William Wordsworth: Concerning the Convention of Cintra

Richard Gravil And W J B Owen

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A bicentennial electronic edition of Wordsworth's impassioned 'pamphlet' on The Convention of Cintra.

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• Literary Criticism
• European

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• Publié par: Humanities eBooks
• Date de parution: 11 janvier 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781847600639
• Langue: English
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William Wordsworth Concerning the Convention of Cintra

A Bicentennial Critical Edition Richard Gravil and W. J. B. Owen

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William Wordsworth Concerning the Convention of Cintra A Critical Edition

edited by Richard Gravil and W. J. B. Owen

with a Critical Symposium by Simon Bainbridge, David Bromwich Timothy Michael and Patrick Vincent

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Preface to the Electronic Edition

Contents

Extract from the Preface toThe Prose Works of William Wordsworth

Table of Sigla and Abbreviations

Abbreviations

Critical Symposium onConcerning the Convention of Cintra

Richard Gravil,Wordsworth as Partisan Simon Bainbridge,A Self-Defeating Campaign David Bromwich,Vicarious Feeling: Spanish Independence, English Liberty Tomothy Michael,The State of Knowledge in ‘The Convention of Cintra’ Patrick Vincent,Sleep or Death? Republicanism in ‘The Convention of Cintra’

W. J. B. Owen’s edition ofConcerning the Convention of Cintra Introduction: General Introduction: Textual [Motto] and Advertisement The Text ofConcerning the Convention of Cintra Wordsworth’s Appendices Suspension of Arms  The Deînitive Convention  De Quincey’s Postscript on Sir John Moore’s Letters W. J. B. Owen’s Appendices Appendix I [Address on The Convention of Cintra]  Appendix II Contents of the Cornell Manuscript of De Quincey’s ‘Postscript  on Sir John Moore’s Letters’ (Healey Item 28O4) Commentary:Cintra Commentary: Appendix

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Preface

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The reason for this critical edition ofConcerning the Convention of Cintra, Words- worth’s most ambitious prose work, is not far to seek: 2008 saw the bicentennial of the Convention itself, and 2009 sees the bicentennial of Wordsworth’s belated tract upon that event—a tract which expresses with extraordinary passion the anger of many at such an egregious instance of a victorious army of liberation treating its defeated and imperial opponent to the spoils of victory, and, more generally, the fury of a generation at the imperial use made by Napoleon of France’s erstwhile patriotic armies.  The text for this edition is extracted from Volume 1 of the electronic version (2008) ofThe Prose Works of William Wordsworth (1974), as edited by W. J. B. Owen and Jane Worthington Smyser. Professor Owen’s general and textual introduc- tions, textual notes, appendices, and his commentary, still invaluable at this date, are retained in full (Professors Owen and Smyser divided the prose works between them, and the Cintra editing was solely his). The beneîts of electronic processing will ap- pear mainly in the following respects. First, the entire text is searchable. Second, the presence of editorial commentary is indicated by the symbol¶in the margin, or by the line number being in that colour, and the appropriate page of commentary can be accessed from the text via a hyperlinked button►in the margin. Third, the table of contents is itself hyperlinked, and is duplicated in the form of hyperlinked bookmarks at the left of the screen, enabling instant navigation between the general introduction, the textual introduction, Wordsworth’s text and appendices (themselves hyperlinked to and from the appropriate page of text), the editorial appendices, and the commentary. Fourth, the use of colour, and the separate lineation of columnized textual notes is designed to make these features of the editorial apparatus clearer and easier to construe than in the îrst edition.  It is hoped that this digital edition will enable scholars, critics and students to ac- cess the work in affordable form, so as to reach an informed judgement—whatever that judgment may be—on the curious critical controversies that recur from time to time as to the nature of its politics. And to stimulate the search for such judgement,

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the volume includes a critical symposium made up of a Foreword by the present edi- tor, two short contributions, by Simon Bainbridge and David Bromwich to a debate at the 2008 Wordsworth Summer Conference on the place of theCintrain Words- worth’s life and work, and two longer papers, by Timothy Michael and Patrick Vin- cent presented at the same conference. In the Critical Symposium, references to the the text are cited by line number (that is, the line numbers in this electronic text) and by page references to the Clarendon edition of theProse Works[Clarendon].  I am grateful, for varieties of help with the production of this text, to John Beer, Jeff Cowton, Michael John Kooy, Sam Ward, and Averill Buchanan, and of course to Betty and Lynette Owen, representing the estate of W. J. B. Owen, for their agree- ment to its production.

