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The editor bases the text on a collation of editions issued during Spenser’s lifetime and on the 1611 Folio, documenting every verbal change while omitting certain typographical features and practices. It also outlines how variants in spelling and punctuation inform relationships among the Quartos and the Folio, arguing that a full variorum would be less useful for students. It further discusses The Shepheardes Calender’s publication context, editions, and textual corrections.","8ERKELEY  \nLIBRARY  \nUNIVERSITY OF  \nCALIFORNIA  \n# THE POETICAL WORKS OFEDMUND SPENSER\n\nIN THREE VOLUMESVOLUME I  \nm0,edm  \n# SPENSER’SMINOR POEMS\n\nEDITED BY  \nERNEST DE SÉLINCOURT  \nOXFORDAT THE CLARENDON PRESS  \nOxford University Press,Ely House,London W.I  \nGLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE WELLINGTONCAPE TOWN SALISBURY IBADAN NAIROBI DAR ES SALAAM LUSAKA ADDIS ABABABOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS KARACHI LAHORE DACCAKUALA LUMPUR SINGAPORE HONG KONG TOKYO  \nFIRST PUBLISHED I9I0  \nREPRINTED LITHOGRAPHICALLY IN GREAT BRITAINAT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS,OXFORDFROM CORRECTED SHEETS OF THE FIRST EDITIONI960,I966,I970  \nPR2352D4  MAN  \n# INTRODUCTION.\n\nTHE aim of this volume is to present a trustworthytext of the Minor Poems of Spenser,based upona collation of the editions published in the poet'slifetime with the Folio of 161I.¹As in Mr.J.C.Smith'sedition of The Faerie Queene,to which this book is thecompanion volume,certain typographical peculiarities of theQuartos—long s,&,ô,superscribed m and n(e.g.fro,whe)—are not reproduced,and the frequent practice in the Epistleand Glosses of The Shepheardes Calender of beginning asentence with a small letter has been ignored;but withthese exceptions every deviation from the text of the firsteditions has been recorded in the footnotes.  \nThe variations to be found in other Quartos,and in theFolio,are not so fully recorded;but every verbal change isnoted,and any of those changes in spelling or punctuationwhich seem really significant,or bear upon the relation ofthe different Quartos and the Folio to one another.Tohave presented a full variorum edition would,it is believed,be of far less value to the student;for the accumulation ofan immense mass of orthographical variants,such as'delights'and‘delightes’,‘everye’‘everie’and‘every’,‘forget-fulnes'and‘forgetfulnesse’,would have hidden from thereader's eye,not only many that are of real interest,but  \nINTRODUCTION.  \nalso those other changes which serve to illustrate,in even moreimportant respects,the mutual relations of the texts.Thegeneral character of those trivial orthographical changeswhich I have omitted may be inferred from those that areduly recorded;and their tendency,as would be expected,istowards modernization.  \nTHE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER.  \nIt seems likely that Spenser wrote The Shepheardes Calendershortly before its publication.But when E.K.speaks of itin his letter to Harvey as‘the maydenhead of this ourcommen frends Poetrie'he does not intend to imply that itwas his first composition,for a few lines earlier he has referredto'divers other excellent works of his,which slepe in silence,as his Dreames,his Legendes,his Court of Cupide andsondry others';rather is he viewing it as the poet's firstserious appeal to the general public.  \nOf The Shepheardes Calender five editions,in quarto,appeared in the poet's lifetime,in I579(Q1),in I58I(Q2),in I586(Q3),in I59I(Q4),in I597(Q 5).They wereall published anonymously,the authorship being first publiclyacknowledged in the 161I Folio of Spenser's collected poems.An exhaustive collation of these editions proves conclusively,that though some of the corrections may have been made atSpenser's instigation,he cannot be regarded as in any wayresponsible for the general form of the text after QI.Each Quarto was printed from its predecessor,and Ffrom Q5.Each edition corrects a few errors,reproducesmany,and initiates others;and these in their turn wereeither incorporated in the later editions,or wrongly emendedby conjecture when the correct reading might have beenrestored by a reference to Q1.That there was no thorough-going and systematic revision of the text in these editionscan be proved by their sins both of omission and of com-","cbCaigsGJZ76Azup","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigsGJZ76Azup","pdf",28692754,3,1,568,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Editorial method for Minor Poems\n## Handling deviations and recording variants\n## The Shepheardes Calender: composition and editions","[{\"question\":\"What sources does the introduction use to establish the Minor Poems text?\",\"answer\":\"It uses a collation of editions published during Spenser’s lifetime and the 1611 Folio of his collected poems.\"},{\"question\":\"Which kinds of deviations from the first editions are handled differently in this volume?\",\"answer\":\"Certain typographical peculiarities of the Quartos are not reproduced, and practices such as starting sentences with a small letter in the Epistle and Glosses are ignored; 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