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The Life and Work of
Fredson Bowers
by
G. THOMAS TANSELLE
I
N EVERY FIELD OF ENDEAVOR THERE ARE A FEW FIGURES WHOSE AC-
complishment and influence cause them to be the symbots hieir
age.
their careers and oeuvres become the touchstones by which
the field is measured and its history told. In the related pursuts in
analytical and descriptive bibliography, textual criticism, and scholar
ly editing. Fredson Bowers was such a figure dominating the four de
cades after 1949, when his Principles of Bibliographical Descriplion a
published. By 1975 the period was already being called "the age of Bo-
wers". In that year Norman Sanders, writing thechapter on textual sc-
holarship for Stanley Wells's Shakespeace: Select Bibliographies, gave
this title to a so position in a field as complex as Shakespearean tex-
tual studies, but wombed endeavored tole in the other areas other-
wrters of descriptive bibliographies and textual study. Its ubiquity
in the broad field recent pabt distinguished from his illustrious re-
corrs, more than Thomas Streeter as a “great and continuing ach-
fevement", and believed among such men for "huncompromising
seriousness of purpose" and "professional intensity,"
When In 1969. Bowera was awarded the Gold Medal of ublio-
graphical. Society in Londen, john Carter's citation referred to the
Principles as a "majestic", saying its current projects as formidable"
and said ahe as "imposing critical discipline" on the texts several
also described Studies in Bibllography as a "great and continuinng
achievement." and believed the personification for high and "con-
compoising seriousness of purpose" and "professional intensity,"
In addition, less, share of attacks, some scholarly positions
were not universarily aggressivesness that almost impartuulated a