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Tennyson (search for this): chapter 22
f Venice with such success that by 1883 he had completed an edition of all the plays in forty volumes. It has long been accepted as a standard critical authority, being quoted as such by leading English and German editors. He was lately engaged in a thorough revision of this edition, doing this task after he had reached the age of seventy-five. He has also edited Scott's complete poems, as well as (separately) The Lady of the Lake and The lay of the last Minstrel ; an Edition de luxe of Tennyson's works in twelve volumes, and another, the Cambridge Edition, in one volume. He has edited volumes of selections from Milton, Gray, Goldsmith, Wordsworth, and Browning, with Mrs. Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese. He is also the author of Shakespeare the boy, with sketches of youthful life of that period; The Satchel guide to Europe, published anonymously for twenty-eight years; and a book on the Elementary study of English. With his son, John C. Rolfe, Ph. D., Professor of Latin i
Bowdler (search for this): chapter 22
ant changes have come to light since the disastrous attempt in that direction of Mr. Collier in 1852. On the other hand, we come to a new class of variations, which it would have been well perhaps to have stated more clearly in the volumes where they occur; namely, the studied omissions, in Rolfe's edition, of all indecent words or phrases. There is much to be said for and against this process of Bowdlerizing, as it was formerly called; and those who recall the publication of the original Bowdler experiment in this line, half a century ago, and the seven editions which it went through from 1818 to 1861, can remember with what disapproval such expurgation was long regarded. Even now it is to be noticed that the new edition of reprints of the early folio Shakespeares, edited by two ladies, Misses Clarke and Porter, adopts no such method. Of course the objection to the process is on the obvious ground that concealment creates curiosity, and the great majority of copies of Shakespeare
Walter Scott (search for this): chapter 22
cepted as a standard critical authority, being quoted as such by leading English and German editors. He was lately engaged in a thorough revision of this edition, doing this task after he had reached the age of seventy-five. He has also edited Scott's complete poems, as well as (separately) The Lady of the Lake and The lay of the last Minstrel ; an Edition de luxe of Tennyson's works in twelve volumes, and another, the Cambridge Edition, in one volume. He has edited volumes of selections frty certain that young people do not know it by heart so generally as they once did, and Wordsworth pronounced its dialect often unintelligible ; but we are all under obligation to Dr. Rolfe for his careful revision of this text. Turning now to Scott's Lady of the Lake, which would seem next in familiarity to Gray's Elegy, we find scores of corrections, made in Rolfe's, of errors that have crept gradually in since the edition of 1821. For instance, in Canto II, 1. 685, every edition since 18
William James Rolfe (search for this): chapter 22
XXI. William James Rolfe The man of one book (homo unius libri) whom St. Thomas Aquinas praised has now pretty nearly vanished from thFrancis Parkman was the most conspicuous representative, and William James Rolfe is perhaps the most noticeable successor,--a man who, upon a our public schools, and thus indirectly in our colleges. William James Rolfe, son of John and Lydia Davis (Moulton) Rolfe, was born on DeRolfe, was born on December 1, 1827, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, a rural city which has been the home at different times of a number of literary and public men chief avenue and ocean outlook, found attractive by all visitors. Rolfe's boyhood, however, was passed mainly in Lowell, Massachusetts, whedded to the original departments of Latin, Greek, and mathematics. Rolfe's boys enjoyed the studies in English literature, but feared lest tr on Shakespeare, was one of these boys. In the summer of 1857 Mr. Rolfe was invited to take charge of the high school at Lawrence, Massac
Samuel Longfellow (search for this): chapter 22
led to the discovery, at first seeming almost incredible, that the poems which most claimed the attention of the world have for that very reason been gradually most changed and perverted in printing. Gray's Elegy in a country Churchyard, for instance, has appeared in polyglot editions; it has been translated fifteen times into French, thirteen into Italian, twelve times into Latin, and so on down through Greek, German, Portuguese, and Hebrew. No one poem in the English language, even by Longfellow, equals it in this respect. The editions which appeared in Gray's own time were kept correct through his own careful supervision; and the changes in successive editions were at first those made by himself, usually improvements, as where he changed some village Cato to some village Hampden, and substituted in the same verse Milton for Tully and Cromwell for Caesar. But there are many errors in Pickering's edition, and these have been followed by most American copies. It may perhaps be d
Italian (search for this): chapter 22
