Dear all, Your wait is over! Romantic Circles is pleased to announce the
joint publication, with Cambridge University Press, of Lyrical Ballads: An
Electronic Scholarly Edition, edited by Bruce Graver and Ronald Tetreault.
This edition provides SGML-encoded texts of the five states of Lyrical
Ballads as a discrete collection authorized during Wordsworth and
Coleridge's lifetimes: both the Bristol and London imprints of the first
edition of 1798, and the two-volume editions of 1800, 1802, and 1805. These
texts are supplemented by high quality photographic images of all the pages
of the various editions, which can be compared with the encoded texts
through hypertext links. In addition, this system of hypertextual linkage
has been extended to make possible two kinds of navigation through the
versions: any two texts may be viewed side by side, and all identified
variants may be studied in context by means of a tool that Graver and
Tetreault call "dynamic collation." This edition highlights two important
characteristics of Lyrical Ballads that traditional print editions have
made it difficult to discern: first, the complex interaction between
authors, publishers, and printers that brought it into being, and, second,
the multiplicity of versions of the collection that readers had available
to them in the early nineteenth century. It is available at
<http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/LB>. Those with an interest in Coleridge
may also like to know that RC will shortly be publishing an electronic
edition of The Wanderings of Cain, edited by Nikki Santilli. Neil Fraistat
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