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Unread 04-08-2007, 08:43 AM
Marcia Karp Marcia Karp is offline
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George Herbert is always welcome, no matter the occasion.

There has been much textual confusion about his poems and their arrangement. Some editors have divided the 30 lines that are known as the poem "Easter" into "Easter (1)" and "Easter (2)"; the 12-lines here are "Easter (1)." Other editors see one organic whole made of the 30 lines, with the 13th line (its stanza is sometimes ignored in a 1:2 division) as the perfect a hinge for the two parts.

I know, too, that indenting takes a bit of work in the Erato editor, not it is not too difficult to reproduce Herbert's formatting and it seems only fair to the poem and the poet to do so.

Here's a link that shows the whole. The footnote references are a small nuisance. I hope the text is accurate.

Best wishes, and Happy Easter,
Marcia
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