The Ring and the Book - An Interpretation: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Ring and the Book - An Interpretation, credited to Francis Bickford Hornbrooke, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Ring and the Book - An Interpretation by Francis Bickford Hornbrooke. Read in English by Algy Pug 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Ring and the Book - An Interpretation
• Author credits: Francis Bickford Hornbrooke
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 6:12:12

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• browning
• the ring and the book

Track guide

1. 00 - Foreword — 9:17
2. 01 - Chapter I - The Ring and the Book — 15:59
3. 02 - Chapter II - The Story — 6:12
4. 03 - Chapter III - The Method and the Spirit — 11:23
5. 04 - Chapter IV - Half-Rome and the Other Half-Rome — 24:29
6. 05 - Chapter V - Tertium Quid — 19:49
7. 06 - Chapter VI - Count Guido Franceschini — 37:22
8. 07 - Chapter VII - Caponsacchi — 44:57
9. 08 - Chapter VIII - Pompillia — 36:34
10. 09 - Chapter IX - Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis — 16:58
11. 10 - Chapter X - Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius — 17:17
12. 11 - Chapter XI - The Pope — 36:42
13. 12 - Chapter XII - Guido — 44:51
14. 13 - Chapter XIII - The Book and the Ring — 15:33
15. 14 - Chapter XIV - Lessons of The Ring and the Book — 34:49

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