The Ring and the Book (Broadview literary texts)
"To the established virtues of Altick's 1971 edition—meticulous scholarship, judicious annotation, informative introduction and appendices—Altick and Collins have now made welcome improvements: an open and reader-friendly look with notes at the bottom of the page where one wants them; a score of reviews and letters from contemporaries hailing (sometimes assailing) the enormity of Browning's genius; most important, a copytext based on the 1888-89 edition and incorporating the poet's authoritative corrections. This should become at once the edition of choice for classroom or armchair use, and may in time incite a Ring and the Book revival." (Herbet Tucker)"Altick and Collins offer us the most reader-friendly text of Browning's great work along with pithy, concise notes and splendidly compact, lucid background to the text and its creation." (John Maynard)