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Final Intentions or Process?: Editing Greville’s Caelica
- SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 52, Number 1, Winter 2012
- pp. 13-33
- 10.1353/sel.2012.0004
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This article discusses the challenge of editing Fulke Greville’s lyric sequence Caelica for the new Oxford Greville edition. Printed posthumously, though a few poems had leaked into print during Greville’s long lifetime, the work evolved over nearly fifty years, reaching an almost final form in the Warwick manuscript, a scribal copy heavily annotated with Greville’s revisions, many in his own hand. How does the editor both fix a text and represent the process of its evolution?