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Texts and Variant Texts
Reading copy:
- “American Poetry” —
reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00)
Manuscripts and
Authorized
Printings:
- "American Poetry" (November 1843 —
delivered at
the William
Wirt Literary Institute in Philadelphia on November 21, 1843; at the
Temperance
Hall for the Franklin Lyceum in Wilmington, Deleware on November 28,
1843;
at the Newark Academy in Newark, Deleware on December 23, 1843;
repeated
in Philadelphia at the Philadelphia Museum on January 10, 1843; at the
Oddfellow's Hall in Baltimore, Maryland on January 31, 1844; and at
Academy
Hall for the Mechanics Institute on March 12, 1844. There are general
descriptions
of the lectures in newspapers of the time, and Poe no doubt reused much
of the material in subsequent reviews and his "Marginalia" and
"Literati"
series, but the actual lecture is now lost. The last version was stolen
from Poe's valise in Philadelphia sometime June 30 - July 7, 1849,
along
with the original manuscript of "The Poetic Principle.")
- "The Poets and Poetry of America"
(@1845 —
"Wrenn"
manuscript
fragment) (This lecture was delivered by Poe at the Society Library in
New York on February 28, 1845) (The manuscript was first mentioned by
Killis
Campbell in the article "Unique Poe Items," Literary Review of
the Evening
Post (New York), March 5, 1921, p. 14, and mentioned again by
Thomas
O. Mabbott in "Notes on Poe," Literary Review of the Evening
Post (New York), May 27, 1922, p. 694.) (The manuscript fragment is
currently at the University of Texas at Austin.)
- "The Poets and Poetry of America"
(@1848 —
"Whitman"
manuscript
fragment) (This lecture was delivered by Poe in Lowell, on July 10,
1848.)
(Poe gave Mrs. Whitman a section from his lecture which complimented
her.
The current location of the MS is unknown.)
Reprints:
Associated Material and Special versions:
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