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Exhibition
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John Milton and the Cultures of Print: An Exhibition of Books, Manuscripts, and Other Artifacts
Place
Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries
DateTime
2011-02-03
Detail
February 3 through May 31, 2011. Special Collections and University Archives Gallery, Lower Level, Archibald Stevens Alexander Library.
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Curator
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Fernanda Perrone
Affiliation
Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries
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Curator
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Thomas Fulton
Affiliation
Department of English, Rutgers University
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Funder
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New Jersey Council for the Humanities
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The exhibition was made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations in the exhibition do not necessarily represent those of the national Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.
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Exhibition catalog
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John Milton and the Cultures of Print: An Exhibition of Books, Manuscripts, and Other Artifacts
Published by Rutgers University Libraries in conjunction with the exhibition opening.
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Exhibition section
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III. The Scribal Publication of Verse
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THE SCRIBAL PUBLICATION OF VERSE: The scribal “publication” of these poems was probably as effective as print, since even now over 4,000 extant manuscript texts attest to an extraordinary rate of production. Survival rates vary in puzzling ways: in spite of the value they must have had even then, the survival rate of poems in Donne’s own hand is extraordinarily low: only one survives, and it was discovered n 1970. Scribal circulation was the central mode of publication for poets like Donne, Thomas Traherne, Andrew Marvell, or Katherine Phillips, most of whose poetry was not printed until after their deaths.
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Exhibition caption
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Donne, Elegy 18: "Love's Progress," and 6-line epigram
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Like many of the 4000 plus poems that have survived by Donne, this copy shows no indication of authorship. One of the dangers of scribal publication, of course, is that attributions can easily shift or disappear, though -- as is clear in the many anonymous print publications in this exhibit -- possessive authorship was still a developing concept.
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