A Critical Edition of the Verse of Lord John Hervey

约翰·赫维勋爵诗句评论版

• 批准号: AH/I025220/1
• 负责人: William John Overton
• 金额: $ 3.81万
• 依托单位: Loughborough University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI025220%2F1
• 关键词: Critical; Edition; Verse; Lord; John

The project is to produce a critical edition of all the verse that can be identified of Lord John Hervey (1696-1743). As a key supporter of Sir Robert Walpole, and a close friend of Queen Caroline, Hervey is well known to historians. He is an important primary source of information about events and personalities during much of Walpole's administration, especially in his letters to Stephen and Henry Fox, and in his manuscript Some Materials towards Memoirs of the Reign of George II, not published in full until 1931, that he left incomplete after the Queen's death. He is also important to historians of gender and sexuality for reasons indicated by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's remark that the world consisted of 'men, women, and Herveys'. To students and scholars of literature, he is most familiar as the object of a satirical attack by Alexander Pope that portrayed him as vain, unprincipled and effeminate. Pope's attack has proved so successful that hardly anyone has paid serious attention to Hervey's verse, even though his skills as memoirist, political pamphleteer and letter-writer are well-recognized. Furthermore, research into Hervey's life and writings has been dominated by historical and biographical rather than literary concerns. Yet this very talented man wrote verse throughout his life, and much of it is accomplished. While some of it was printed, not always with his consent, much of it survives in manuscripts scattered among various libraries and archives. The proposed edition aims to bring to light all his verse that can be found and to make it available.The work for the edition falls into two main parts. First, bibliographical and archival research is needed to locate and identify verse by Hervey and then transcribe and edit it. For printed texts, this requires work in several major research libraries, as some are very rare and have not been digitized. Texts that survive only in manuscripts present more of a challenge. Although the majority are in three main collections, at the British Library, the West Suffolk Record Office at Bury St Edmunds, and the Harrowby Manuscripts Trust at Sandon Hall, Stafford, there is also material in, for example, the Bodleian Library at Oxford, the Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds (which has, however, been digitized), and the Portland Collection at the University of Nottingham. Second, the verse in these texts, some of which occurs in letters, has to be transcribed accurately and then presented in a clear, accessible form with details of differences between copies where more than one exists, and notes on biographical, historical or literary contexts, and also on unusual expressions and allusions.It is important that such an edition be produced both for literary and for historical reasons. While Hervey's verse is not on a footing with Pope's, it is of much greater literary value than has been appreciated. This was recognized in the eighteenth century by the quite prominent place he occupies in the best-known verse anthology of the period, Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems by Several Hands, yet his verse that exists only in manuscript is virtually or, in a few cases, completely unknown. Examples of unpublished material that will be of special interest are his verse tragedy Agrippina, which is modelled on parallels between Nero and his mother and Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Queen Caroline; his rendering into verse of the first three books of Fénelon's Les Aventures de Télémaque; some of the extempore verse he embedded in letters; and three lesbian love poems that do not seem to have a satirical intent transcribed by his friend Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Publication of a critical edition of Hervey's verse will make such material available for the first time. It will provide the basis for a much fairer and more accurate assessment of his significance as a writer, and it will prove an important source for historians as well as for students and scholars of literature.

该项目是产生一个关键版本的所有诗句，可以确定主约翰赫维（1696年至1743年）。作为罗伯特·沃波尔爵士的重要支持者，以及卡罗琳女王的密友，赫维在历史学家中广为人知。他是沃波尔执政期间事件和人物的重要主要信息来源，特别是他给斯蒂芬和亨利福克斯的信，以及他的手稿《乔治二世统治回忆录的一些材料》，直到1931年才全文出版，女王去世后他留下了不完整的部分。他对性别和性的历史学家也很重要，因为玛丽·沃特利·蒙塔古夫人说世界是由“男人、女人和赫维”组成的。对于文学的学生和学者来说，他最熟悉的是亚历山大波普讽刺攻击的对象，他被描绘成虚荣，无原则和娘娘腔。波普的攻击被证明是如此成功，以至于几乎没有人认真关注赫维的诗句，尽管他作为回忆录作者、政治小册子作者和写信人的技巧是公认的。此外，对赫维的生活和著作的研究主要是历史和传记，而不是文学方面的关注。然而，这位非常有才华的人一生都在写诗，而且大部分都完成了。虽然其中一些印刷，并不总是与他的同意，它的大部分生存在手稿分散在各个图书馆和档案馆。拟议的版本旨在揭示他所有的诗句，可以找到，并使其可用。工作的版本分为两个主要部分福尔斯。首先，需要进行书目和档案研究，以找到和识别赫维的诗句，然后转录和编辑它。对于印刷文本，这需要在几个主要的研究图书馆工作，因为有些非常罕见，还没有数字化。只有在手稿中幸存的文本提出了更多的挑战。虽然大部分收藏在大英图书馆、位于伯里圣埃德蒙兹的西萨福克档案馆和位于斯塔福德桑登霍尔的哈罗比曼恩普特信托基金会的三个主要馆藏中，但也有一些资料在牛津大学的博德莱安图书馆、利兹大学的布罗瑟顿馆藏（不过已经数字化）和诺丁汉大学的波特兰馆藏中。第二，这些文本中的诗句，其中一些出现在信件中，必须准确地转录，然后以一种清晰、易懂的形式呈现，在存在多个副本的情况下，详细说明副本之间的差异，并注意传记、历史或文学背景，以及不寻常的表达和典故。重要的是，这样的版本既要出于文学原因，也要出于历史原因。虽然赫维的诗句与波普的诗句无法相提并论，但它的文学价值比人们所欣赏的要大得多。这一点在18世纪得到了承认，因为他在当时最著名的诗歌选集《罗伯特·多德斯利诗集》（Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems by Several Hands）中占据了相当突出的地位，但他的诗歌只存在于手稿中，实际上或在少数情况下完全不为人所知。未发表的材料，将特别感兴趣的例子是他的诗悲剧阿格里皮娜，这是仿照尼禄和他的母亲和弗雷德里克，威尔士亲王和卡罗琳王后之间的相似之处;他的翻译成诗的前三本书费内隆的Les Aventures de Télémaque;一些即兴诗，他嵌入在信件;和三首女同性恋爱情诗，似乎没有讽刺的意图转录由他的朋友夫人玛丽沃特利蒙塔古。赫维诗歌评论版的出版将首次提供此类材料。它将为更公平、更准确地评估他作为一个作家的重要性提供基础，它将证明是历史学家以及文学学生和学者的重要来源。