:: :: University of Virginia Library

[title page]

A Description of Descriptive Bibliography by G. Thomas Tanselle

Editing Piers Plowman B: The Imperative of am Intermittently Critical Edition by Robert Adams

Harington's Orlando Furioso: A "Spare Leafe" and a Stop-Press Correction by Simon Cauchi

Shared Printing, Printer's Copy, and the Text(s) of Gascoigne's A Hundredth Sundrie Flowres by Adrian Weiss

How Much Did Farquhar's Beaux Spend in London? by Alan Roper

Burlington's Library at Chiswick by Philip Ayres

Samuel Johnson's Proposals for the Harleian Miscellany by O M Brack, Jr. and Mary Early

Hume's Revisions of the History of England by Graeme Slater

Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine,1731-77: A Supplement to Kuist by Emily Lorraine de Montluzin

The "Edwardses of Halifax" as Booksellers by Catalogue 1749-1835 by G. E. Bentley, Jr.

Notes on Cancellation in Scott's Life of Napoleon by B. J. McMullin

The Surviving Galley Proofs of Lawrence's Sons and Lovers by Helen V. Baron

Belated Justice to Hilaire Belloc, Versifier (1870-1953) by Arthur Sherbo

The Chronology of Sylvia Plath's Poems: 1956-1959 by Nancy D. Hargrove

From The London Mercury by Arthur Sherbo

[section]

Notes

The Chace Act and Anglo-American Literary Relations by James L. W. West III

Henry James and the Atlantic Monthly: Editorial Perspectives on James' "Friction with the Market" by Ellery Sedgwick

[section]

Collapse All | Expand All expand section

Notes

[1]

The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, 4 vols. (1945), 2:638.

[2]

The letter is not in E. V. Lucas's 3-vol. edition of the Lambs' letters (1935). A later edition, printed at the Cornell University Press, covers letters written through 1817 only and would seem to have been abandoned, as the third volume (1809-1817) is dated 1978.

[3]

See R. W. Armour, Barry Cornwall: A Biography of Bryan Waller Procter . . . (1935), pp.310,313.

[4]

And there are the following differences between LM (given first) and the other two texts: l. 4, on/to; l. 9, Practical and/om.; l. 12, their/om; l. 13, And/While; l. 30, sense/l. 40, guess; l. 34, Ashake/l. 44, Shaking; l. 49 Sussex/l. 59, Kentish; l. 51, blunder/l. 61, wander; l. 60, migratory/l. 70, om.; l. 63, if you/l. 73, om.; l. 64; Then/l. 74, And; l. 83, Still start a fresh/l. 93, Still silly bees; l. 87, their/l. 97, in.

[5]

Fog (4:344): l. 9, height/space; l. 29, 'Yond/Beyond. The Son of Melancholy (4:345-6): l. 4, slumbrous/sunlit; last l. nought but/only. Suppose (1:14-15): l. 9, all lone/at last; l. 17, Suppose with delight she cried/And she cried with delight—and delight.

[6]

L. 7, fairest hair/a child's fair hair; l. 9, on/in; l. 16, from midst/amidst; l. 25, that/a; l. 30, Through spicy air mellifluent/A husht, far, wild, divine lament; l. 31, As/When.

[7]

L. 19, Buzzed the bright flies/The bright flies buzzed; l. 41, Oh/On; l. 42, This wondrous coach, this vale of buds and bells/O wondrous vale of jocund buds and bells.

[8]

L. 2, thee/you; l. 6, golden, fair/golden and fair; l. 7, Cupid/Eros; l. 11, oblivion sweet and dim/divine oblivion dim; l. 13, colour/beauty.

[9]

L. 4, even/yet; l. 5, Of bounteous/Even of; l. 7, as in/with; l. 16, wan/cold; l. 19, coldly/on, from; l. 29, athrill/a thrill; l. 31, lips/lip.

[10]

L. 2, As when cherry trees in orchard were a-blow/When in wild beauty, cherries were in blow; l. 3, And, just as fancy/And, as sweet fancy.

[11]

The other revisions are: l. 28, in truth/it's true; l. 67, What was till then/The relics of; l. 68, oh/ah; l. 71, She leaves/They are left; l. 82, wise/l. 102, sage; l. 92, om./l. 112, ev'n; l. 93, Ev'n than in/l. 113, Than those of; l. 95, om./l. 115, What.

[12]

Bernard Shaw Agitations Letters to the Press, 1875-1950, ed. Dan H. Laurence and James Rambeau (1985).

[13]

James Brabazon, Dorothy L. Sayers (1981), p. xvii.

[14]

Belloc wrote to the editor in volume 19 to point out a printer's error in his book on James II, an error that made nonsense of a sentence (p. 409).

[15]

Also by Golding in the LM: What is So Odorous Here and Kindled from Deep Darkness (8:467 and 468), Battlefield (10:347), All Her Beauty is a Ghost (12:578).

[16]

Stephen Wheeler, ed. The Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor, 3 vols. (1937), p. v, states that he excludes poems attributed to Landor, but "certainly not written by him." Which poems, and why "certainly"?

[17]

Included in Selected Poems (1930) but not in Collected Poems (1954).

[18]

By Lester E. Dennon in The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell, ed. Paul A. Schilpp (1944).

[19]

The reviews are of Jack B. Yates, The Ameranthers; Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza; G. M. Sargeaunt, The Classical Spirit (34:176, 269, 464-465); New Writing (2), ed. John Hayward, and The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, trans. by Louis MacNeice (35:83-84, 214); Louis MacNeice, Out of the Picture and The Complete Works of Isaac Rosenberg, ed. E. W. Harding and Gordon Bottomley (36:291-292, 386-387); Francis Berry, The Iron Christ (37:658).

[20]

See Selected Literary Criticism of Louis MacNeice, ed. Alan Heuser (1987), pp. 25 and 127.

[21]

Also worthy of mention: A. C. Benson, "Blanche Warre-Cornish" (8:145-158), and a memoir of the recently dead Oscar Browning by Alec Macdonald (9:6-7).