Richard Gravil, Tirril, 2009

Extract from te Preface to te Prose Works

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The texts of our edition, whether of works published by Wordsworth or of works left unpublished in manuscript, are, with one exception, the last to have been corrected by him. [The exception is the Preface toLyrical Ballads] Throughout the whole of our edi- tion, variants, both from manuscripts and earlier editions, are preserved in textual notes and occasionally in longer appendices. The last versions to be corrected by Words- worth have been adopted as the main texts not only because of the great importance which he attached ‘to following strictly the last Copy of the text of an Author’ (L.T., p. 473), but also because of the kinds of revisions that are peculiar to his prose. In the case of unpublished manuscripts, the last corrected version provides almost invari- ably the only coherent and clearly intelligible text, for earlier versions are little more than fragmentary rough drafts, with numerous deletions and rewritings. In the case of published works, with the exception just mentioned, Wordsworth did not alter the main arguments of his prose or contradict the original spirit and intent. He merely corrected misprints and factual errors, made stylistic improvements, clariîed ambiguous state- ments, and expanded earlier texts or added new sections. (On the rare occasions when an error was introduced into the înal text, we relegate it to the textual apparatus and print instead the most recent correct version.)  In separate introductions we describe in detail not only the various manuscripts but also any departures from our standard procedure in editing them. Here it is only necessary to set forth briey a few of the principles governing our editorial practice: we preserve the manuscript spellings and abbreviations, with all their inconsistencies; where the manuscript lacks pointing, we silently insert it for the sake of intelligibility, but wherever we alter a mark of punctuation, we record that alteration in a textual note; although we have endeavoured to preserve all deletions, we have not recorded the striking out and the immediate rewriting of identical words and phrases; we have also not recorded transpositions within a sentence of identical words, phrases, and clauses, and only rarely have we recorded the fact that some of the text was inserted, usually by means of a caret, at the very moment of composition. A table of sigla used in the textual notes will be found on p. [11].  Our general introductions are concerned primarily with deîning the date, occa-

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sion, and background of the particular work, and we have usually refrained from comment on its literary qualities. In our commentaries where we quote or cite the poetry of any major English poet without referring to a speciîc edition, we are using the edition of his work in the series known as the Oxford Standard Authors. Other- wise, works frequently cited are identiîed in the list of abbreviations.  For permission to publish manuscripts of Wordsworth’s prose and other related manuscripts, we are indebted to the Wordsworth Library in Grasmere, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Cornell University Library, Harvard University Library, Northwestern University Library, and Yale University Library. The speciîc manuscripts of these libraries are all iden- tiîed and described in subsequent introductions appropriate to them. But it should be added here that the numbering of the manuscripts in the Wordsworth Library at Grasmere, both those which we edit and those to which we briey refer, is what will some day, no doubt, be called ‘Old Style’. New numbers were assigned to all the manuscripts after this edition had gone into page proof, but scholars seeking to ex- amine the manuscripts at Grasmere will înd there a table of correspondences for the old and new numbering.  Professor Owen’s research has been generously supported by the Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canada Council, and McMaster University, and Professor Smyser’s by a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies and frequent research grants from Connecticut College.  We are also grateful to many scholars and friends who have assisted us in numerous ways and it is pleasant here to express our gratitude to them. Helen Darbishire comes îrst to mind for she welcomed us to Grasmere and aided us at the very beginning of this undertaking; her wisdom and generosity are unforgettable. The loyal support of Professor Basil Willey, as chairman of the Dove Cottage Trustees, has, over a long pe- riod of time, been invaluable; indeed, he and his fellow Trustees have made this edition possible. At Grasmere too we have found in the librarians allies par excellence: îrst, Miss Phoebe Johnson and later and for a longer time, Miss Nesta Clutterbuck. To them especially, but also to Dr. Stephen Gill, whose librarianship more briey overlapped our days of research, we are deeply grateful. By their admirable publications Professor Zera S. Fink, the late Professor George H. Healey, Mr. Alan G. Hill, Mrs. Mary Moor- man, Professor Mark L. Reed, and Professor Chester L. Shaver have advanced the work of all Wordsworth scholars; in addition they have personally assisted us in prompt and generous ways, which are greatly appreciated. At the Cornell University Library Professor Donald D. Eddy continues the cordial traditions of George Healey and we

he Convention of Cintra: a Critical Edition 10 acknowledge with thanks his many kindnesses. For generous aid of various kinds we are also indebted to Miss Helen K. Aitner, Connecticut College Library; the Revd. T. E. H. Baily, Shap; Dr. Paul F. Betz, Georgetown University; Dr. F. W. Bradbrook, University College of North Wales; Dr. Elizabeth M. Brennan, Westîeld College, Uni- versity of London; Professor A. D. Fitton Brown, University of Leicester; Professor M. L. Clarke, University College of North Wales; Miss Martha A. Connor, Swarthmore College Library; the late Professor John F. Danby, University College of North Wales; Miss Vera Farnell, Grasmere; Mrs. Sylvia Harris, Ambleside; the late Mrs. Beatrix Hogan; Mr. Wilmarth Lewis, Farmington, Connecticut; Mr. J. R. T. Pollard, University College of North Wales; Professor Frederick A. Pottle, Yale University; Professor T. M. Raysor, University of Nebraska; Mr. Kenneth Smith, Tullie House Library; Mr. J. H. Watkins, University College of North Wales; Dr. George J. Willauer, Jr., Connecticut College; Miss Marjorie G. Wynne, Yale University Library.  Finally, to Betty Owen and Hamilton Smyser, our shadow collaborators in count- less ways, we give our heartfelt thanks. One particularly generous contribution of Betty Owen’s must, however, be permitted to emerge into full light: she compiled for us a île of all proper names and all place-names that are now entered in our Index. If there are errors there, they are, like errors elsewhere in this work, ours. W. J. B. OWEN, McMaster University JANE WORTHINGTON SMYSER, Connecticut College