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<title>M54, 5 of 11. [Anon: a more crowded, a more divided audience...]. Typescript fragment, 3 fols.</title>
<author>Virginia Woolf</author>
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<name>Joshua Phillips</name>
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<funder>The Leverhulme Trust: Grant ECF-2022-602</funder>
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<authority>The Estate of Virginia Woolf, administered by the Society of Authors</authority>
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<p>M54, 5 of 11. [a more crowded, a more divided audience...]. Typescript fragment, 3 fols.</p>
<p>N.B.: This is one of eleven sub-fragments identified the Berg Collection's M54. [Anon: The printing press brought the past into existence...]. Typescript fragments, unsigned and undated, 35 fols. I have determined pagination and sequencing based on subject matter. M54 as curated by the Berg Collection is available as part of 'The Digital Anon' and can be found at [LINK].</p>
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<p>Text encoded as part of 'The Digital "Anon": A Digital Genetic Edition of Virginia Woolf's Final Essays'. This project, funded by Leverhulme Grant ECF-2022-602, seeks to construct a TEI-XML based digital edition of the drafts of 'Anon' and 'The Reader', among the final documents Woolf wrote before her death.</p>
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<l>12</l>
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<l>a more crowded, a more divided audience, to a</l>
<l>public which desires
<choice>
<sic>accordind</sic>
<corr>according</corr>
</choice> to its education, its poverty,</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>it</sic>
<corr>its</corr>
</choice> wealth,
<choice>
<sic>n w</sic>
<corr>now</corr>
</choice> history, now instruction, now poetry itself,</l>
<l>and now whatever will make them forget the drab, the</l>
<l><del hand="ms">mudcoloured</del>, the dismal in their own lives. As the book</l>
<l>becomes more and more spun over with these influences,</l>
<l>the thing that the writer has to say becomes increasingly</l>
<l>cumbered. It is only to be discovered in a flash of</l>
<l>recognition Thus some say they that their beards</l>
<l>bristle when they come up on it; others that a thrill</l>
<l>runs down the nerves of the thigh. To disengage the song</l>
<l>from its encumbrances becomes as time
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<sic>gos</sic>
<corr>goes</corr>
</choice> on a task for</l>
<l>the critic-- that specially equipped taster and trier</l>
<l>who was not yet in existence <del hand="ms">in print</del> when <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-espe" key="Spenser">Spenser</rs> <add hand="ms" place="above">the <rs xml:id="lit-faer">F.Q.</rs></add> emerged</l>
<l>weed
<choice>
<sic>hunf</sic>
<corr>hung</corr>
</choice>
<choice>
<sic>peral</sic>
<corr>pearl</corr>
</choice>
<choice>
<sic>enc sted</sic>
<corr>encrusted</corr>
</choice> from the depths of silence.</l>
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<l>"For why, a Gods' name, may not we, as else the</l>
<l>Greekes, have the kingdome of our owne
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<sic>langauge</sic>
<corr>language</corr>
</choice>, and measure</l>
<l>our accents by the sound, reserving the quantity to the verse</l>
<l>Why in Gods name may not we have the kingdom of our own</l>
</quote>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">
<choice>
<sic>lanague</sic>
<corr>language</corr>
</choice></quote>--- thus he proves himself word
<choice>
<sic>cosncious</sic>
<corr>conscious</corr>
</choice>, an</l>
<l>artist, aware of his
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<sic>meidum</sic>
<corr>medium</corr>
</choice>, aware that words are not</l>
<l>paint, nor music;
<choice>
<sic>nbut</sic>
<corr>but</corr>
</choice> have their possibilities, their</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>mlimitations</sic>
<corr>limitations</corr>
</choice>. To be thus aware, the writer must</l>
<l>have a past behind him; as the
<choice>
<sic>hisrian</sic>
