Synopses & Reviews
Volume II contains Stafford, a play seldom reprinted, and Sordello, a poem commonly, but mistakenly, neglected as "unintelligible." The book looks at Browning's correspondence with Emily Hickey, the first editor of Strafford, and important copies of Sordello that help to shed light on Browning's attempts to revise the poem. Also included are such of the juvenilia that survive.
Review
"The value of Jack and Smith's edition continues to increase with each volume."--Choice
"...the fullest and most helpfully annotated text of Sordello yet published."--Yearbook of English Studies
"Jack and Smith have provided a reliable text that in my judgement best represents the poet's final revised text. I have no doubt that scholars will soon accept the Oxford English Text as the definitive text."--Journal of English and German Philology