Papers relating to the Longman Annotated English Poets series, particularly a planned edition of Chaucer. 1959-1986.

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Papers relating to the Longman Annotated English Poets series, particularly a planned edition of Chaucer. 1959-1986.

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Comprises: (1) ca. 125 letters concerning a Chaucer edition, mostly from Richard J. Beck to F.W. Bateson, February 1964 - June 1978; (2) Notes and draft text relating to general aspects of proposed Chaucer edition, including: 3 manuscript notebooks; manuscript and typescript notes, photocopies, all with manuscript amendments; (3) Notes and draft text for individual Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde and The Equatorie of the Planets; (4) 7 printed books and offprints, including: 'The preamble and tale of the Wife of Bath' (ed. R.J. Beck, 1964) and 'The Manciple's Tale' (ed. Donald C. Baker, 1976); (5) 2 copies of The Canterbury Tales (ed. A.C. Cawley, Dent, 1975), removed from bindings with manuscript annotations, incomplete; (6) Notes, draft text and associated correspondence for published editions of Keats (Miriam Allott, 1970), Marvell (Nigel Smith, 2003), Milton (John Carey and Alastair Fowler, 1968), Shelley (Geoffrey Matthews and Kelvin Everest, 1989-2000), Spenser's 'Faerie Queen' (A.C. Hamilton, 1977) and Tennyson (Christopher Ricks, 1969); (7) Notes, draft text and associated correspondence for unpublished editions of Byron and Coleridge.

7 boxes; manuscript, typescript, and printed material.

Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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Longman (Firm)

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English publishers. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) in the name of the firm, dated : London Feb. 4-23 June 1881, to Otto Goldschmidt, 1881 Feb. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270668286 ...

Bateson, Frederick Wilse, 1901-1978

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The Longman Annotated English Poets series began publishing in 1965 under the editorship of Professor F.W. Bateson. From the guide to the Papers relating to the, Longman Annotated English Poets, series, particularly a planned edition of Chaucer, 1959-1986, (Leeds University Library) Frederick Wilse Bateson was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford as well as a writer. He was born on Dec. 25, 1901 in Styal, Cheshire, England. ...

Beck, Richard J.

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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400

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William Morris' Kelmscott Press published The works of Geoffrey Chaucer: now newly imprinted [edited by F. S. Ellis; ornamented with pictures designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and engraved on wood by W. H. Hooper] in 1896. From the guide to the Proofs and drawings for, The works of Geoffrey Chaucer: now newly imprinted, 1892-1896., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) William Morris' Kelmscott Press published The works of Geoffrey Chaucer: now ne...