A Critical Edition of the Verse of Lord John Hervey

该项目是为约翰·赫维勋爵（1696-1743）的所有诗句制作一个批判版。作为罗伯特·沃波尔爵士的主要支持者和卡罗琳女王的密友，赫维在历史学家中很有名。他是沃波尔执政期间许多事件和人物的重要信息来源，尤其是在他给斯蒂芬和亨利·福克斯的信中，以及他的手稿《乔治二世统治回忆录的一些材料》中，直到1931年才完整出版，女王去世后他就没有完整出版。他对研究性别和性行为的历史学家也很重要，原因就像玛丽·沃特利·蒙塔古女士所说的，世界是由“男人、女人和赫维”组成的。对于文学学生和学者来说，他最熟悉的是亚历山大·波普（Alexander Pope）讽刺攻击的对象，把他描绘成一个虚荣、没有原则、娘娘腔的人。事实证明，波普的攻击是如此成功，以至于几乎没有人认真关注过赫维的诗句，尽管他写回忆录、写政治小册子和写信的技巧是公认的。此外，对赫维生平和作品的研究主要集中在历史和传记方面，而不是文学方面。然而，这位才华横溢的人终其一生都在写诗，而且大部分都是完成的。虽然其中一些被印刷出来，但并不总是得到他的同意，但其中大部分仍以手稿的形式保存下来，散落在各个图书馆和档案馆中。拟议的版本旨在揭示他所有可以找到的诗歌，并使其可用。这一版的工作主要分为两个部分。首先，需要书目和档案研究来定位和识别赫维的诗句，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。仅以手稿形式存在的文本带来了更多的挑战。虽然大部分资料集中在三个主要馆藏中，分别是大英图书馆、位于伯里圣埃德蒙兹的西萨福克档案室和位于斯塔福德桑顿厅的哈罗比手稿信托基金会，但也有一些资料在牛津大学的博德利图书馆、利兹大学的布罗德顿收藏馆（不过已经数字化了）和诺丁汉大学的波特兰收藏馆。其次，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，然后以清晰易懂的形式呈现，并详细说明存在多个副本的不同之处，并注释传记，历史或文学背景，以及不寻常的表达和典故。出于文学和历史的原因，制作这样一个版本是很重要的。虽然赫维的诗与波普的诗没有立足点，但它的文学价值比人们所认识到的要大得多。这一点在18世纪得到了认可，因为他在当时最著名的诗歌选集，罗伯特·多德利的《几手诗集》中占据了相当重要的位置，然而他的诗歌只存在于手稿中，实际上，或者在少数情况下，完全不为人所知。未发表的材料的例子将是特别感兴趣的是他的诗悲剧阿格里皮纳，这是模仿尼禄和他的母亲，腓特烈，威尔士王子和卡罗琳女王之间的相似之处；他把fsamelonon的《tsamelimaque历险记》的前三本书译成了诗；他在信中嵌入了一些即席诗；还有三首女同性恋情诗，似乎没有讽刺的意图，是由他的朋友玛丽·沃特利·蒙塔古女士抄写的。赫维诗歌评论版的出版将首次使这些材料成为可能。它将为更公平、更准确地评估他作为作家的意义提供基础，并将证明是历史学家以及文学学生和学者的重要资料。

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.