Who wrote the Victorian long poem 'The Ring and the Book'?

Robert Browning wrote the Victorian long poem The Ring and the Book.

Browning’s ambitious work is a dramatic narrative poem based on a real 1698 murder case in Rome, then part of the Papal States. He discovered the case in a yellow-covered volume of trial documents bought at a Florence market in 1860. The source became known as the Old Yellow Book and supplied the historical foundation for his poem.

Published in four volumes from 1868 to 1869, the poem contains twelve books and more than 20,000 lines of blank verse. Ten books present dramatic monologues by different participants in the case, while the opening and closing books frame the narrative through Browning’s own voice. Each speaker offers a distinct and sometimes contradictory interpretation of the truth.

The poem’s central events concern Count Guido Franceschini, his wife Pompilia, and the priest Giuseppe Caponsacchi. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert’s wife, was also a major Victorian poet, but she did not write this work.