The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VII: The Ring and the Book, Books I-IV (Oxford English Texts: Browning)

This is an edition of the first third of Browning's 21,000-line masterpiece The Ring and the Book, a poem which Henry James called a "monstrous magnificence." The editors throw new light on how the poet wrote this Italian murder story and give all the background annotation needed to understand it.