List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Michael Edson

Part I: Georgic Annotation
1 Annotating Georgic Poetry
Karina Williamson and Michael Edson
2 William Falconer's The Shipwreck and the Birth of the Dictionary of the Marine
William Jones

Part II: Nationalism, Antiquarianism, and Annotation
3 The Afterlife of Annotation: How Robert of Gloucester Became the Founding Father of English Poetry
Jeff Strabone
4 Topographical Annotation in Thomas Percy's The Hermit of Warkworth and John Pinkerton's The Bruce
Thomas Van der Goten
5 Marginal Imprints: Robert Southey's Notes to Madoc
Alex Watson

Part III: Varieties of Annotation
6 A Translator's Annotation: Alexander Pope's Observations on His Iliad
David Hopkins
7 Allusion and Quotation in Chaucerian Annotation, 1687-1798
Tom Mason
8 Looking Homeward: Thomas Warton's Annotation of Milton and the Poetic Tradition
Adam Rounce

Part IV: Annotating the Canon
9 Zachary Grey's Annotations on Samuel Butler's Hudibras
Mark A. Pedreira
10 William Hymers and the Editing of William Collins's Poems, 1765-1797
Sandro Jung
11 Paratexting Beauty into Duty: Aesthetics and Morality in Late Eighteenth-Century Literary Collections
Barbara M. Benedict

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