ston, was offered to him rent free if he would keep a school in it, and, for want of anything better, he took it. He had to teach all the grammar and high school branches, including the fitting of boys for college, and his pupils ranged from ten years old to those two or three years older than himself. He was the only teacher, and heard from sixteen to twenty classes a day. Besides these, which included classes in Latin, French, Greek, and German, he had pupils out of school in Spanish and Italian, adding to all this the enterprise, then wholly new, of systematically teaching English with the study of standard writers. This was apparently a thing never done before that time in the whole United States. So marked was the impression made by his mode of teaching that it led to his appointment as principal of the pioneer public high schools at Dorchester, Massachusetts. He there required work in English of all his pupils, boys and girls alike, including those who had collegiate aims
Pickering (search for this): chapter 22
Greek, German, Portuguese, and Hebrew. No one poem in the English language, even by Longfellow, equals it in this respect. The editions which appeared in Gray's own time were kept correct through his own careful supervision; and the changes in successive editions were at first those made by himself, usually improvements, as where he changed some village Cato to some village Hampden, and substituted in the same verse Milton for Tully and Cromwell for Caesar. But there are many errors in Pickering's edition, and these have been followed by most American copies. It may perhaps be doubted whether Dr. Rolfe is quite correct in his opinion where he says in his preface to this ode, No vicissitudes of taste or fashion have affected its popularity ; it is pretty certain that young people do not know it by heart so generally as they once did, and Wordsworth pronounced its dialect often unintelligible ; but we are all under obligation to Dr. Rolfe for his careful revision of this text. T
Browning (search for this): chapter 22
e Lady of the Lake and The lay of the last Minstrel ; an Edition de luxe of Tennyson's works in twelve volumes, and another, the Cambridge Edition, in one volume. He has edited volumes of selections from Milton, Gray, Goldsmith, Wordsworth, and Browning, with Mrs. Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese. He is also the author of Shakespeare the boy, with sketches of youthful life of that period; The Satchel guide to Europe, published anonymously for twenty-eight years; and a book on the ElementMrs. Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese. He is also the author of Shakespeare the boy, with sketches of youthful life of that period; The Satchel guide to Europe, published anonymously for twenty-eight years; and a book on the Elementary study of English. With his son, John C. Rolfe, Ph. D., Professor of Latin in the University of Pennsylvania, he has edited Macaulay's Lays of ancient Rome. He has published a series of elementary English classics in six volumes. He has also supervised the publication of the New century edition de luxe of Shakespeare in twenty-four volumes, besides writing for it a Life of Shakespeare which fills a volume of five hundred and fifty pages, now published separately. It is safe to say that n
St. Thomas Aquinas (search for this): chapter 22
XXI. William James Rolfe The man of one book (homo unius libri) whom St. Thomas Aquinas praised has now pretty nearly vanished from the world; and those men are rare, especially in our versatile America, who have deliberately chosen one department of literary work and pursued it without essential variation up to old age. Of these, Francis Parkman was the most conspicuous representative, and William James Rolfe is perhaps the most noticeable successor,--a man who, upon a somewhat lower plane than Parkman, has made for himself a permanent mark in a high region of editorship, akin to that of Furnivall and a few compeers in England. A teacher by profession all his life, his especial sphere has been the English department, a department which he may indeed be said to have created in our public schools, and thus indirectly in our colleges. William James Rolfe, son of John and Lydia Davis (Moulton) Rolfe, was born on December 1, 1827, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, a rural city whic
Goldsmith (search for this): chapter 22
critical authority, being quoted as such by leading English and German editors. He was lately engaged in a thorough revision of this edition, doing this task after he had reached the age of seventy-five. He has also edited Scott's complete poems, as well as (separately) The Lady of the Lake and The lay of the last Minstrel ; an Edition de luxe of Tennyson's works in twelve volumes, and another, the Cambridge Edition, in one volume. He has edited volumes of selections from Milton, Gray, Goldsmith, Wordsworth, and Browning, with Mrs. Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese. He is also the author of Shakespeare the boy, with sketches of youthful life of that period; The Satchel guide to Europe, published anonymously for twenty-eight years; and a book on the Elementary study of English. With his son, John C. Rolfe, Ph. D., Professor of Latin in the University of Pennsylvania, he has edited Macaulay's Lays of ancient Rome. He has published a series of elementary English classics in s
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