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Michael Rudick, editor The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh: A Historical Edition. The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 239 pages, $25
This radically revisionist edition, as Michael Rudick himself admits, would scarcely have been possible without the pioneering work of Arthur F. Marotti, whose Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (1995) first made the case for the importance of "scribal publication" to the textual bibliographer. Marotti showed that medieval practices of manuscript circulation had continued unbroken long after printed books became widely available--indeed, well into the Restoration period--and argued that the ...