Robert Browning

Nos revela a través de doce monólogos la intrincada historia de un crimen, desde el punto de vista del asesino, de su víctima, de los testigos, del abogado defensor, del fiscal, del juez y del mismo

Junto a Chaucer y Shakespeare, Robert Browning (1812-1889) fue considerado por Ezra Pound como uno de los tres grandes hitos de la literatura británica de todos los tiempos. La hondura psicológica y las innovaciones formales que introdujo en el discurso poetico dejaron huella profunda en la lirica inglesa y norteamericana del siglo XX, desde el propio Pound y T.S. Eliot a Louis Zukofski o John Ashbery, pasando por Dylan Thomas, Robert Lowell y John Berryman, entre otros. Editorial Universitaria ofrece aqui la edicion revisada y ampliada de la poesia escogida de Robert Browning, seleccionada y traducida por Armando Roa Vial. Completan esta antologia dos acuciosos estudios sobre la obra y vida del poeta, realizados respectivamente por Armando Uribe Arce y Braulio Fernandez Biggs.

Este es uno de los poemas más asombrosos de toda la literatura universal. En él lo primero que llama la atención es su desmesurada longitud, más de un millar de versos; pero cuando vemos que consiste en un debate monologado sobre la fe y la incredulidad, no nos extraña que el lector ingles de mediados del siglo XIX (se publico en 1855, dentro de los dos volumenes de Hombres y mujeres) diera la espalda a una idea tan insolita, por no decir extravagante.Un obispo catolico ingles, de sobremesa y entre vasos de clarete, se entrega a un largo soliloquio en presencia de un librepensador que ha escrito sobre el. La Apologia, con su utilitarismo pragmatico, que quiza Browning no se toma muy en serio, tiene un doble filo; tanto los agnosticos como los creyentes van a sentirse inseguros con este personaje; en resumidas cuentas, no sabemos si es simpatico o no, si estamos o no de acuerdo con el, si convence o no convence. Y el final abierto del poema aumenta las dudas en vez de disiparlas.

Antología bilingüe, recoge treinta piezas de uno de los poetas esenciales en el paso entre el romanticismo y el modernismo inglés.

Una nueva edición del tradicional cuento.

Features 42 works, among them a number of the Victorian master''s famed dramatic monologues, plus such memorable masterworks as "Love among the Ruins," "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and "Home Thoughts

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The Pied Piper of Hamelin (German: Rattenfanger von Hameln also known as the Pan Piper, the Rat-Catcher of Hamelin) is the subject of a legend from the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Lower Saxony, Germany, in the Middle Ages. The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in multicolored ("pied") clothing, who was a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe. When the citizens refuse to pay for this service, he retaliates by using his instruments magical power on their children, leading them away as he had the rats. This version of the story spread as folklore and has appeared in the writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Brothers Grimm, and Robert Browning, among others.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Ring and the Book (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Ring and the Book is a long dramatic narrative poem, and, more specifically, a verse novel, of 21,000 lines, written by Robert Browning. It was published in four volumes from 1868 to 1869 by Smith, Elder & Co. 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. Having been found guilty despite his protests and sentenced to death, Franceschini then appealsunsuccessfullyto Pope Innocent XII to overturn the conviction. The poem comprises twelve books, nine of which are dramatic monologues spoken by a different narrator involved in the case (Count Guido speaks twice), usually giving a different account of the same events, and two books (the first and the last) spoken by the author. Robert Browning (7 May 1812 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

Editor: Myra Reynolds

Hamelin Towns in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side; A pleasanter spot you never spied; But, when begins my ditty, Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk suffer so From vermin, was a pity.

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Illus.: Kate Greenaway

Editor: Franklin T. Baker