells and Pomegranates,
modestly-priced pamphlets published by Edward Moxon in a bid to
help Browning recover from the ridicule which greeted the first
appearance of Sordello. It includes Pippa Passes, four other
dramatic works, and Dramatic Lyrics, the first of the great
collections of short poems with which Browning established his
reputation. In addition, a version of a poem on the Pied Piper by
Browning's father is here printed for the first time. All
significant textual variants are recorded, and each of the Bells is
accompanied by an introduction and by full annotation. New
information throws further light on this most important period in
Browning's poetic career.
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