The Poly-Olbion Project

迈克尔·德雷顿的《保利-奥比翁》于1612年和1622年分两部分出版，是一部描述国家的史诗。这首15,000行的诗歌按地形结构分成30首歌曲，专门针对英格兰和威尔士的不同国家或地区，是一个已经产生了克里斯托弗·萨克斯顿的地图集和威廉·卡姆登的《不列颠》的时代的产物，包括大量的历史和地理材料。例如，有关于这个国家的君主、圣徒和内战的长篇文章，以及鸟类、树木和花卉的目录。除了这首诗，前18首歌曲还配有散文《插图》，作者是17世纪最伟大的知识分子之一约翰·塞尔登。这些离奇的、离题的、学识渊博的笔记，总计约110对开页，本身就需要关注。最后，每首歌的前面都有一张地图，由威廉·霍尔雕刻。虽然这首诗在雅各布王朝几乎没有什么影响，让德雷顿在寻求赞助方面感到沮丧，但自出版以来的四个世纪里，它一直赢得了广泛的读者。然而，波利-奥比昂并不是一个独立的学术版本的主题，现有的权威版本，1933年出版的德雷顿作品的一卷，在其文本结构和注释上立即过时和轻薄。因此，这首诗并没有像德雷顿同时代的许多人那样受到编辑的关注。鉴于其本身的学术水平和细节，对这首诗的欣赏无疑受到了影响。这个项目的目的是利用新版本作为一种媒介，在我们的国家和地区文化中重新弘扬这首诗。该项目的基础是制作新版本所需的学术工作。这项工作并不是特别复杂的文本方面，因为德雷顿给我们留下了一个可靠的印刷来源；然而，它的更复杂的目的是注释德雷顿和塞尔登的文本到适当的水平，鉴于他们的作品的重要性和牛津大学出版社的期望。该项目旨在进一步产生关于Poly-Olbion的学术研究成果，最终是一次会议和一本出版的论文卷。虽然学术版和批判性出版物可能会受到学术读者的关注，但该项目的目标也是接触到更广泛的受众。它假定，Poly-Olbion，其丰富的细节，可能是一本对任何联合王国居民来说都可以理解和吸引人的文本。该项目网站将包括文本的开放获取版本，并带有地点和与GoogleMaps的连接的链接索引。此外，项目团队将与“辉煌艺术闪光”(FSA)合作，FSA是一个非营利性的创意艺术组织，致力于音乐、诗歌和视觉艺术，以实现社会变革，特别是在遗产教育领域。FSA将签约举办有特殊教育需要的儿童参加的讲习班，使用创新的方法介绍、探索和重新解释Poly-Olbion。FSA的董事们还将与项目团队合作，在皇家地理学会举办一个相关的公共展览和学术会议。拟议的PI和CI是文艺复兴时期的文学学者，在德雷顿研究领域享有盛誉。被提议的ARF 1将负责制作德雷顿诗歌的大部分文本注释，他是一名博士生，将于2012年9月接受考试，他支持PI和CI进行一个试点项目，制作了这首诗的第一首歌的网络版。拟议中的ARF2将负责对塞尔登的文本进行注释，他是一位受过华堡培训的知识分子历史学家，他的身份是基于他的相关技能和专业知识而确定的。

Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion, published in two parts in 1612 and 1622, is an epic of national description. Structured topographically, into thirty songs devoted to different counties or regions of England and Wales, the 15,000-line poem, a product of an era that had already produced Christopher Saxton's Atlas and William Camden's Britannia, includes an enormous range of historical and geographical material. There are extended passages, for instance, on the nation's monarchs, saints and civil wars, as well as catalogues of birds, trees and flowers. In addition to the poem, the first eighteen songs are accompanied by prose 'illustrations', written by one of the greatest intellectual figures of the seventeenth century, John Selden. These quirky, digressive and deeply learned notes, totalling c.110 folio pages, demand attention in their own right. Finally, each song is preceded by a map, engraved by William Hole. While the poem made little impact at the Jacobean court, leaving Drayton frustrated in his quest for patronage, it has won a consistently wide readership over the four centuries since its publication. Yet Poly-Olbion has not been the subject of an independent scholarly edition, and the existing authoritative edition, published in 1933 as one volume of Drayton's Works, is at once dated and slight in its textual apparatus and annotation. The poem has therefore enjoyed nothing like the editorial attention that has been committed to many of Drayton's contemporaries. Given its own level of scholarship and detail, appreciation of the poem has doubtless suffered as a result. This project aims to use a new edition as a vehicle to resituate the poem within our national and regional cultures. The project's foundation is the scholarly work required to produce that new edition. This work is not especially complex in textual terms, since Drayton left us with a reliable printed source; however, it is more complex given the aim to annotate the texts of both Drayton and Selden to an appropriate level, in light of the importance of their works and the expectations of Oxford University Press. The project aims further to generate scholarly work on Poly-Olbion, culminating in a conference and a published volume of essays. While a scholarly edition and critical publications may reasonably be expected to command attention among an academic readership, the project also aims to reach a wider audience. It posits that Poly-Olbion, with its wealth of detail, is potentially an accessible and engaging text to any inhabitant of the United Kingdom. The project website will include an open-access version of the text, with a linked index of places and connections to googlemaps. Moreover, the project team will work in collaboration with 'Flash of Splendour Arts' ('FSA'), a not-for-profit creative arts organisation that works with music, poetry and the visual arts to effect societal change, particularly within the field of heritage education. FSA will be contracted to present workshops involving children with special educational needs, using innovative methodologies to introduce, explore and reinterpret Poly-Olbion. The directors of FSA will also collaborate with the project team on a linked public exhibition and academic conference at the Royal Geographical Society. The proposed PI and CI are Renaissance literary scholars with established reputations in the field of Drayton studies. The proposed ARF 1, who would be responsible for producing much of the textual annotation of Drayton's poem, is a PhD student due to be examined in September 2012, who supported the PI and CI on a pilot project that produced an online edition of the poem's first song. The proposed ARF2, who would be responsible for annotation of Selden's text, is a Warburg-trained intellectual historian who has been identified on the basis of his relevant skills and expertise.