Description
This volume contains some of Browning's finest and best-loved poetry. All significant textual variants are recorded, and each of the "Bells" is accompanied by an introduction and full annotation.
'In the old editions one saw Browning's poetry, as it were, through the wrong end of a telescope: now it suddenly comes into focus under a high-powered magnifying-glass...Ian Jack and Rowena Fowler are making a collection as sumptuous as Aladdin's cave, wonderfully easy to read, and with introductions as absorbing as the poems and plays have now become.' John Bayley, London Review of Books
'The third volume of the Oxford Browning,well arranged and handsomely produced, continues the excellent standards set in the previous two volumes. One of the best features of this volume is the quality of the annotation.' Stefan Hawlin, St Catherine's College, Oxford. Review of English Studies