for 32 days, i am showing samples of the problems with the text in e-books from the internet archive... *** today's example is again from our friend from baltimore, edgar allen poe, this time volume 1 of his collected works. here's the scan for page 29:
http://www.archive.org/stream/worksofedgaralle01poee#page/29
here's the o.c.r. for the whole book:
http://ia341314.us.archive.org/0/items/worksofedgaralle01poee/worksofedgaral... and here's the o.c.r. for page 29:
THE POETIC PRINCIPLE 29
work more thoroughly dignified, more supremely noble, than this verj^ poem, this poem per se, this poem which is a poem and nothing more, this poem wi'itten solely for the poem's sake.
With as deep a reverence for the True as ever inspired the bosom of man, I would nevertheless limit, in some measure, its modes of inculcation. I would limit to enforce them. I would not en- feeble them by dissipation. The demands of Truth are severe. She has no sympathy with the myrtles. All that which is so indispensable in Song is precisely all that with which she has nothing whatever to do. It is but making her a flaunting paradox to wreathe her in gems and flowers. \ln^ enforci ng a truth we need severity rather than etilo rescence "o? lans;uage . We^ miist be'simple, prec ise,"l:erse. We^QUst pe cooL c^ItQ: ummp assioned." In a word, "we must be in that mood wJiicli, as nearly as possible, isjtlia exaoj^ converse of the poe tical . He must be blind in- deed who does not perceive the radical and chas- mal difference between the truthful and the poetical modes of inculcation. He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who, in spite of these differences, shall still persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.
Dividing the world of mind into its three most immediately obvious distinctions, we have the Pure Intellect, Taste, and the Moral Sense. I place Taste in the middle because it is just this position which in the mind it occupies. It holds intimate relations with either extreme ; but from
once again, we have patron-inflicted annotations on this page, a few sentences which've been underlined. but if you examine the o.c.r. throughout the page, you'll also find errors elsewhere. mostly i choose this page because i was struck by the irony that the passages which people underline are likely quite meaningful; yet their underlining can cause o.c.r. to _miss_ that very passage. -bowerbird