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Notes
Sir Walter Greg, The Calculus of Variants, Oxford, 1927, pp. 17-18. The technical terms used below are all to be found explicated in this work and an article by the same author, "The Rationale of Copy-Text," Studies in Bibliography, III (1950), 19-36.
Archibald A. Hill, "Some Postulates for Distributional Study of Texts," Studies in Bibliography III (1950), 77, 92. This and Greg's "Rationale" were read before the English Institute in 1949.
Actually Greg holds that radiation can never be logically demonstrated and that the best we can say when all the texts have type-l variations is that all but one of them is derived from a common ancestor, but Hill's concept of simplicity (p. 87) allows, indeed forces, the conclusion of radiation in this case.
The Works of John Milton, ed. Frank Allen Patterson, et al., New York, Columbia University Press, 1931-38, I, ii 435-444. For the revisions of Comus referred to below, see pp. 474-577. The revisions of Arcades and Lycidas, pp. 452-474, present nothing of interest in patterns of revision.
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