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‘The Choosers’: posthumous collections of Stevie Smith's poetry

‘The Choosers’: posthumous collections of Stevie Smith's poetry
‘The Choosers’: posthumous collections of Stevie Smith's poetry
The poetry of the British writer Stevie Smith has been re-edited and re-issued several times since her death in 1971, from James MacGibbon's edition of her 'Collected Poems' (1975) to a recent edition designed for young children entitled 'Our Bog is Dood' (1995). This article examines the kinds of assumptions posthumous editors have made about Smith's writing, and explores how her oeuvre has been recreated through this process.
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321-338
May, William
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May, William
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May, William (2005) ‘The Choosers’: posthumous collections of Stevie Smith's poetry. The Library, 6 (3), 321-338. (doi:10.1093/library/6.3.321).

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The poetry of the British writer Stevie Smith has been re-edited and re-issued several times since her death in 1971, from James MacGibbon's edition of her 'Collected Poems' (1975) to a recent edition designed for young children entitled 'Our Bog is Dood' (1995). This article examines the kinds of assumptions posthumous editors have made about Smith's writing, and explores how her oeuvre has been recreated through this process.

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Published date: September 2005

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Local EPrints ID: 63278
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/63278
ISSN: 0024-2160
PURE UUID: 56042491-3ee4-4895-9dfc-c6ffe3c84412

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Date deposited: 26 Sep 2008
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 11:37

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