This Cambridge Edition gathers Robert Browning's complete poetic and dramatic works, from his dramatic monologues to his verse plays. Across varied speakers and historical settings, Browning explores character, faith, art, and moral choice. It is worth listening for its vivid voices and demanding, rewarding language.
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The Cambridge Edition of the Poets EDITED BY HORACE E. SCUDDER BROWNING BY THE EDITOR THE COMPLETE POETIC AND DRAMATIC WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING Cambridge Edition Asolo: Browning's Italian Home BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
Copyright, 1895,
By HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton &
Company.
PUBLISHERS' NOTE
The Riverside Edition of the Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert
Browning was published first in 1887. It included all the writings which the American publishers had from time to time brought out by arrangement with Mr. Browning or his representatives. A year later the English publishers issued a new and revised edition, whereupon the Riverside Edition was carefully compared with the author's latest revision and made to agree with it. There had grown up, moreover, about the writings a considerable body of comment and interpretation, and to facilitate the study and enjoyment of the poems, the American publishers engaged Mr. George Willis Cooke to prepare a Guide-Book which served as a very desirable accompaniment to the
Riverside Edition of the works. They added also to the series, by arrangement with the English publishers, the authorized Life of the poet by Mrs. Sutherland Orr.
The ten volumes thus brought together furnish a complete Browning collection, but it has long been apparent that students and lovers of
Browning would find it very convenient to have the complete works of their author in a single portable volume, and the plan of the
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