Thursday 22 June 2017

Emendation

EMENDATION

-noun
1. a correction or improvement in a text
2. the act or process of emending, i.e. to make corrections or improvements in (a text) by critical editing


















Though it was his duty
He found emendation tedious
And borderline sacrilegious

An assault on an author’s rights

1 comment:

mistah charley, ph.d. said...

while emendation is an attack on an author, i suggest that annotation, if carried out in the right spirit, is a sincere compliment