. The old yellow book, source of Browning's The ring and the . PUBLISHED BY THE Carnegie Institution of WashingtonJuly,1908 .0 CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTONPublication No. 89 GiltPublisher2SAg08 }t ^orb (§Aitimoti (preee BALTIMORE, MD., U. S. A. GENERAL PREFACE. The present volume has grown from an interest in TheRing and the Book, originating years ago in the instruction ofProfessor Hiram Corson. Under his direction I undertook amore intensive study of the spiritual significance of the poem,and embodied the result in my thesis for the doctorate, printedin 1894. The throbbing reali
. The old yellow book, source of Browning's The ring and the . PUBLISHED BY THE Carnegie Institution of WashingtonJuly,1908 .0 CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTONPublication No. 89 GiltPublisher2SAg08 }t ^orb (§Aitimoti (preee BALTIMORE, MD., U. S. A. GENERAL PREFACE. The present volume has grown from an interest in TheRing and the Book, originating years ago in the instruction ofProfessor Hiram Corson. Under his direction I undertook amore intensive study of the spiritual significance of the poem,and embodied the result in my thesis for the doctorate, printedin 1894. The throbbing reality of the Franceschini tragedyin the poem raised persistent questioning. How far was ithistorical fact, how far the imagination of the poet? Whatwere the contents of the book, so vividly described by thepoet? Fleeting glimpses of the volume in two subsequentvisits to England only served to strengthen my purpose toknow Brownings Book in detail. Later on, by the courtesyof Balliol College, I was accorded the privilege of free accessto the poets treasure-trove. The s
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