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Texts and Variant Texts
Reading copy:
- “Al Aaraaf” —
reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00)
Manuscripts and
Authorized
Printings (full text):
- “Al Aaraaf” — 1829, no
original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version
is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
- “Al Aaraaf”
—
1829
— ATMP — Text 02 (Mabbott text C) (This is the
first full text)
- “Al Aaraaf”
—
1831
— POEMS — Text 03 (Mabbott text E) (with
substantial revisions)
- “Al Aaraaf” — 1845 —
manuscript changes
in ATMP
in preparation for RAOP — Text 04 (Mabbott text J)
- “Al Aaraaf” — October 1845
—
manuscript
changes
for reading in Boston — Text 05
- “Al Aaraaf” — 1845
—
essentially
a reprint of text 04, with only minor revisions, RAOP — Text
06 (Mabbott text K) (This is Mabbott's copytext)
Manuscripts and
Authorized
Printings (extracts):
- “Al Aaraaf”
— May 18,
1829
— of excerpts only — (Mabbott text A)
- “Al Aaraaf”
— December 1829 — of excerpts only — (Mabbott text B)
- “Al
Aaraaf” — December
29, 1829 — lines 130-131 only, manuscript letter with
extract
— (Mabbott text D)
- “[Al Aaraaf]”
—
1837
— two lines excerpted as the motto, in "Silence," The Baltimore
Book
for 1838 — (not noted by Mabbott, no variants except
the use of italics for one word, and minor issues of punctuation)
- “Spirit's Invocation” — February 25 and
March 4,
1843 — Saturday
Museum
(excerpts only, as part of a biographical article about Poe.)
— (Mabbott text F)
- “Spirit's Invocation” — February 25,
1843
(No
surviving
copies located)
- “Spirit's Invocation”
— March 4, 1843 (reprinted from February 25,
1843)
- “Al
Aaraaf” — February 1845 — excerpt
only, Graham's
(This excerpt appears in Lowell's article on Poe) —
(Mabbott text G)
- “Al
Aaraaf” — May 24, 1845 — excerpts
only, Broadway
Journal — (Mabbott text H)
- “Al Aaraaf”
— November- December 1846 —
extracts in "The
Rationale of
Verse," manuscript fragments — Text 13 (Mabbott text L)
- “Al Aaraaf”
— October 1848 —
extracts in
"The
Rationale
of Verse," Southern Literary Messenger — Text 14
(Mabbott text M)
- “Al Aaraaf”
— 1849 —
extracts in "A
Reviewer
Reviewed,"
manuscript — (Mabbott text N)
Reprints (full text):
- “Al Aaraaf” — 1830 — Baltimore Minerva
and Emerald
(excerpts,
printed as part of a review of ATMP)
- “Al Aaraaf” — November 4, 1845 — Boston
Daily Star,
p. 4
(reprint
noted by Ljundquist,
p. 206-208, item 7.)
- “Al Aaraaf” — November 5, 1845 — Boston
Daily Star,
p. 4
(reprint
noted by Ljundquist,
p. 208, item 8.)
- “Al Aaraaf” — November 6, 1845 — Boston
Daily Star,
p. 4
(reprint
noted by Ljundquist,
p. 208, item 9.)
- “Al Aaraaf”
—
1850
— WORKS — Griswold merely reprints Text 06 (Mabbott text
P)
- “Al Aaraaf” — 1875 — The Works of
Edgar
Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram,
Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black
(3:62-76)
- “Al Aaraaf” —
1894-1895
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E.
Woodberry and E. C. Stedman,
Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:107-120, and pp. 217-223)
- “Al Aaraaf” — 1902 — The Complete Works
of
Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y.
Crowell (10:23-39, and 10:157-163)
- “Al Aaraaf” — 1911 — The Complete Poems
of
Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton
Mifflin Co. (pp. 99-115,
and pp. 266-268)
- “Al Aaraaf” —
1917
— The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell,
Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 34-48, and pp. 171-192)
- “Al Aaraaf” —
1965
— The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall,
Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (pp. 25-40, and pp.
188-202)
- “Al Aaraaf” —
1969 — The Collected Works of
Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O.
Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
(1:92-127, and 1:159-160) (Mabbott prints the 1831 introductory
portion as "Mysterious Star")
Reprints (extracts):
- "Al Aaraaf" — 1850 —
extracts in "The
Rationale of
Verse," WORKS — Griswold reprints the SLM text of this
essay (Mabbott text Q)
- "Spirit Invocation" — 1850 — Thomas Powell, The
Living
Writers
of America, New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1850, pp. 116-117.
These
excerpts from "Al Aaraaf" were probably reprinted from the Saturday
Museum, which carries the title and essentially the same excerpts
used)
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