human
Abate,--Cardinal,--Christ,--Maria,--God, ... Pompilia, will you let them murder me?
gpt
The Ring and the Book free of all the manifold and complex considerations which confuse our judgment. Meanwhile, each can only speak for himself. To me it seems that
human
The Ring and the Book is, regarded as an artistic whole, the most magnificent failure in our literature. It enshrines poetry which no other than our greatest could have written; it has depths to which many of far inferior power have not descended. Surely the poem must be judged by the balance of its success and failure? It is in no presumptuous spirit, but out of my profound admiration of this long-loved and often-read, this superb poem, that I, for one, wish it comprised but the Prologue, the Plea of Guido,
gpt
Caponsacchi,
human
Pompilia,
gpt
The Pope,