Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Archives & Scholarly Editions
Prologue: To the Reader
Historical Introduction: The Discovery, Transmission and Printing Histories of the “Master Letters”
Textual Introduction: From Letters to Documents: Imagining a New Edition of the “Master” Documents
Manuscript Witnesses & Transcriptions in Time
Dear Master / I am ill – (A 827)
Timeline, 1858–1860
Mute – thy Coronation – (A 825)
Timeline, 1860–1861
Oh ' did I offend it (A 829)
Timeline, Spring 1861
A wife – at Daybreak / I shall be – (A 826)
Timeline, Summer 1861
Master . / If you saw a bullet (A 828)
Reading Hours: Commentaries on the “Master” Documents
The Hour of Flowers: A 827
The Hour of Ermine: A 825
The Hour of Lead: A 829
The Midnight Hour: A 826
The Queen’s Hour: A 828
Appendix 1: Fascicled “Master” Poems
Appendix 2: A 826, Second Variant Version
Appendix 3: Additional Candidates for the “Master” Constellation, 1858–1861
Afterword: Interpretation in a New Key, by Jerome McGann
Works Cited & Further Reading