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Originally Posted by jgray
The reason I am posting here is to get various opinions and reasons as to whether I should or should not stay faithful to the printed version. I am only thinking about fixing the lines that were broken to fit the margins, not any other lines that were indented for poetic reasons. Attached is one example poem. The PDF is the original page and the GIF is a screenshot of the web version as it is now.
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My opinion is that you should remove the “format-imposed” line-breaks. I see those sorts of line-breaks as limitations, where paper was insufficient to present the poem as it “really is” and the layout needed to use special formatting to say “there isn’t really a line-break here – just ignore it.” No need carry the details of one particular instance of that limitation into a medium where it doesn’t exist.
And your editions are quite lovely
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