I have made no effort to
record all the differences between Grosart's text and my own.
record all the differences between Grosart's text and my own.
John Donne
Alexander B.
Grosart, &c.
The Fuller Worthies'
Library_, 1872-3. Dr. Grosart's favourite manuscript was the
Stephens (_S_). When that failed him he used Addl. MS. 18643
(_A18_), whose relation to the manuscripts in Trinity College,
Dublin and Cambridge (_TCD_, _TCC_) he did not suspect,
though he collated these. Some poems he printed from the
Hazlewood-Kingsburgh MS. or the Farmer-Chetham MS. The first
two are not good texts of Donne's poems, the last two are
miscellaneous collections. The three first _Satyres_ Dr.
Grosart printed from Harleian MS. 5110 (_H51_); and he used
other sources for the poems he ascribed to Donne. It cannot
be said that he always recorded accurately the readings of
the manuscript from which he printed.
I have made no effort to
record all the differences between Grosart's text and my own.
The description of the editions which Grosart gives at ii, p.
liii is amazingly inaccurate, considering that he claimed to
have collated 'all the early and later printed editions'. He
describes _1639_, _1649_, _1650_, and _1654_ as identical
with one another, and declares that the younger Donne is
responsible only for _1669_, which appeared after his death. ]
[Footnote 37: _The Poems of John Donne From The Text of The
Edition of 1633 Revised By James Russell Lowell With The
Various Readings of The Other Editions Of The Seventeenth
Century, And With A Preface, An Introduction, And Notes By
Charles Eliot Norton. New York. _ 1895. In preparing the
text from Lowell's copy of _1633_, emended in pencil by him,
Professor Norton was assisted by Mrs. Burnett, the daughter
of Mr. Lowell. As I could not apportion the responsibility for
the text I have spoken throughout my textual notes and remarks
of 'the Grolier Club editor' (_Grolier_ for short). I
have accepted Professor Norton as the sole author of the
commentary. For instances where the punctuation has been
altered, and the meaning, in my opinion, obscured, I may refer
to the textual notes on _The Legacie_ (p. 20), _The Dreame_
(p. 37), _A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day_ (p.
Library_, 1872-3. Dr. Grosart's favourite manuscript was the
Stephens (_S_). When that failed him he used Addl. MS. 18643
(_A18_), whose relation to the manuscripts in Trinity College,
Dublin and Cambridge (_TCD_, _TCC_) he did not suspect,
though he collated these. Some poems he printed from the
Hazlewood-Kingsburgh MS. or the Farmer-Chetham MS. The first
two are not good texts of Donne's poems, the last two are
miscellaneous collections. The three first _Satyres_ Dr.
Grosart printed from Harleian MS. 5110 (_H51_); and he used
other sources for the poems he ascribed to Donne. It cannot
be said that he always recorded accurately the readings of
the manuscript from which he printed.
I have made no effort to
record all the differences between Grosart's text and my own.
The description of the editions which Grosart gives at ii, p.
liii is amazingly inaccurate, considering that he claimed to
have collated 'all the early and later printed editions'. He
describes _1639_, _1649_, _1650_, and _1654_ as identical
with one another, and declares that the younger Donne is
responsible only for _1669_, which appeared after his death. ]
[Footnote 37: _The Poems of John Donne From The Text of The
Edition of 1633 Revised By James Russell Lowell With The
Various Readings of The Other Editions Of The Seventeenth
Century, And With A Preface, An Introduction, And Notes By
Charles Eliot Norton. New York. _ 1895. In preparing the
text from Lowell's copy of _1633_, emended in pencil by him,
Professor Norton was assisted by Mrs. Burnett, the daughter
of Mr. Lowell. As I could not apportion the responsibility for
the text I have spoken throughout my textual notes and remarks
of 'the Grolier Club editor' (_Grolier_ for short). I
have accepted Professor Norton as the sole author of the
commentary. For instances where the punctuation has been
altered, and the meaning, in my opinion, obscured, I may refer
to the textual notes on _The Legacie_ (p. 20), _The Dreame_
(p. 37), _A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day_ (p.
