The Ring and the Book - An Interpretation
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)
Genre(s): Literary Criticism
Language: English
Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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Play 00 | Foreword | Algy Pug |
00:09:17 |
Play 01 | Chapter I - The Ring and the Book | Algy Pug |
00:15:59 |
Play 02 | Chapter II - The Story | Algy Pug |
00:06:12 |
Play 03 | Chapter III - The Method and the Spirit | Algy Pug |
00:11:23 |
Play 04 | Chapter IV - Half-Rome and the Other Half-Rome | Algy Pug |
00:24:29 |
Play 05 | Chapter V - Tertium Quid | Algy Pug |
00:19:49 |
Play 06 | Chapter VI - Count Guido Franceschini | Algy Pug |
00:37:22 |
Play 07 | Chapter VII - Caponsacchi | Algy Pug |
00:44:57 |
Play 08 | Chapter VIII - Pompillia | Algy Pug |
00:36:34 |
Play 09 | Chapter IX - Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis | Algy Pug |
00:16:58 |
Play 10 | Chapter X - Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius | Algy Pug |
00:17:17 |
Play 11 | Chapter XI - The Pope | Algy Pug |
00:36:42 |
Play 12 | Chapter XII - Guido | Algy Pug |
00:44:51 |
Play 13 | Chapter XIII - The Book and the Ring | Algy Pug |
00:15:33 |
Play 14 | Chapter XIV - Lessons of The Ring and the Book | Algy Pug |
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