<corr>historian</corr>
</choice> to see the present,</l>
<l>must set it against an earlier age. To <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-espe">Spenser</rs>, the golden</l>
<l>age was Cahu <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-gcha" key="Chaucer, Geoffrey">Chaucers</rs>. <quote source="#" rend="inline">Dan Chaucer, well of English</quote></l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">un filed... "that the infusion sweete</quote></l>
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<l>13</l>
</p>
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<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">Of thine owne spirit which doth in me survive</quote></l>
<l>He looks back to
<rs type="person" xml:id="psn-gcha" key="Chaucer, Geoffrey"><choice>
<sic>Cah cer</sic>
<corr>Chaucer</corr>
</choice></rs>; he descends from
<choice>
<sic>Cahucer</sic>
<corr>Chaucer</corr>
</choice>.</l>
<l>It was Chaucer that gave him the <del>
<choice>
<sic>meausre</sic>
<corr>measure</corr>
</choice></del> <add hand="typewriter" place="above">
<choice>
<sic>stabdard</sic>
<corr>standard</corr>
</choice></add> by which to</l>
<l>measure
<choice>
<sic>hiw</sic>
<corr>his</corr>
</choice> own words. <add hand="ms" place="above">But</add> Where the modern writer
<choice>
<sic>attackes</sic>
<corr>attacks</corr>
</choice> the</l>
<l>actual works of some
<choice>
<sic>on</sic>
<corr>one</corr>
</choice> of the generation that is just</l>
<l>gone, making that book the kicking off point <add hand="ms" place="above">starting point</add> in another</l>
<l>direction, <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-espe" key="Spenser, Edmund">Spensers</rs> revolt was against no
<choice>
<sic>particualr</sic>
<corr>particular</corr>
</choice> writer</l>
<l>---had not years of silence intervened? <add hand="ms" place="above">who was there in English save <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-gcha" key="Chaucer, Geoffrey">Chaucer</rs>?</add>--- but against the</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>langauge</sic>
<corr>language</corr>
</choice> itself, its decay, since Chaucer, its corruption.</l>
<l>It was partly as an antidote to his own facility; <del hand="ms">that he</del></l>
<l><del hand="ms">needed him</del>. He found the e
<choice>
<sic>ourge</sic>
<corr>urge</corr>
</choice> which the self critical</l>
<l>writer so often applies to his own disease in the old English</l>
<l>words that were now o<del>n</del><add place="inline">b</add>solete. A glossary was added to the</l>
<l><rs type="person" xml:id="lit-shep" key="Shepherd's Calendar, The">Shepherds Calendar</rs> to explain them. But partly he used the</l>
<l>crabbed, English of the past not as we in our day</l>
<l>seek to bring back the sharpness which much use has worn</l>
<l>smooth; but to restrain what was to come. He was, as we <add hand="ms" place="inline">are not</add></l>
<l><del hand="ms">cannot be</del>, aware of the future. Everywhere, in
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<sic>ballds</sic>
<corr>ballads</corr>
</choice>,</l>
<l>songs, talk in the street, at the tavern, at the back</l>
<l>door, he heard
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<sic>wit</sic>
<corr>with</corr>
</choice> his acute ear for sound</l>
<l><del>that</del> something rising, moving,
<choice>
<sic>buursting</sic>
<corr>bursting</corr>
</choice> up</l>
<l>from
<choice>
<sic>beanth</sic>
<corr>beneath</corr>
</choice> <add place="inline">;</add><add place="above">deepening</add> the old exact words; the crabbed but precise</l>
<l>language of Chaucer. Was it not <add place="above">It was partly</add> to restrain that
<choice>
<sic>insur ction</sic>
<corr>insurrection</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>thzthe</sic>
<corr>that he</corr>
</choice> looked back to the <rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-cant" key="Canterbury Tales, The">Canterbury Pilgrims?</rs></l>
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<l><del>Yet</del> <add place="inline">W</add><del>w</del>hat comparison is possible between the poetry of</l>
