ISBN: 9781152425408

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...in each section, which is all his own, and which is both confusing and cumbrous. Why should not the pieces have been numbered straight through? He who introduces a new system of reference of his own, wilfully makes reference more difficult. He is almost as great an offender as a director who changes the numbers of the pictures in his gallery. First among the mechanical aids which too many editors omit to supply--guilty of what I see1 that Horace Walpole used to call sins of the tribe of Om --I place an intelligent use of the page headings. I asked above whether the notes in Mayor''s Juvenal or Munro''s Lucretius were the more repulsive in appearance. I think in view of the further point now under consideration that I must decide against Munro, for Mayor stands almost alone among classical editors in using headlines on recto and verso to tell the reader what the notes are about. I took up just now an edition of Pope, which in some respects is carefully done. But on every left-hand page the heading is The Poems, and on every right-hand page Of Pope. Did the editor suppose that I should forget as I turned the leaves what poet it was? I was looking for a particular piece, and of course every page should be headed by the title of the poem which it contains. There are few things more aggravating, but also few more common, 1 From a review in The Timet Literary Supplement, Feb. 27, 1919. than the neglect of this rule of right reason. One thing, however, there is which is worse still, and that is that an editor of a long poem should fail to number the lines. There is a famous poem which another poet called drowzy and frowzy and which at any rate is very long. Yet in the best and handiest edition of Wordsworth the lines i... Sir Edward Tyas Cook, Books, History, More Literary Recreations Books>History Publisher: London: MacMillan and co., limited Subjects: Pliny, the Younger Greek anthology Books and reading Classical literature -- History and criticism Editing Poets English language -- Diction Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.<

ISBN: 9781152425408

Publisher: London: MacMillan and co, limited Subjects: Pliny, the YoungerGreek anthologyBooks and readingClassical literature - History and criticismEditingPoetsEnglish language - Diction… More...

Publisher: London: MacMillan and co, limited Subjects: Pliny, the YoungerGreek anthologyBooks and readingClassical literature - History and criticismEditingPoetsEnglish language - Diction Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. Books History~~General More-Literary-Recreations~~Edward-Tyas-Cook General Books LLC Publisher: London: MacMillan and co., limited Subjects: Pliny, the Younger Greek anthology Books and reading Classical literature -- History and criticism Editing Poets English language -- Diction Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.<