The Ring and the Book - An Interpretation
Francis Bickford Hornbrooke
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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) (6 hr 12 min)
Chapitres
Foreword | 9:17 | Lu par Algy Pug |
Chapter I - The Ring and the Book | 15:59 | Lu par Algy Pug |
Chapter II - The Story | 6:12 | Lu par Algy Pug |
Chapter III - The Method and the Spirit | 11:23 | Lu par Algy Pug |
Chapter IV - Half-Rome and the Other Half-Rome | 24:29 | Lu par Algy Pug |
Chapter V - Tertium Quid | 19:49 | Lu par Algy Pug |
Chapter VI - Count Guido Franceschini | 37:22 | Lu par Algy Pug |
Chapter VII - Caponsacchi | 44:57 | Lu par Algy Pug |
Chapter VIII - Pompillia | 36:34 | Lu par Algy Pug |
Chapter IX - Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis | 16:58 | Lu par Algy Pug |
Chapter X - Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius | 17:17 | Lu par Algy Pug |
Chapter XI - The Pope | 36:42 | Lu par Algy Pug |
Chapter XII - Guido | 44:51 | Lu par Algy Pug |
Chapter XIII - The Book and the Ring | 15:33 | Lu par Algy Pug |
Chapter XIV - Lessons of The Ring and the Book | 34:49 | Lu par Algy Pug |