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Texts and Variant Texts Reading copy: “Poetry” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00) Manuscripts and Authorized Printings: “Poetry” — about 1824  — manuscript — Text 01  (Mabbott text A)  (This is Mabbott's copytext) Reprints: This brief poem was never printed or reprinted during Poe's lifetime. This poem has been included, however, in several collections of Poe's works, and other books on Poe's life, for which a few prominent examples will be sufficient “Poetry” — 1926 — in Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe, by Hervey Allen, New York: George H. Doran Co, facsimile of the original MS, facing 1:124  (in the one volume format first issued in 1934, the facsimile is facing p. 77) “Poetry” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:6, with a facsimile facing 1:582) Associated Material and Special versions: None

This poem was discovered about 1925 by Hervey Allen among the Ellis and Allan Papers at the Library of Congress.

Bibliography: Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943. Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol 1 Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.

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