The Poetical Works of Robert Browning Volume II Strafford, Sordello [Hardcover]

Volume II containsStafford, a play seldom reprinted, andSordello, a poem commonly, but mistakenly, neglected as unintelligible. The book looks at Browning's correspondence with Emily Hickey, the first editor ofStrafford, and important copies ofSordellothat help to shed light on Browning's attempts to revise the poem. Also included are such of thejuveniliathat survive.

The value of Jack and Smith's edition continues to increase with each volume. --Choice

...the fullest and most helpfully annotated text ofSordelloyet published. --Yearbook of English Studies

Jack and Smith have provided a reliable text that in my judgement best represents the poet's final revised text. I have no doubt that scholars will soon accept the Oxford English Text as the definitive text. --Journal of English and German Philology