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

Renaissance;editing;manuscript;John Donne

Massey, Lara ; M. Thomas Hester, Committee Chair,Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Committee Member,R. V. Young, Committee Member,Massey, Lara ; M. Thomas Hester ; Committee Chair ; Kirsten Shepherd-Barr ; Committee Member ; R. V. Young ; Committee Member

University:North Carolina State University

关键词: Renaissance;    editing;    manuscript;    John Donne;   

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【 摘 要 】

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.