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This part of the editorial apparatus for P.B. Shelley's The Devil's Walk is slightly modified from the way it will appear in The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat and published by The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Listed here are the variants from Wise, 1927/i, 1927/viii, 1964J, 1972, and 1989 for the letter version of the poem. For full citations of the historical (i.e. not primary) editions, see the bibliography.
We have omitted from our comprehensive collation all variants that seem to us purely formal features of the printers or publishers involved in these editions, such as the length of indentions, the use of full capitals, small caps, and italic or Gothic type in the titles and subtitles-a practice at one time subject to the fonts available in a print-shop or the conventions of its compositorial staff and more recently under the control of publishers, book designers, and copy-editors. In a like manner, when quotation marks have been added, we have not differentiated between single and double quotation marks. Instead, we treat both as double quotes unless evidence suggests an editorial rather than typographical explanation for the appearance of the single quotes.
Letter Variants
These are variants from Wise, 1927/i, 1927/viii, 1964J, 1972, and 1989.
Note: The letter version appears once in volume 1 and again in volume viii of Ingpen's & Peck's 1927 edition of The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. We collate each below under the sigla 1927/i and 1927/viii.
Title.The Devil's Walk] The Devil's Walk I 1972
Stanzas numbered with roman numerals Wise 1927/i 1927/viii.
8. wd. ] would Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
wd. 1964J 1989
there ] there, Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
ther[e] 1964J
9. creatures ] creatures! Wise 1927/i 1927/viii
creatures, 1972
all ] all, Wise 1927/i 1927/viii
a[ll] 1964J
10. dress ] dress, Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
ball ] ball: Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
ba[ll] 1964J
14. Grinning ] Receiving 1989
applause, he] applause | He Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
shews ] shows Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
claws ] claws: Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
claw[s] 1964J
16. fright, ] fright 1972
fright, from ] fright | From Wise 1927/i 1927/viii
his] his Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1964J 1972 1989
18. whom ] whom, Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
prayer ] prayer, Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
praye[r] 1964J
19. devil ] Devil Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
sate ] sat 1964J
side ] side, Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
20. that ] that, Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
devil ] Devil Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
were ] were [there], Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
were [there] 1964J 1989
22. Ha ha ] "Ha ha!" Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
old ] Old Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
Nick, thats ] Nick,- | "That's Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
trick ] trick: Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
23. For ] For, Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
ô ] O 1964J 1972
Devil, ô] Devil, | O Wise 1927/i 1927/viii
favorite ] favourite Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
evil ] evil, Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
25. the Devil ] the Devil [? a Lawyer] Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1964J
a Lawyer 1972
the Devil [for a lawyer] 1989
31. Many ... wi[ng] ] In a house as hot as his own. Wise
wi[ng] ] wing: 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
win[g] 1964J
wing 1989
32. pennon ] pennon, Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
and ] & 1989
twiste[d] ] twisted Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
twirle[d] 1989
sting ] sting, Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
34. Ah! Ah ] "Ah ah!" Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
Satan ] Satan, Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
the ] "the Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
go[od] ] good! Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
good 1964J 1989
35. here ] here Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1964J 1972 1989
oth[ers] ] others! Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
others 1989
36. food, ] food 1972
food, news ] food | News Wise 1927/i 1927/viii
humans ] human Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1964J 1972 1989
blood ] blood: Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
39. Wch. ] Which Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
Wch. 1964J
Wch 1989
brothers. ] brothers." Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
42. For altho ] Nor, tho' Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
Nor tho 1964J
For tho 1989
dark ] dark, Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
45. calld ] called Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1964J 1972
so, so . . ] so-so. Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
so, so. 1964J 1989
47. & ] And Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
shew ] show Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
hore ] horse Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
[? horse] 1964J
Iron 1989
within ] within?-Wise 1927/i 1927/viii 1972
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