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... critical commentary on an English poem , reached an audience perhaps larger than any critical study has since enjoyed ; an estimated sixty thousand subscribers read the popular journal.27 " The immense circulation , ' states John Walter ...
... critical commentary on an English poem , reached an audience perhaps larger than any critical study has since enjoyed ; an estimated sixty thousand subscribers read the popular journal.27 " The immense circulation , ' states John Walter ...
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... critical commentary exist independent of the text . 10 Though Bent- ley's aim was - as it had been when he edited ... critical edition of Paradise Lost - with a critical introduction and apparatus – and would ensure that the text itself ...
... critical commentary exist independent of the text . 10 Though Bent- ley's aim was - as it had been when he edited ... critical edition of Paradise Lost - with a critical introduction and apparatus – and would ensure that the text itself ...
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... critical definitive edition . To think otherwise , in fact , would be to undermine the value of such editions . A CRITICAL EDITION Whereas the editor of a facsimile text aims at reproducing a single copy ( the best representative of an ...
... critical definitive edition . To think otherwise , in fact , would be to undermine the value of such editions . A CRITICAL EDITION Whereas the editor of a facsimile text aims at reproducing a single copy ( the best representative of an ...
Contents
The Early Editions 16781730 | 30 |
Richard Bentley to Thomas Newton | 59 |
The Modern Editorial Preoccupation | 80 |
Copyright | |
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