Afterview

1828, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, London: William Pickering, Volume 3, Translator’s Preface, The Death of Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller, pp. 252-253, A Translator stands connected with the original Author by a certain law of subordination, which makes it more decorous to point out excellencies than defects: indeed he is not likely to be a fair judge of either. The pleasure or disgust from his own labour will mingle with the feelings that arise from an afterview of the original.

A summary is a brief preview or afterview; it is many ideas, once over lightly. A summary of this book, for example, would present its three basic parts and list the major tools and techniques which are presented.

The afterview considers the outcome of my "restudy" of the papers in more detail, but two matters can be signaled early on.

England disappeared so quickly. Soon there was nothing but sea. […] I sat down to watch the spot where my country dissolved. It was there, etched on to my eyes like an afterview of the sun.