Excerpt from Poems
The need for a new edition of Collins is obvious. Dyce"s edition, in many ways so admirable, has long been out of print. The Aldine Collins, with many merits, yet leaves much to be desired. Of the other current editions even the best lay no claim to originality or comprehensiveness, while the worst are almost incredibly careless reprints of careless predecessors. The present edition is at least of broader scope than any which has hitherto appeared. It contains (1) a critical text carefully transcribed from the original editions; (2) variant readings, with their sources and comparative value set forth; (3) numerous notes, including a good deal of new illustrative material; (4) a biographical sketch based so far as possible upon original records (newly verified) and the statements of the poet"s contemporaries, the sources and their relative trustworthiness being indicated; (5) a comprehensive and systematic study of the poetry of Collins.
In poems which exist in more than one form, the text that seems to represent the poet"s last revision has been adopted, other readings being given a place at the foot of the page. The capitalization of the original editions, in which nearly, every noun begins with a capital, has been abandoned for modern usage.
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