On annotating: Has anyone weighed the Norton Anthology lately? The
newest ed. has become something of a self-parody, bloated with apparatus
and selections that could almost all be found via Google. The same
tendency is observable in some Shakespeare texts. You wonder when the
text publishing industry will catch up with the digital age.
Dick Hardin
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Tom's reply raises an interesting point (which I have been worrying
about
while annotating Spenser lately): is it worth putting in a footnote
something a reader can find easily on Google? or in the OED (now
electrified)? or in the DNB (now electrified)? etc?
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