Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Commentary Upon Browning's the Ring and the Book
IN the following pages an attempt is made to discharge the two necessary and some Of the more or less optional functions Of a commentator upon such a poem as The Ring and the Book. The necessary functions are, firstly the explanation and illustration of the poet's thought and Jangage when either is not clear, and, secondly, the explanation of what may be comprehensively called his allusions among the miscellaneous optional functions here undertaken are literary appreciation and source-study.
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