WMR rebuts Grierson re: Shelley edit
Overview
| Date | 1907-10-26 |
| Publication | Athenaeum |
| Topic | WMR rebuts Grierson re: Shelley edit |
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| Subject | literature |
| Keywords | WMR clarifies Shelley edit; bio details. |
| Standards | facts |
| ↳ | historical accounts |
| Notes | Shelley edit. |
Annotation details
1907 October 26 Athenaeum
Topic:
correct a letter to the editor in the Athenaeum regarding WMR's edited Shelley ms..
Citation:
Rossetti, William M. "Shelley's MS. at Aberdeen." Athenaeum (1907): 519. Web. 21 September 2011.
Summary:
Rossetti takes issues with a letter published in the Athenaeum from Prof. H. J. C. Grierson claiming that Rossetti "inadvertently" adopted certain emendations to the manuscript. Rossetti clarifies that the changes were deliberate, based on a letter from Trelawny which he cites.
Rossetti then confesses to have made one mistake-substituting "only" for "alone" in the prose heading to the poem.
Mode:
critic, historian
Keywords:
correction, "inadvertent" vs. deliberate, error, emendations
Standards of Judgment:
fact, first person experience
Rhetoric and tone:
rebuttal, definitive
References:
Grierson, Shelley, Edward John Trelawny
Rhetoric:
rebuttal