Ring and the Book - An Interpretation

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Literary Criticism

Authors: Francis Bickford Hornbrooke In Year : 1909

Book Language: English

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Foreword
Chapter I - The Ring and the Book
Chapter II - The Story
Chapter III - The Method and the Spirit
Chapter IV - Half-Rome and the Other Half-Rome
Chapter V - Tertium Quid
Chapter VI - Count Guido Franceschini
Chapter VII - Caponsacchi
Chapter VIII - Pompillia
Chapter IX - Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis
Chapter X - Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius
Chapter XI - The Pope
Chapter XII - Guido
Chapter XIII - The Book and the Ring
Chapter XIV - Lessons of The Ring and the Book

Francis Bickford Hornbrooke was an American Unitarian minister who in later years was recognized as an expert commentator on literature, in particular the works of Robert Browning. Of all Browning's output, it was his monumental epic, the Ring and the Book, which most attracted Hornbrooke's attention, and he said that " I have read the poem throughout at least thirty times, and every time with increased pleasure. The more I read it, the more I love it, and the less I find in it to censure." His interpretation of the poem is distinguished not only by the great expository and rhetorical skills of a celebrated preacher, but also by a deep and appreciative understanding of the passion and expressive mastery of the poet. ( Algy Pug)