The Poly-Olbion Project

保利奥尔比恩项目

• 批准号: AH/K005073/1
• 负责人: Andrew McRae
• 金额: $ 49.02万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FK005073%2F1
• 关键词: Poly; Olbion; Project

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.

迈克尔·德雷顿 (Michael Drayton) 的《波利奥尔比恩》(Poly-Olbion) 于 1612 年和 1622 年分两部分出版，是一部民族描述史诗。这首 15,000 行的诗按照地形结构分为 30 首歌曲，专门描述英格兰和威尔士的不同县或地区，它是克里斯托弗·萨克斯顿 (Christopher Saxton) 的《阿特拉斯》和威廉·卡姆登 (William Camden) 的《不列颠尼亚》时代的产物，包含了大量的历史和地理材料。例如，书中有大量关于国家君主、圣人和内战的段落，以及鸟类、树木和花卉的目录。除了这首诗之外，前十八首歌曲还附有散文“插图”，作者是十七世纪最伟大的知识分子之一约翰·塞尔登。这些古怪、离题且深入的笔记，总共约 110 对开页，本身就值得关注。最后，每首歌曲之前都有一张由威廉·霍尔 (William Hole) 雕刻的地图。虽然这首诗在詹姆士一世时期的宫廷中影响不大，导致德雷顿在寻求赞助时受挫，但自出版以来的四个世纪以来，它一直赢得了广泛的读者。然而，《波利-奥尔比恩》并未成为独立学术版本的主题，现有的权威版本于 1933 年作为德雷顿作品集的一卷出版，其文本结构和注释立刻就过时了，而且内容也很薄弱。因此，这首诗没有像德雷顿同时代的许多人那样受到社论的关注。考虑到这首诗本身的学术水平和细节，对这首诗的欣赏无疑会受到影响。该项目旨在使用新版本作为载体，将这首诗重新融入我们的国家和地区文化中。该项目的基础是制作新版本所需的学术工作。这部作品在文本方面并不是特别复杂，因为德雷顿给我们留下了可靠的印刷资料；然而，考虑到德雷顿和塞尔登作品的重要性以及牛津大学出版社的期望，将德雷顿和塞尔登的文本注释到适当的水平，这就更加复杂。该项目的目标是进一步产生有关 Poly-Obion 的学术著作，最终形成一次会议并出版论文集。虽然学术版和批评出版物可能会引起学术读者的关注，但该项目还旨在覆盖更广泛的受众。它认为，《Poly-Obion》以其丰富的细节，对任何英国居民来说都可能是一本易于理解且引人入胜的文本。该项目网站将包括文本的开放获取版本，以及地点的链接索引和与谷歌地图的连接。此外，该项目团队还将与“Flash of Splendor Arts”（“FSA”）合作，这是一个非营利性创意艺术组织，致力于通过音乐、诗歌和视觉艺术来实现社会变革，特别是在遗产教育领域。 FSA 将签约举办涉及有特殊教育需要的儿童的研讨会，使用创新方法来介绍、探索和重新解释 Poly-Obion。 FSA 董事还将与项目团队合作，在皇家地理学会举办相关的公共展览和学术会议。拟议的PI和CI是在德雷顿研究领域享有盛誉的文艺复兴时期文学学者。拟议的 ARF 1 将负责制作德雷顿诗歌的大部分文本注释，他是一名将于 2012 年 9 月接受考试的博士生，他支持 PI 和 CI 的一个试点项目，该项目制作了这首诗的第一首歌曲的在线版本。拟议的 ARF2 负责对塞尔登文本进行注释，他是一位受过瓦尔堡培训的思想史学家，根据其相关技能和专业知识而被确定。

项目成果

Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion : maritime England and the free seas debates

迈克尔·德雷顿 (Michael Drayton) 的《Poly-Obion》：英格兰海事与自由海洋辩论

• DOI: 10.1080/0268117x.2018.1484632
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: The Seventeenth Century
• 作者: Logan S

The religious geography of Marvell's "An Horatian Ode": popery, presbytery, and parti-coloured picts

马维尔《贺拉斯颂歌》的宗教地理学：教皇制度、长老会制度和彩色图片

• DOI: 10.1080/0268117x.2018.1484636
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: The Seventeenth Century
• 作者: Mottram S

"A Tomb Once Stood in This Room"

“这个房间里曾经有一座坟墓”

• DOI: 10.1215/10829636-4402263
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
• 影响因子: 0.2
• 作者: Schwyzer P

"Neptune to the Common-wealth of England" (1652): the "Republican Britannia" and the continuity of interests

《海王星致英格兰联邦》（1652）：“共和大不列颠”和利益的连续性

• DOI: 10.1080/0268117x.2018.1484633
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: The Seventeenth Century
• 作者: Maley W

The age of the Cambro-Britons: hyphenated British identities in the seventeenth century

坎布罗英国人的时代：十七世纪的英国身份

• DOI: 10.1080/0268117x.2018.1484639
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: The Seventeenth Century
• 作者: Schwyzer P