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Edgar Allan Poe — “The City in the Sea”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “The City in the Sea” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00)

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
  • "The Doomed City" — 1831, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "The City of Sin" — August 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger — Text 03  (Mabbott text B)
  • "The City in the Sea" — August 30, 1845 — Broadway Journal — Text 05  (Mabbott text D)
  • "The City in the Sea" — 1845-1849 — manuscript revisions in J. Lorimer Graham copy of RAOP — Text 07  (Mabbott text F)
  • "The City in the Sea" — late 1849 — Poets and Poetry of America (10th edition, dated 1850) — Text 08  (Mabbott text G)

Reprints:
  • “"[The Doomed City]” — May 7, 1831 — New-York Mirror  (reprint of excerpts from Poems in a short review)
  • "The City in the Sea" — 1850 — WORKS — (Griswold reprints Text 06)  (Mabbott text H)  (This is Mabbott's copytext for the final version)
  • “The City in the Sea” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems  and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:54-56)
  • “The City in the Sea” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:22-23, and pp. 174-176)  (The full text of "The Doomed City" is given in the notes)
  • “The City in the Sea” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:49-50, and 10:175-178)
  • “The City in the Sea” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (pp. 29-30, and pp. 218-220)
  • “The City in the Sea” — 1917 —  The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 59-62, and pp. 207-210)
  • “The City in the Sea” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (pp. 50-51, and pp. 215-218)
  • “The City in the Sea” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:196-204)  (Mabbott give two texts, one for "The Doomed City" and one for "The City in the Sea")

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Bibliography:
  • Amacher, Richard E., "Poe's 'The City in the Sea'," Explicator, May 1961, vol. 19, item 60
  • Baker, Christopher, "Spenser and 'The City in the Sea'," Poe Newsletter, December 1972, 5:55
  • Baker, Harry T., "Coleridge's Influence on Poe's Poetry," Modern Language Notes, March 1910, 25:94-99
  • Basler, Roy P., "Poe's 'The City in the Sea'," Explicator (February 1946, vol. 4, item 30; reprinted in Sex, Symbolism and Psychology, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1948, pp. 192-195
  • Belden, Henry M., "Poe's 'The City in the Sea' and Dante's 'City of Dis'," American Literature, November 1935, 7:332-334
  • C., J. R., " 'The City in the Sea'," Explicator, April 1945, vol. 3.
  • Claudel, Alice Moser, "Mystic Symbols in Poe's 'The City in the Sea'," in Papers on Poe: Essays in Honor of John Ward Ostrom, ed. Richard P. Veler,  Springfield, OH: Chantry Music Press at Wittenberg University, 1972
  • Clough, Wilson O., "Poe's 'The City in the Sea' Revisited," in Essays on American Literature in Honor of Jay B. Hubbell, ed. Clarence Gohdes, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1967, pp. 77-89.
  • Driskell, Daniel, "Lucretius and 'The City in the Sea'," Poe Newsletter, December 1972, 5:54-55
  • Garrison, Joseph M., Jr., "Poe's 'City in the Sea'," Poe Studies, 1989, 22:43-44
  • 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.
  • J., H., "Edgar Allan Poe: An Unnoticed Plagiarism," Academy, June 25, 1910, 78:612-613
  • Keefer, T. Frederick, " 'The City in the Sea': A Reexamination," College English, March 1964, 25:436-439
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, "Poe's 'The City in the Sea'," Explicator, October 1945, vol. 4, item 1.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol 1 Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.
  • Pittman, Diana, "Key to the Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe: 'The Doomed City', 'The City of Sin,' and 'The City in the Sea'," Southern Literary Messenger, December 1941, 3:549-592 (this is the renewed form of the SLM)
  • Pound, Louise, "On Poe's 'The City in the Sea'," American Literature, March 1934, 6:22-27
  • Pound, Louise, "Poe's 'The City in the Sea' Again," American Literature, March 1936, 8:70-71
  • Rose, Marilyn, "Poe's 'The City in the Sea': A Conjecture," Emerson Society Quarterly, 1st Quarter 1968, 50:58-59
  • Stockton, Eric W., "Celestial Inferno: Poe's 'The City in the Sea'," Tennessee Studies in English, 1963, 8:99-106
  • Thorpe, Dwayne, "Poe's 'City in the Sea': Sources and Interpretation," American Literature, 1979, 51:394-399



 
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