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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NCSU/oai:NCSU:etd-09262002-083452 |
| Date | 03 December 2002 |
| Creators | Massey, Lara |
| Contributors | M. Thomas Hester, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, R. V. Young |
| Publisher | NCSU |
| Source Sets | North Carolina State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-09262002-083452/ |
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