Note 39 — POEMS
Reading edition
Of these three methods, that of the Grolier Club editor is, there can be no doubt, the soundest. The edition of 1633 comes to us, indeed, with no a priori authority. It was not published, or (like the sermons) prepared for the press39 by the author; nor (as in the case of the first folio edition of Shakespeare's plays) was it issued by the author's executors.