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Edgar Allan Poe — “Lines on Joe Locke”






Texts and Variant Texts

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

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

  • "[Lines on Joe Locke]" — about 1831, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this the only known fragment from this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "[Lines on Joe Locke]" — February 28 and March 4, 1843 — Saturday Museum — Text 02  (Mabbott text A) (quoted as part of an article about Poe, attributed to H. B. Hirst)
    • "[Lines on Joe Locke]" — February 25, 1843 (no surviving copies located)
    • "[Lines on Joe Locke]" — March 4, 1843  (reprinted from February 25, 1843)
  • "[Lines on Joe Locke]" — November 1867 — second stanza only, Harper's Monthly (vol. 35, p. 754) — Text 03  (Mabbott text C)

Reprints:

  • "[Lines on Joe Locke]" — July 29, 1843 —  Baltimore Saturday Visiter (quoted from the Saturday Museum, in an article adapted from the one printed there.)
  • "[Lines on Joe Locke]" — October 13, 1849 — M'Makin's Model American Courier, Philadephia, PA
  • "[Lines on Joe Locke]" — October 20, 1849 — M'Makin's Model American Courier (formerly called the Saturday Courier)  (quoted as part of an article about Poe by H. B. Hirst.) — (Mabbott text B)
  • "[Lines on Joe Locke]" — 1876 — Laurel Leaves (p. 368)  (from an article by William F. Gill)  (reprinted from Saturday Museum)
  • "[Lines on Joe Locke]" — 1878 — Life of Poe (p. 53)  (biography by William F. Gill)  (reprinted from Saturday Museum)
  • "Lines To Joe Locke" — 1917 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co (p. 153, and p. 322)  (This poem was added to the second edition, and does not appear in the first edition of 1911)
  • “A West Point Lampoon” — 1917 —  The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (p. 139, and p. 299)
  • “A West Point Lampoon” — 1965 —  The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 141, and pp. 296-297)
  • “Lines on Joe Locke” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:150-151)

Associated Material and Special versions:

  • None.













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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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