Browning's three great dramatic poems; "The Ring and the Book"
his finest work; its uniqueness; Carlyle's criticism of it;
Poetry versus Tour-de-Force; "The Ring and the Book" begun in 1866;
analysis of the poem; kinship of "The Ring and the Book" and "Aurora Leigh";
explanation of title; the idea taken from a parchment volume
Browning picked up in Florence; the poem planned at Casa Guidi;
"O Lyric Love", etc.; description and analysis of "The Ring and the Book",
with quotations; compared as a poem with "The Inn Album", "Pauline",
"Asolando", "Men and Women", etc.; imaginary volumes,
to be entitled "Transcripts from Life" and "Flowers o' the Vine";
Browning's greatest period; Browning's primary importance.