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"THE ACHIEVEMENT OF PRINT" : SAMUEL DANIEL AND THE ANXIETY OF AUTHORSHIP

"THE ACHIEVEMENT OF PRINT" : SAMUEL DANIEL AND THE ANXIETY OF AUTHORSHIP &&THlE ACHKlEVJEMlENT OlF JPRJrNT?? ~ §AMlilllL D ANJ[lElL AND THlE ANxIlETY OlF AUTHORSHKP IN AN ARTICLE on editing Daniel's poetry, lohn Pitcher comments on Daniel's attitude toward publication: He knows that books are an indelible record of his views, printed in the public mind ... but still he hopes to be able to retract them . . . This will seem wildly impossible ... until we recognize that Daniel is treading water between script and print. He is imagining ... that he can treat his books, which are mass-produced printed sheets, as if they were manuscripts, which are scribal documents. (61) As Pitcher notes, Daniel is remarkable for his constant revision of his work. Although other Renaissance poets also revised work they had published, Daniel's revisions are particularly frequent. He seems never to have thought of a poem as finished, and the ceaseless emendation (both changes to poems and, in the case ofhis sonnet sequence, addition of entire poems) that has made the textual notes to modern editions of his poetry a thicket of abbreviations seems to me to showadesire to resist the fetish of the finished product upon which the publishing industry is based. To publish a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Explorations in Renaissance Culture Brill

"THE ACHIEVEMENT OF PRINT" : SAMUEL DANIEL AND THE ANXIETY OF AUTHORSHIP

Explorations in Renaissance Culture , Volume 29 (1): 101 – Dec 2, 2003

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Brill
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© Copyright 2003 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0098-2474
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2352-6963
DOI
10.1163/23526963-90000259
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&&THlE ACHKlEVJEMlENT OlF JPRJrNT?? ~ §AMlilllL D ANJ[lElL AND THlE ANxIlETY OlF AUTHORSHKP IN AN ARTICLE on editing Daniel's poetry, lohn Pitcher comments on Daniel's attitude toward publication: He knows that books are an indelible record of his views, printed in the public mind ... but still he hopes to be able to retract them . . . This will seem wildly impossible ... until we recognize that Daniel is treading water between script and print. He is imagining ... that he can treat his books, which are mass-produced printed sheets, as if they were manuscripts, which are scribal documents. (61) As Pitcher notes, Daniel is remarkable for his constant revision of his work. Although other Renaissance poets also revised work they had published, Daniel's revisions are particularly frequent. He seems never to have thought of a poem as finished, and the ceaseless emendation (both changes to poems and, in the case ofhis sonnet sequence, addition of entire poems) that has made the textual notes to modern editions of his poetry a thicket of abbreviations seems to me to showadesire to resist the fetish of the finished product upon which the publishing industry is based. To publish a

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Published: Dec 2, 2003

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