Essays on the Study and Use of Poetry by Plutarch and Basil the Great by Frederick Morgan Padelford. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1902 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.

All that he had written before was preliminary to the composition of this great work-artist's sketches in lyric, drama, and romance, preliminary to this supreme effort. In a very real sense, The Ring and the Book is Browning.