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----- Original Message ----- From: "David E. Latane" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 21 April 2000 13:55 Subject: Re: The Grime of the Ancient Mariner | Many recent anthologies have chosen the earliest possible form of a poem. | This comes in part from the widespread preference for the young man's | Prelude (1805) over the posthumous version (1850). Is there that causal link? How do you know? I'm intrigued. Do *you prefer the 1850 Prelude?! L Thus one gets the first | Morning Chronicle version of "Dejection: An Ode" and the 1798 version of | the "Ancyent Marinere". Both of these are manifestly inferior to the | later versions as poetry. I expect next we'll be getting the early | versions of Yeats poems, etc. If Ricks simply removed the gloss from the | 1815 Mariner, then that's very peculiar. | | David Latane | [log in to unmask] | | On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Jon Corelis wrote: | | > The new edition of The Oxford Book of English Verse includes The Crime of | > the Ancient Mariner but omits the notes. The editor, Christopher Ricks, | > doesn't explain why -- presumably he thought them an irrelevant excresence | > and wanted to tidy up the page. I think the poem looks shockingly | > incomplete without them. Yes I know the notes were added later but so were | > the notes to The Waste Land. But then Ricks doesn't include the notes to | > The Waste Land either. In fact he doesn't include The Waste Land itself. | > Oh well I was getting tired of Western civilization anyway. | > ________________________________________________________________________ | > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com | > | > | | %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%