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Edgar Allan Poe — “Bridal Ballad”






Texts and Variant Texts

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

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
  • "Ballad" — 1836, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "Ballad" — January 1837 — Southern Literary Messenger — Text 02  (Mabbott text A)  (This is Mabbott's copytext for this early version)
  • "Ballad" — July 31, 1841 — Saturday Evening Post — Text 03  (Mabbott text B)
  • "Song of the Newly-Wedded"  — February 25 and March 4, 1843 — Saturday Museum  (part of a biographical article about Poe) — Text 04  (Mabbott text C)
    • "Song of the Newly-Wedded" — February 25, 1843  (No surviving copies located)
    • "Song of the Newly-Wedded" — March 4, 1843  (reprinted from February 25, 1843)
  • "Bridal Ballad" — August 2, 1845 — Broadway Journal — Text 05  (Mabbott text D)
  • "Bridal Ballad" — 1849 — manuscript revisions in J. Lorimer Graham copy of RAOP — Text 07  (Mabbott text F)  (This is Mabbott's copytext for the final version)
  • "Bridal Ballad" — about September 1849 — Richmond Examiner proof sheets — Text 08

Reprints:
  • "Bridal Ballad" — August 15, 1845 — Boston Post, p. 1 (reprinted with Poe's name from the Broadway Journal)  (This reprint noted by K. Ljungquist, p. 195n24.)
  • "Bridal Ballad" — about September 1849 — Richmond Examiner proof sheets — (the text given by Whitty matches Text 07 exactly. It may be surmised that the Examiner text was set from Poe's copy of RAOP. Strangely, Whitty does not list the J. L. Graham copy of RAOP in his versions of this poem, although he does include two references to this volume in the variants.)
  • "Bridal Ballad" — 1850 — WORKS — (Griswold reprints Text 06)  (Mabbott text G)
  • “Bridal Ballad” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems  and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:61)
  • “Bridal Ballad” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:12-13, and pp. 159-162)
  • “Bridal Ballad” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:81-82, and 10:198-199)
  • “Bridal Ballad” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (pp. 15-16, and pp. 201-204)
  • “Bridal Ballad” — 1917 —  The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 100-102, and pp. 234-235)
  • “Bridal Ballad” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (pp. 85-86, and pp. 251-252)
  • “Bridal Ballad” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:304-310)  (Mabbott gives two texts)

Associated Material and Special versions:
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Bibliography:
  • Caputi, Anthony, "The Refrain in Poe's Poetry," American Literature, May 1953, 25:169-178
  • 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.
  • Ljungquist, Kent P., Emersonian Circles, 1997
  • 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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