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Texts and Variant Texts Reading copy: “Serenade” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00) Manuscripts and Authorized Printings: "Serenade" — 1833, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01 "Serenade" — April 20, 1833 — Baltimore Saturday Visiter — Text 02  (Mabbott text A)  (This is Mabbott's copytext) Reprints: “Serenade” — January 7, 1918 — article by John C. French, Johns Hopkins News-Letter “Serenade” — January 31, 1918 — article by John C. French, Dial (64:121) “Serenade” — May 1918 — in John C. French, "Poe and the Baltimore Saturday Visiter," Modern Language Notes (33:257) “Serenade” — 1917 —  The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (p. 137, and p. 298)  (although the copyright date is 1917, the notes reference several articles printed as late as May 1918) "Serenade" — 1918 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co (second edition, pp. 175-176) “Serenade” — 1965 —  The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 132, and p. 291-292) “Serenade” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:222-223) Associated Material and Special versions: None

This poem was discovered by John Calvin French in 1917.

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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