Treatise on the Commerce and Police of the River Thames - Couverture rigide

Colquhoun, Patrick

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0875850413 ISBN 13 : 9780875850412

Editeur : Patterson Smith, 1969

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Preface to Mr. Buxton Forman s1892 edition of Shelley s Poems -contains the following statement: The text being no longer the subject of such controversy as raged for years over it, I have given it in the form in which I think it may be regarded as established. There is no necessity, I think, for so despondent a view. While manuscripts remain undeciphered, or incorrectly deciphered, we are not compelled to attribute to Shelley all those deficiencies in sense and metre which have been accepted, either with or without hesitation often with peculiar admiration for some sixty or eighty years. The following notes are based on a careful and, as Bodley s Librarian would testify, a prolonged examination of all the manuscript poems in the Shelley Collection at Oxford. What authority should be assigned to these manuscripts, in cases where they differ from the printed texts, I do not propose to discuss here. Speaking quite roughly, one may perhaps say that a manuscript reading may be regarded as having authority whenever it (1) gives sense instead of nonsense, or (2) is metrically more correct, or (3) is manifestly superior in sense and sound, or (4) is likely to be misread or (5) is likely to be misprinted. Why manuscript readings which fulfil the first, second, or third of these conditions have not yet appeared in print is a difficult, perhaps even a delicate, question to answer. In some few cases the printer may have been to blame; in others perhaps the editor of the transcription. But those who remember Mrs. Shelley sdescription of her own editorial difficulties, and other graphic accounts of Shelley smethods of composition, will probably be inclined to blame, and at the same time to pardon, the transcriber.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Patterson Smith
• Date d'édition: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0875850413
• ISBN 13: 9780875850412
• Reliure: Relié