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Collection of poetry: primary author - compiler or poet?
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Yes, the poet should be the primary author and the editor should be secondary for those books. The editor is only listed first for multi-author collections, not for collections of a single author's work.
http://www.goodreads.com/work/edition...
They all seem to be thrown into one combined collection of editions. Fair enough.
But I have also found another example, which is also a collection of Milton's poetry in one volume with annotations. It seems to be separate, and lists the compiler as the author, not the poet himself.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10...
So, which one's correct? Should I combine those two editions of The Annotated Milton with all those other poems, changing the author accordingly?