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A "fitter" Text of John Donne's "The Good Morrow"

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dc.contributor M. Thomas Hester, Committee Chair
dc.contributor Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Committee Member
dc.contributor R. V. Young, Committee Member
dc.creator Massey, Lara
dc.date 2010-04-02T18:07:06Z
dc.date 2010-04-02T18:07:06Z
dc.date 2002-12-03
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-21T08:41:24Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-21T08:41:24Z
dc.identifier etd-09262002-083452
dc.identifier http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.16/1747
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/251952
dc.description The purpose of this paper has been to explain the process by which I established the text of John Donne's "The Good Morrow." In order to construct the text I examined the forty manuscripts and seven seventeenth-century editions that contain part or all of the poem, and I transcribed the poem from each source. Then I collated the transcriptions using a computer software program called the Donne Variorum Collation Program. I filiated the manuscripts based on verbal variants and, through investigation and comparison, created a schema of the poem's transmissional history. I deduced that Donne made minor revisions to the original "The Good Morrow," and I conservatively emended the version of "The Good Morrow" in the Dolau Cothi manuscript, the closest manuscript to Donne's Lost Revised Holograph, and presented that copy-text for "The Good Morrow." I presented a modernized version of the text also. In addition to a detailed explanation of this process, I also included a complete listing of variants, the transmissional schema of the poem, and an explanation of how this work fits into the context of contemporary Donne studies and modern editorial practices.
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dc.subject Renaissance
dc.subject editing
dc.subject manuscript
dc.subject John Donne
dc.title A "fitter" Text of John Donne's "The Good Morrow"


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