T.S. Eliot Editorial Project

T. S.艾略特编辑项目是协调，第一次，诗歌，戏剧，评论文章的编辑，也许是二十世纪最杰出和最有影响力的作家的信件。自艾略特1965年去世以来，他的全部作品只有部分的、不令人满意的来世。虽然未出版的克拉克和特恩布尔讲座，_形而上学诗歌的品种_，于1993年出版，建立了适当的文本原则和注释标准，这些材料，他的大量出版的散文已经绝版。此外，大量的散文作品，从散文和演讲到介绍和评论，以及对文学、宗教、政治、教育、出版和文化评论等各种问题的辩论的贡献，从未被收集过，以供渴望获得完整和注释版的世界各地的读者使用。虽然艾略特的部分诗歌--特别是《三月兔的发明》（1996）--已经以全套奖学金的形式发行，但大部分诗歌还没有被编辑到一个符合学者、学生和普通读者期望的标准。戏剧也是如此，在T。S.艾略特庄园和费伯和费伯，本项目将确保不少于六卷-（设想的7卷中的2卷），连同第三卷《书信集》（涵盖1926-1928年），由英国学者编辑或共同编辑，将于2012年交付出版。由于该项目汇集了专门的学者，编辑和评论家团队的工作，在英语研究所（主任，沃里克古尔德教授）在伦敦大学的学术管理下，所有的卷可以快速交付，并在同一时间。协调一致的努力是这项事业成功的关键。编辑们将合作，商定包括缩略语和交叉引用方式在内的惯例，并根据需要分享调查结果。各卷在介绍、仪器和补充材料（包括校勘、草稿和附录）方面也将保持一致。项目参与者将利用前所未有的共享档案资源（包括图书馆和大量的论文）的瓦莱丽艾略特夫人和费伯与费伯的收藏，也将分享独家访问教授舒查德的散文作品的数字数据库。这一合并企业的结果将是建立权威和完全协调的版本的诗歌，戏剧，散文和信件的最高文本准确性。最后，它将使读者能够看到整个艾略特：他的作品将包括200多篇印刷但未记录的散文和90篇未发表的散文。学术笔记将确定来源，典故和平行。此外，通过提供对已出版和未出版作品的整体访问，它将有助于对艾略特作为诗人，评论家，剧作家，出版商，通讯员和文化评论员进行新的和彻底的批评评估。此外，这一集体版将探讨艾略特的作品在其遗传，一般和艺术的关系，以彼此。艾略特自己在一次最近的采访中指出：“《燃烧的诺顿》一开始就有一些必须从《大教堂谋杀案》中剪下来的片段。他还煞费苦心地提出了一个更大的关键点，即“写剧本......对《四个四重奏》的创作产生了影响。“因此，本项目将为理解诗歌和戏剧以及所有相关作品之间的关系提供一个背景，它将促进对艾略特作品的最充分的欣赏和批判性理解。

The purpose of the T. S. Eliot Editorial Project is to co-ordinate, for the first time, the editing of the poetry, plays, critical writings, and correspondence of perhaps the pre-eminent and most influential writer of the twentieth century. Since Eliot's death in 1965 his oeuvre has had only a partial, unsatisfactory afterlife. While the unpublished Clark and Turnbull lectures, _The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry_, were published in 1993, establishing appropriate textual principles and annotational standards for such materials, a large amount of his published prose has gone out of print. Moreover, a remarkably extensive number of prose pieces, ranging from essays and lectures to introductions and reviews, and contributions to debates on questions as varied as literature, religion, politics, education, publishing and cultural commentary, have never been collected for the world-wide readership that aspires to enjoy access to a complete and annotated edition of his works. While portions of Eliot's poetry -- notably _Inventions of the March Hare_ (1996) -- have been issued in full-dress scholarship, the majority of the poems have not yet been edited to a standard that will meet the expectations of scholar, student and general reader. The same holds true for the plays.With the commitment and support of the T. S. Eliot Estate and Faber and Faber, this Project will ensure that no fewer than six volumes -- _Complete Poems_ (2 vols), _Complete Plays_ (1 vol), _Complete Prose_ (2 of an envisaged 7 vols), together with a third volume of the _Collected Letters_ (covering the period 1926-1928), edited or co-edited by UK-based scholars -- will be delivered for publication by the year 2012. Because the Project brings together the work of dedicated team of scholars, editors and critics, under the academic management of the Institute of English Studies (Director, Professor Warwick Gould) at the University of London, all of the volumes can be delivered in quick order, and at about the same time. Concerted and co-ordinated effort is the key to the success of this enterprise. The editors will work in partnership, agreeing upon conventions including abbreviations and modes of cross-reference, and sharing findings as needed. The volumes will correspond too in terms of presentation, apparatus and supplementary materials including collations, draft variants and appendices. The project participants will be making use of unprecedented and shared access to the archival resources (both the library and a wealth of papers) of the collections of Mrs Valerie Eliot and of Faber & Faber, and will also share exclusive access to Professor Schuchard's digital database of the prose writings.The outcome of this combined enterprise will be to establish authoritative and fully co-ordinated editions of the poetry, plays, prose and letters of the highest textual accuracy. At long last, it will enable readers to see Eliot whole: the tally of his works will include over 200 printed but unrecorded prose pieces and 90 unpublished prose items. Scholarly notes will identify sources, allusions and parallels. Also, by providing access to the totality of published and unpublished works, it will facilitate a fresh and thorough critical assessment of Eliot as poet, critic, playwright, publisher, correspondent and cultural commentator. In addition, this collective edition will situate Eliot's works in their genetic, generic and artistic relation to one another. Eliot himself noted, in a late interview: '_Burnt Norton_ began with bits that had to be cut out of _Murder in the Cathedral_.' He also took pains to make the larger critical point that 'writing plays ... made a difference to the writing of the _Four Quartets_.' This Project will accordingly afford a context for comprehending the relationship between the poems and plays and all associated works, and it will facilitate the fullest appreciation and critical comprehension of Eliot's work.