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Edgar Allan Poe — “Fairyland”






Texts and Variant Texts

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

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
  • "[Heaven]" — 1829, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "[Heaven]" — September 1829 — of excerpts only, Yankee — Text 02  (Mabbott text A)
  • "[Untitled]" — November 1829 — of excerpts only, American Monthly — Text 03  (Mabbott text B)
  • "Fairyland" — 1829 — ATMP — Text 04  (Mabbott text C)
  • "Fairy-Land" — 1829 or 1830 — of excerpts only — Text 05  (Mabbott text D)
  • "Fairy Land" — 1831 — POEMS — Text 06  (Mabbott text E)
  • "Fairyland" — August 1839 — Burton's — Text 07  (Mabbott text F)
  • "Fairy-Land" — 1845 — manuscript revisions in ATMP in prepartion for RAOP — Text 08  (Mabbott text G)
  • "Fairyland" — October 4, 1845 — Broadway Journal — Text 09  (Mabbott text J)
  • "Fairy-Land"  — 1845 — RAOP — Text 10  (Mabbott text H)  (This is Mabbott's copytext)

Reprints:
  • “[Fairy Land]”  (May 7, 1831 — New York Mirror)  (reprint of excerpts from Poems in a short review)
  • "Fairy-Land"  — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold merely reprints Text 09  (Mabbott text K)
  • “Fairyland” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems  and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:86-87)
  • “Fairy-Land” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:136-137, and pp. 234-236)
  • “Fairy-Land” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:44-45, and 10:168-171)
  • “Fairy-Land” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (pp. 132-133, and pp. 280-282)
  • “Fairy-Land” — 1917 —  The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 53-56, and pp. 197-199)
  • “Fairy-Land” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (pp. 45-46, and pp. 208-211)  (In his notes, Stovall gives the full text of the 1831 "Fairy-Land.")
  • “Fairyland” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:138-142)

Associated Material and Special versions:
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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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