User talk:Sweetpool50

Beeswaxcandle (talk) 09:47, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

A.E. Houseman's poems
I'm confused by your edit summary. Which spelling is in the 1922 first edition, and which is in the later editions? I think that the edition we're hosting is the first, but I don't have a print copy in my personal library to check against. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 09:47, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
 * You can check the poem online. I have the 1961 Penguin collection of AEH's poems, but I notice the online archive edition with the reading "spilt" is from 1940. Gutenberg has "split" but that's possibly a misread transcription. Ultimately it depends on which reading makes most sense. Tom Burns Haber, in his article Housman and Lucretius, |published in 1963, quotes the line as "spilt" and underpins it with two passages from Lucretius having that sense. Sweetpool50 (talk) 15:38, 22 April 2020 (UTC)