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The Ring and the Book is a long dramatic narrative poem, and, more specifically, a verse novel, of 21,000 lines. The book tells the story of a murder trial in Rome in 1698, whereby an impoverished nobleman, Count Guido Franceschini, is found guilty of the murders of his young wife Pompilia Comparini and her parents, having suspected his wife was having an affair with a young cleric, Giuseppe Caponsacchi. Dramatis Personae is a poetry collection. The poems are dramatic, with a wide range of narrators. The narrator is usually in a situation that reveals to the reader some aspect of his personality. Dramatic Lyrics is a collection of English poems, entitled Bells and Pomegranates. It is most famous as the first appearance of Browning's poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin, but also contains several of the poet's other best-known pieces, including My Last Duchess, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, Porphyria's Lover… Robert Browning (1812–1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, and in particular the dramatic monologue, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Robert Browning by G.K. Chesterton

Collections of Poetry:

Bells and Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics

Bells and Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances and Lyrics

Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession

Sordello

Asolando

Men and Women

Dramatis Personae

The Ring and the Book

Balaustion's Adventure

Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society

Fifine at the Fair

Red Cotton Nightcap Country

Aristophanes' Apology

The Inn Album

Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper

La Saisiaz and the Two Poets of Croisic

Dramatic Idylls

Dramatic Idylls: Second Series

Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day

Jocoseria

Ferishtah's Fancies

Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day