Bernstein, Charles. Comens, Bruce. Cordes, Jocelyn. Corman, Cid. Hatlen, Burton. Hunt, Erica. Kalck, Xavier. Routledge, Malanga, Gerald. Melnick, David. Perelman, Bob. Wesleyan University Press, Rifkin, Libbie. University of Wisconsin Press, Salvato, Nick. Yale University Press, Scroggins, Mark. Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge. University of Alabama Press, Shoeman Hoard, Twitchell-Waas, Jeffrey. Notes to Bottom. Publishing History. At that time he began what he originally conceived of as an essay on Shakespeare, but in the end he worked more or less continually on the project until The chronology of composition indicated by the dates on manuscripts is as follows from Booth :.
Preface β Summer Colgate Univ. Part One β 15 Feb. Part Two, Section 1 β 1 Jan. Various short selections or snippets appeared in other small publications, sometimes selected by editors see below for further details. The complete text was published after various delays by Ark Press for the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas in February , although dated , as a deluxe boxed edition in two volumes on the confusion of publication dating, see Scroggins Bio However, for some reason the Wesleyan University Press edition of both volumes reproduces the Ark Press edition without these corrections for a list of the corrections go here.
The front apparatus of all three editions are somewhat different from each other, and in the case of the Wesleyan UP edition involves some repagination.
Strangely a significant note of thanks on the copyright page of the Ark Press edition disappeared from both reprints:. The author takes this occasion to thank. Mark Van Doren for his gift of. Note on the text : The Zukofskys noted a fair number of errata in their pre-publication copy of Bottom, and these corrections were incorporated into the University of California edition of volume 1 , but not into the Wesleyan University Press edition A list of these corrections plus a few further instances can be found here.
There are quite a few instances throughout Bottom where quotations marks are missing at one end or the other of quotations, but I have not attempted to identify these. The following is a chronological list of journal publications of segments from Bottom with precise indications of the excerpts:. New Directions Folio From Bottom: on Shakespeare. Poetry Damascus Road 1: [from Part Three ]. Origin 8, third series Jan. Workshop No. Although LZ gives references for the numerous quotations in Bottom , it should not be assumed that he read the original works, as he was perfectly willing to pick up quotations wherever he ran across them.
