Author | Robert Browning |
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Language | English |
Genre | Narrative poem, historical fiction, true crime, mystery |
Set in | Papal States, 1698 |
Publication date | 1868 |
Publication place | Britain |
OCLC | 1050733752 |
821.83 | |
LC Class | PR4219.A2 A4 |
Text | The Ring and the Book at Wikisource |
The Ring and the Book | |
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Form | Blank verse |
Meter | Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
Lines | 21,000[1] |
The Ring and the Book is a long dramatic narrative poem, and, more specifically, a verse novel, of 21,000 lines, written by Robert Browning. It was published in four volumes from 1868 to 1869 by Smith, Elder & Co.[2]