The Cambridge Shakespeare been considered profane, where needed to preserve metre or meaning. In 2009, Cambridge University Press reissued all nine volumes as part of their "Cambridge Library Collection" which aims to preserve access to "books of enduring scholarly value". The reissued editions are: "The New Shakespeare" was published between 1921 and 1969. The series was edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch and J. Dover Wilson. The earlier volumes of the series contain critical introductions by Quiller-Couch (signed "Q") and written in a "belles lettres" style that, according to R. A. Foakes in "The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare" (2003), have been "largely forgotten". The textual
Arthur Quiller-Couch "Adventures in Criticism", and in 1898 he published a completion of Robert Louis Stevenson's unfinished novel, "St. Ives". From his Oxford time he was known as a writer of excellent verse. With the exception of the parodies entitled "Green Bays" (1893), his poetical work is contained in "Poems and Ballads" (1896). In 1895 he published an anthology from the 16th- and 17th-century English lyricists, "The Golden Pomp", followed in 1900 by the "Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900". Later editions of this extended the period of concern to 1918 and it remained the leading general anthology of English verse until