{"product_id":"2940013693296","title":"Poetical Works","description":"The chief want hitherto felt by students of the poetry of Thomson has\u003cbr\u003ebeen a variorum edition of The Seasons. This I have endeavoured to\u003cbr\u003esupply in the present edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first edition of Winter appeared in March, 1726, and consisted of\u003cbr\u003eonly 405 lines. The second, published in the following June, contained\u003cbr\u003emany variations, and increased the original text by 58 lines. I give a\u003cbr\u003ereprint of the first Winter, accompanying it with the variations of the\u003cbr\u003esecond. Three other editions prior to 1730 were reprints of the second.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSummer was published in 1727; and consisted of 1, 146 lines. A second\u003cbr\u003eedition, which appeared in the same year, was a reprint.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpring came out in 1728, and consisted of 1, 082 lines: it was followed\u003cbr\u003ein 1729 by a reprint.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAutumn appeared in 1730 as part of the first edition of the collected\u003cbr\u003eSeasons, and consisted of 1, 269 lines. The Hymn, numbering 121 lines,\u003cbr\u003eappeared at the same time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut in this first edition of the whole Seasons, which was issued in two\u003cbr\u003eforms, quarto and octavo, Winter was augmented to 787 lines (781 in the\u003cbr\u003equarto), Summer to 1, 206, Spring to 1, 087; and there were numerous\u003cbr\u003echanges besides in the previous texts which are not indicated by mere\u003cbr\u003eincrement in the number of lines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween 1730 and 1738 no change was made in the separate or collected\u003cbr\u003etexts of The Seasons. Thomson was busy at other work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the edition of 1744 great changes were made--more especially in\u003cbr\u003eSummer and Winter--not merely by addition, but in other ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomson revised the text of The Seasons for the last time in 1746,\u003cbr\u003emaking a few alterations, and increasing the length of the poem as a\u003cbr\u003ewhole--by 10 lines. The final result was a poem of 5, 541 lines, made up\u003cbr\u003ein the following way:","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083157029104,"sku":"2940013693296","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013693296_p0.jpg?v=1763584451","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013693296","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}