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Texts and Variant Texts
Reading copy:
- “An Acrostic” —
reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 01)
Manuscripts and
Authorized
Printings:
- “An Acrostic” —
about 1829 —
manuscript — Text 01 (Mabbott text A) (Both Mabott and Stovall
note the poem as having been in the collection of H. Bradley Martin,
but it does not appear in the auction catalog for the sale of his
library, and is currently unlocated.)
Reprints:
This poem was never printed or reprinted during
Poe's
lifetime. This poem has been included, however, in several auction
catalogs and collections
of Poe's works, for which a few
prominent examples will be
sufficient.
- “[An Acrostic]” —
May 5, 1903
— Henkels Auction Catalog (lot
960, with only the first two lines printed) (the owner was
William Nelson of Paterson, NJ) (The entry states: "The poem is written
on a stained and slightly charred leaf that has evidently been cut out
of an 'Autograph Album.' It is thoroughly Poe-esque in its delicate
imagery, it [[in]] classic grace, and quaint turns of expression. It is
signed 'E. A. P.' The handwriting, though apparently of an early
period, approximates that of his later years.")
- “[An Acrostic]” —
May 19, 1905
— Anderson Auction Catalog (lot 366, with complete text
printed) (the owner is not specified, and the sale contains
material "mostly from private sources and including some choice items
from the collection of Evert Jansen Wendell." (The entry states: "ORIGINAL
MANUSCRIPT OF AN UNPUBLISHED POEM
OF EDGAR ALLAN POE.
Mounted on silk and inlaid on a sheet of Japan vellum paper bound up
with other blank sheets in a small folio volume, in crimson crushed
levant, lettered in gilt, bands of gilt tooling, gilt edges, by BRADSTREETS.
On an opposite sheet of the vellum the poem has been printed just as
written. The MS. of the poem has been a little browned by fire, and
some writing in another hand on the reverse of the sheet shows through.
The poem is on nine lines and signed 'E. A. P.' ")
- “From an Album” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of
Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co (p.
141, and p. 285)
- “An Acrostic” —
1917
— The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell,
Boston: Ginn and Company (p. 136, and p. 297) (Campbell notes
that the manuscript was then in the collection of George H. Richmond,
of New York City.)
- “An Acrostic” —
1965
— The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall,
Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 131, and p. 291)
- “An Acrostic” —
1969
— The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe - vol. I: Poems, ed.
Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press (1:149-150)
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