Wordsworth \u3ci\u3eSenex\u3c/i\u3e: Review of \u3ci\u3eThe Cornell Wordsworth: Last Poems, 1821-1850\u3c/i\u3e, ed. Jared Curtis, with associate eds. April Lea Denny-Ferris and Jillian Heydt-Stevenson.

The Cornell Wordsworth is one of the most ambitious and, on the whole, one of the most successful multi-volume literary editions of our time. Nearly forty years ago, General Editor Stephen M. Parrish and other senior Wordsworthians conceived the project as a way to rescue the reputation of William Wordsworth (WW) from what they regarded as his mistaken tendency to age his poems as though they were fine wine by repeatedly revising them (some for . nineteen years or more) before he finally released them for publication. An original aim of the Cornell Wordsworth was, therefore, to make available from Wordsworth\u27s MSS what Parrish in his foreword now terms the original, often thought the best, versions of his work. After gaining access to the major collections of the poet\u27s MSS and securing support for the years of research and complicated publication, the editors brought out the first two volumes--The Salisbury Plain Poems (1975) edited by Stephen Gill and the two-part ur-version of The Prelude, 1798-1799, edited by Parrish (1977)-with two further documentary volumes still in preparation and an index volume slated to conclude the edition. Since then seventeen more volumes have appeared, including the subject of the present review. I previously vetted the first two volumes of the series in 1977 and the third title at the proof-stage for the MLA\u27s Center for Scholarly Editions (CSE) and reviewed another volume in 1982 for Studies in Romanticism.1 Thus, when I was asked to review Last Poems, I was happy to renew my acquaintance with the series in its later stages and am now delighted to bring the Cornell Wordsworth to the attention of those readers of Documentary Editing who are not familiar with it

The surprising attractiveness of tearing mode locking in tokamaks

Tearing modes in tokamaks typically rotate while small and then lock at a fixed location when larger. Research on present-day devices has focused almost exclusively on stabilisation of rotating modes, as it has been considered imperative to avoid locked modes. However, in larger devices, such as those contemplated for tokamak reactors, the locking occurs at a smaller island size, and the island can be safely stabilised after locking. The stabilisation of small locked modes can be performed at lower wave power and broader deposition compared to rotating islands. On large devices, it thus becomes surprisingly advantageous to allow the mode to grow and lock naturally before stabilising it. Calculations indicate that the ITER international megaproject would be best stabilised through this approach.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure