Excerpt from The Poetry of Robert Burns, Vol. 4: Songs; Unauthorised Poems; Glossary: Indexes; With an Essay on the Life, Genius and Achievement of Burns
Our aims in this Edition of the poetry of Burns were outlined in the Preface to our First Volume. Now that our work is done, it may be meet to touch on them with a certain particularity.
(1.) One, the first, was a classic text; and this was only to be achieved by exhaustively collating all the available versions, whether printed or holograph. After careful inquiry and research access was got to such a mass of MSS., including many not hitherto utilised, that this Centenary Edition may fairly claim to be regarded as a complete lexicon of the text of Burns"s verse. Not only, in effect, is that text established and authenticated, but also a list is given of all important variations, with the authority for each.
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