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Excerpt from Select Poems of Goethe: Edited With Life, Introductions, and Explanatory Notes
The textus receptas, if. The edition of 1840, has in the main been followed; at the same time readings of earlier editions have been occasionally admitted, and in a few places various readings have been discussed in the notes, where a history of the text seemed to throw light upon a passage. But critical questions have, for the most part, been avoided. In the matter of dates, the editors have tried to attain such accuracy and consistency as was possible In the present unsettled condition of the chrono logy of the Gedz'chte; on this point they have received much help from the Erlauterungen of Diintzer (2md edit.
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