Talk:Phantasmagoria (poem)

Latest comment: 6 years ago by P64 in topic Publication history

Spelling of Trysting/Trystyng

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My library's copy of "The Humorous Verse of Lewis Carroll" (1933, Macmillan, as reprinted by Dover) has the spelling as "Trystyng", not "Trysting". Which spelling is correct?

Update: I see that Ewulp has changed the spelling from Trysting to Trystyng. Greg (talk) 02:22, 29 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

(ec) It looks like you're correct about this; the 1883 edition of Rhyme? And Reason? also spells it "trystyng". Ewulp (talk) 02:28, 29 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

Publication history

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3.2 Phantasmagoria (poem)#Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)
(quote) This is puzzling as many library records for Phantasmagoria and Other Poems list the four purportedly original poems. Yet the statement is not reprinted from the 1869 first edition of Phantasmagoria and Other Poems, if "The Hunting of the Snark" was first published in 1876 as commonly stated.

The bold observation is true. See the corresponding 1869 statement (at HathiTrust). One aspect of the puzzle --only-- is that the 1883 Rhyme? collection is not a re-issue of the 1869 Phantasmagoria coll.; and they both differ in selection of poems from the 1911 Phantasmagoria coll., whose copyright page states "first published in 1869" (viewed as Project Gutenberg #651; 1911 Contents list).

Phantasmagoria, first published in the 1869 collection, is the first poem in all three collections.

Perhaps we should list the 1869 contents (at HathiTrust) as well as the 1883 contents . --P64 (talk) 23:43, 14 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Below are the Contents of the 1869 collection, 26 main listings only (transcribed from e-copy at HathiTrust pp. vii-viii) and the 1883 collection, 17 main listings only (transcribed from e-copy at HathiTrust pp. xi-xii). Check  Y marks common contents (10). --P64 (talk) 00:30, 25 March 2018 (UTC)Reply