The Text of Dryden's Poetry The Poems of John Dryden Paul Hammond John Dryden
| Autor: | Phillip Harth |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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| Zdroj: | Huntington Library Quarterly. 63:227-244 |
| ISSN: | 1544-399X 0018-7895 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/3817871 |
| Popis: | Since 1965 the Longman Annotated English Poets series has been providing, in the words of its founding editor, F W. Bateson, "university students and teachers, and the general reader with complete and fully annotated editions of the major English poets," in modernized texts edited by prominent specialists. This is the policy to which Bateson's successor as general editor, John Barnard, still adheres, and it is reprinted at the front of each new addition to the series. Understandably, the series has, since its beginning, enjoyed an importance among modernized editions (most of them modest paperbacks of selected poems for the undergraduate classroom) that entitles the volumes to serious comparison with their unmodernized rivals, and in fact invites it, since Bateson envisioned the series as a demonstration of the inherent superiority of modernized editions.' The publication of the first two volumes of Paul Hammond's edition of The Poems ofJohn Dryden (to be completed by another two volumes) marks the first appearance in the series of a Restoration poet (if, as is customary, we exclude Milton from that category) and offers an exceptional opportunity for considering in detail the problems of modernization as they apply particularly to the texts of Dryden and his contemporary poets.2 Most modernized editions with any claim to serious consideration (such as the complete works of an early modern author) have for some time now carried an introduction in which the editor attempts to justify the modernization of the |
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