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