Reflexiones sobre los criterios que deben presidir la ordenación de un corpus de textos poéticos. El editor que desee llevar a cabo una tarea rigurosa deberá proceder de manera diferente en función de estas dos situaciones básicas en que se presente la tradición textual: si los textos poéticos se han transmitido en consideración de obra, esto es, en una disposición macrotextual realizada o autorizada por el autor, que, a modo de instancia autorial, informa la organización del conjunto; o si se han transmitido repartidos en testimonios varios, discrepantes y heterogéneos, en cuyo caso la dispositio final deberia regirse razonablemente por criterios genéricos vs. Métricos = This study presents a series of reflexions on the criteria that should govern the ordering of a corpus of poetic texts. An editor that wishes to undertake his task rigorously must procede in a different manner according to which of the following two basic situations the textual tradition is presented in: a) if the poetic texts have been transmitted within the concept of work, that is, one disposed in macrotextual fashion that was either constructed or authorised by the author, and that as a kind of authorial application serves to inform on the organization of the whole; or b) if the texts have been transmitted separately through various divergent and heterogeneous channels, in which case the final dispositio should be governed by considerations such as genre vs. metrical style.