Notes to this edition

Introduction

The Curse of Minerva

The Waltz

  Introduction Note to this edition Preface The Waltz  

Introduction

Note to this edition

Preface

The Waltz

 Preface

 The text of the present issue of Lord Byron's 

Poetical Works

 is based on that of 

The Works of Lord Byron

, in six volumes, 12mo, which was published by John Murray in 1831. That edition followed the text of the successive issues of plays and poems which appeared in the author's lifetime, and were subject to his own revision, or that of Gifford and other accredited readers. A more or less thorough collation of the printed volumes with the MSS. which were at Moore's disposal, yielded a number of 

variorum

 readings which have appeared in subsequent editions published by John Murray. Fresh collations of the text of individual poems with the original MSS. have been made from time to time, with the result that the text of the latest edition (one-vol. 8vo, 1891) includes some emendations, and has been supplemented by additional variants. Textual errors of more or less importance, which had crept into the numerous editions which succeeded the seventeen-volume edition of 1832, were in some instances corrected, but in others passed over. For the purposes of the present edition the printed text has been collated with all the MSS. which passed 

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