The complete works of Robert Browning with variant readings & annotations; v.15

Reference & Research Book News, August, 2007

The complete works of Robert Browning with variant readings & annotations; v.15.

Ed. by Allan C. Dooley and David Ewbank.

Ohio University Press

2007

306 pages

$70.00

Hardcover

PR4201

As part of a projected 17-volume set presenting all the known writings of Browning (1812-1889), this volume features works from the later years of the English poet's life, when he focused on such themes as love, desire, faith, classical and British colonial history, and Middle Eastern tales that were in vogue then. Volume 15 includes all variants of editions of: Dramatic Idylls: II (1883), Jocoseria (1883), and Ferishtah's Fancies (1884). Dooley (general editor of the series) and Ewbank, professors emeriti at Kent State U., provide useful brief explanations of references contemporary audiences may find obscure. The final volume in the series, published in association with Baylor U., will contain the index.

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