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Edgar Allan Poe — “Oh, Tempora! Oh, Mores!”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “Oh, Tempora! Oh, Mores” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00)

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
  • “O, Tempora! O, Mores!" — about 1825?, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in the reprints in Southern Opinion and the No Name Magazine, below) — Text 01  (Mabbott text A)

Reprints:
  • “O, Tempora! O, Mores!" — about 1868 — transcript —  (Mabbott text B)  (Mabbott notes this as "possibly existing, but now inaccessible." This transcript was used for the printing in Southern Opinon.)
  • “Oh, Tempora! Oh, Mores!” — October 1889 — No Name Magazine —  (Mabbott text D)  (This is Mabbott's copytext)
  • "Oh Tempora! Oh Mores!" — 1911, The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, pp. 161-165  (reprinted from No Name Magazine)
  • “O, Tempora! O, Mores!” — 1965 —  The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (0p. 137-140, and pp. 294-296)
  • “Oh, Tempora! Oh, Mores!” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:9-13)

Associated Material and Special versions:
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Bibliography:
  • Campbell, Killis, "Introduction — II. The Canon of Poe's Poems," The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Boston: Ginn and Co, 1917, pp. xxvii (especially footnote 3)
  • 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.
  • Hubbell, Hay B., "'O, Tempora! O, Mores!' A Juvenile Poem by Edgar Allan Poe," Elizabethan Studies and Other Essays in Honor of George F. Reynolds, University of Colorado Studies, series B, Studies in the Humanities, vol. 2, no. 4 pp. 314-321.
  • 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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