Sources and editions

Every text, and the printing it came from.

Poets revise, editors tidy, and a nineteenth-century reprint is not the first edition however faithfully it was typeset. This page records, for all 416 texts here, which printing the file reproduces, where that could not be established, and which critical edition to open when the exact wording matters.

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The transcriber recorded which book was typed from. You can find that book and check any line against it.

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The file reproduces a printing later than the one the poem is dated to. It is still the poem, but a word here and there may have been changed by an editor rather than the poet. Quote from a critical edition instead.

Has a critical edition listed

We name the standard scholarly text and link a library catalogue. Those editions are in copyright and are not on this site.

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