Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Michael Edson

Part I: Georgic Annotation
1 Annotating Georgic Poetry
Karina Williamson and Michael Edson
2 William Falconer’s The Shipwreck and the Birth of the Dictionary of the Marine
William Jones

Part II: Nationalism, Antiquarianism, and Annotation
3 The Afterlife of Annotation: How Robert of Gloucester Became the Founding Father of English Poetry
Jeff Strabone
4 Topographical Annotation in Thomas Percy’s The Hermit of Warkworth and John Pinkerton’s The Bruce
Thomas Van der Goten
5 Marginal Imprints: Robert Southey’s Notes to Madoc
Alex Watson

Part III: Varieties of Annotation
6 A Translator’s Annotation: Alexander Pope’s Observations on His Iliad
David Hopkins
7 Allusion and Quotation in Chaucerian Annotation, 1687–1798
Tom Mason
8 Looking Homeward: Thomas Warton’s Annotation of Milton and the Poetic Tradition
Adam Rounce

Part IV: Annotating the Canon
9 Zachary Grey’s Annotations on Samuel Butler’s Hudibras
Mark A. Pedreira
10 William Hymers and the Editing of William Collins’s Poems, 1765–1797
Sandro Jung
11 Paratexting Beauty into Duty: Aesthetics and Morality in Late Eighteenth-Century Literary Collections
Barbara M. Benedict

Index
About the Contributors

About the Author

Michael Edson is assistant Professor in the English department at the University of Wyoming.

Reviews

[This] volume offers a persuasive brief for the scholarly need to look again at the history of verse annotation during the eighteenth century and the various roles it has played in publication history. [Michael Edson] treats the relations of footnote and endnote, of paratextual supplement and freestanding elaboration, with admirable clarity and subtlety. . . . In ranging across the history of British verse from Chaucer to Burns, the collection offers the broader literary community insight into both the history of verse annotation and also, surprisingly, the great deal that verse annotation can teach us about the history of poetic form.
*Tim Erwin, Professor of English, University of Nevada*