Romantic Revisions

Romantic writers, perhaps more than any others, revised their works incessantly, in manuscript and in successive published editions. Wordsworth's Prelude, for example (which remained in manuscript for fifty-two years) is well known in two editions, but the various drafts and stages of manuscript composition give us many more versions of a poem whose text is rendered increasingly unstable in the process of revision. In this collection of essays, the first of its kind, leading American and British textual editors respond to the recent radical overhaul in the editing of Romantic texts.Brinkley, Robert is the author of 'Romantic Revisions' with ISBN 9780521380744 and ISBN 052138074X.