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Three colours dominate The Ring and the Book: black, white and red. White and black are the colours of good and evil: red is the colour of human experience.
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Park Honan, Browning’s Characters ( New Haven, Conn., 1961 ) pp. 189–98.
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Cronin, R. (1988). The Red Thing. In: Colour and Experience in Nineteenth-Century Poetry. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09556-8_12
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