Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from English Poems: Selected and Edited With Illustrative and Explanatory Notes and Bibliographies
This volume is the second in a series of four volumes of English Poems, intended especially for use with college classes. The principles governing the selection of poems, the editing of the texts, and the composition of the notes, in the series, were fully set forth in the Preface to Vol. IV, which was the first to appear, and they need not be repeated here at length. In brief, the method followed is (i) to choose poems representing the different phases of the work of poets and schools of poetry, without including an undue number of minor poets; (2) so far as possible to print entire poems or entire parts of poems; (3) to follow the latest accessible text approved by the author (4) to modernize spelling and punctuation as a rule, but to retain the original spelling when change would affect rhyme or rhythm; (5) in the notes to explain difficulties of expres sion and allusion, give the poet's view of poetry in his own words, furnish material (chie?y variant readings and liter ary sources) which illustrate his mode of work, and throw some light, by means of extracts from contempo rary criticism, upon the literary standards of different periods.
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