<l><rs type="person" xml:id="psn-gcha" key="Chaucer, Geoffrey">Chaucer</rs> and the poetry of <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-espe" key="Spenser, Edmund">Spenser</rs>? The one clear, sharp,</l>
<l>
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<sic>me erry</sic>
<corr>merry</corr>
</choice>; definite;
<choice>
<sic>strifding</sic>
<corr>striding</corr>
</choice> straight on. the other sen</l>
<l>
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<sic>sisensuous</sic>
<corr>sensuous</corr>
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<l>14</l>
</p>
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<l>of
<choice>
<sic>th</sic>
<corr>the</corr>
</choice> forest glades. The one direct,
<choice>
<sic>abo t</sic>
<corr>about</corr>
</choice> this real</l>
<l>man, this real woman, here and now;
<choice>
<sic>th</sic>
<corr>the</corr>
</choice> other making qua</l>
<l>qualities
<choice>
<sic>og</sic>
<corr>of</corr>
</choice>
<choice>
<sic>noblenees</sic>
<corr>nobleness</corr>
</choice> of baseness in to
<choice>
<sic>symblic</sic>
<corr>symbolic</corr>
</choice> Knights,</l>
<l>or
<choice>
<sic>dawrfs</sic>
<corr>dwarfs</corr>
</choice>; and sending this
<choice>
<sic>visionay</sic>
<corr>visionary</corr>
</choice> company,
<choice>
<sic>thse</sic>
<corr>these</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>ladies and demons, these Squires and
<choice>
<sic>domerdaries</sic>
<corr>dromedaries</corr>
</choice>,</l>
<l>through time which is neither past
<choice>
<sic>npr</sic>
<corr>nor</corr>
</choice> present,</l>
<l>through lands which are neither <del>here</del> known or
<choice>
<sic>unkwon</sic>
<corr>unknown</corr>
</choice>. Like</l>
<l>the figures in dreams they are distorted;
<choice>
<sic>y tlike</sic>
<corr>like</corr>
</choice> dreams</l>
<l>very vivid, now close, now
<choice>
<sic>dfading</sic>
<corr>fading</corr>
</choice> away. Now,</l>
<l>like the
<choice>
<sic>fgures</sic>
<corr>figures</corr>
</choice> in some great fresco, they <del>composed</del></l>
<l>are <del hand="ms">composed</del> <add hand="ms" place="above">grouped</add>, with the flowers
<choice>
<sic>grwoing</sic>
<corr>growing</corr>
</choice> at their feet, and</l>
<l>behind them marble pillars, or trees with bright birds</l>
<l>and <add hand="ms" place="above">with</add> the libbard and the lion couchant or <choice>
<sic>romaning</sic>
<corr>roaming</corr>
</choice>.</l>
<l>The monotony of the metre, flinging its</l>
<l>curve of sound <add hand="ms" place="inline">[</add>like a wave that always falls<add hand="ms" place="inline">]</add> <add hand="ms" place="above">there</add> fills and</l>
<l>falls, like a wave, is beneath them. There is no tension;</l>
<l>no direction. but always movement, <del hand="ms">on and on</del> and bright</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>visons</sic>
<corr>visions</corr>
</choice>, <add hand="ms" place="inline">[</add>and folded in this
<choice>
<sic>inactation</sic>
<corr>incantation</corr>
</choice> we
<choice>
<sic>drwise</sic>
<corr>drowse</corr>
</choice> and</l>
<l>sleep; but again, wake so such is the and we sleep,</l>
<l><add hand="ms" place="above">so that we drowse yet</add> yet a start awake.</l>
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<l>English poetry, then, might have continued to be a v</l>
<l>book read aloud; a pageant; a recollection;
<choice>
<sic>somet ing</sic>
<corr>something</corr>
</choice> half</l>
<l>seen half heard, by the leisured, listening in
<choice>
<sic>th</sic>
<corr>the</corr>
</choice> great</l>
<l>room to some one reading aloud. <del>Only at the same time</del></l>
<l>But there was the other voice. - the voice of <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-anon" key="Anon">Anon</rs>;</l>
<l><del>the voice of the</del> not as we hear it, reading those first</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>carbbed</sic>
<corr>crabbed</corr>
</choice> lyrics in the beginning
<choice>
<sic>ot</sic>
<corr>of</corr>
</choice> the anthology; but the</l>
<l>voice that <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-espe" key="Spenser, Edmund">Spenser</rs> heard; loud; rough; brutal.</l>
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