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Edgar Allan Poe — “Song”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “Song” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00)

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

  • "To — —" — 1827, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "To — —"  — 1827 — TAOP — Text 02  (Mabbott text A)
  • "To — —" — about 1828  — "Wilmer" manuscript — Text 03  (Mabbott text B)
  • "To — —"  — 1829 — ATMP — Text 04  (Mabbott text C)
  • "To — —"  — 1829 — ATMP-JN, presentation copy to John Neal (with one manuscript note) — Text 05  (Mabbott text D)
  • "Song"  — 1845 — manuscript changes in ATMP (in preparation for RAOP) — Text 06  (Mabbott text E)
  • "Song"  — September 20, 1845 — Broadway Journal — Text 07  (Mabbott text G)
  • "Song"  — 1845 — RAOP — Text 08  (Mabbott text F)

Reprints:

  • "Song"  — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text 08  (Mabbott text H)
  • “Song” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems  and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:89)
  • “To — —” — 1884 —  Tamerlane and Other Poems, ed. Richard Herne Shepherd, London: George Redway (pp. 41-42)  (Having long been thought lost, a copy of the original Tamerlane and Other Poems of 1827 was discovered in the British Museum and printed in this "second edition.")
  • “Song” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:131, and p. 229-230)
  • “To — —” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:10, and 10:147)
  • “Song” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (p. 117, and p. 271)
  • “Song” — 1917 —  The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 21-22, and p. 156)
  • “Song” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 12, and pp. 176-177)
  • “Song” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:65-67)

Associated Material and Special versions:

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Bibliography:
  • Adkins, N. F., "Poe's Borrowings," Notes & Queries, July 28, 1934, 167:67-68
  • 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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