The Ring and the Book - An Interpretation

Francis Bickford Hornbrooke (1849 - 1903)

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
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
00:34:49