Editing Musophilus (section)

==Textual history==

Daniel first published ''Musophilus'' in his ''Poeticall Essayes'' of 1599.{{sfn|Hiller|Groves|1998|p=109}} The poem was published again in 1601/1602, largely unchanged except in accidentals such as punctuation, and in the deletion of the final three stanzas,{{sfn|Himelick|1965|p=101}} reducing the poem from 1002 to 984 lines. However, the text published in 1607 witnessed not only frequent revisions affecting diction and rhythm,{{sfn|Himelick|1965|pp=44-45}} but also extensive cuts, deleting nearly 200 lines.{{sfn|Himelick|1965|p=43}} A few further alterations were made for the 1611 edition, including a new dedicatory poem to [[Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke|Fulke Greville]], replacing the dedicatory sonnet to him in all other editions.{{sfn|Sprague|1930|pp=203-204}} Modern editors tend to be critical of these revisions, referring to them as "mutilations"{{sfn|Himelick|1965|p=101}} that "all but ruined" the poem,{{sfn|Sprague|1930|p=xxxi}} or, more diplomatically, "not always to the poem's advantage".{{sfn|Hiller|Groves|1998|p=111}} The posthumous ''Whole Works'' of 1623 returned to the 1601 version as its basis.{{sfn|Himelick|1965|p=101}}

All modern editions use either the 1599 text (Sprague;{{sfn|Sprague|1930|p=viii}} Hiller & Groves{{sfn|Hiller|Groves|1998|p=111}}) or the 1623 text (Grosart;{{sfn|Sprague|1930|p=203}} Himelick{{sfn|Himelick|1965|p=101}}) as their copy-texts.