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Texts and Variant Texts
Reading copy:
- “The Conqueror Worm” —
reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00)
Manuscripts and
Authorized
Printings:
- "The Conqueror Worm"
— 1842, no original manuscript or
fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded
in Text 02) — Text 01
- "The Conqueror Worm" — February 25 and March 4, 1843
— Saturday
Museum — Text 03 (Mabbott text B)
- "The Conqueror Worm" — February 25, 1843
(no surviving copies located)
- "The Conqueror Worm"
— March 4, 1843
(from February 25, 1843)
- "The Conqueror
Worm" — February 15, 1845
— in
"Ligeia," New
World — Text 04 (Mabbott text C)
- "The Conqueror
Worm" — September 27, 1845 — in
"Ligeia," Broadway
Journal — Text 06 (Mabbott text E)
- "The Conqueror Worm" — about March 1847 —
"Griswold"
manuscript,
lost but presumably recorded in Text 09 — Text 08 (Mabbott text
G) (J.H. Whitty, in his edition of Poe's poems, 1911, p. 224,
claims to have seen this manuscript, but does not record the text nor
where he saw it. He comments: "A MS. copy of the poem, originally sent
to Griswold by Poe and noted in Griswold's hand 'Last poem sent by
Poe,' has been compared. It follows the early texts with slight
punctuation changes." Whitty first mentions this manuscript in "New Poe
Poems and Manuscripts Found," New York Sun, also printed, on
the same date, in the Baltimore
American. In that article, he comments only: "It was also thought
that no manuscript copy of his poem The Conqueror Worm was in
existence, but one has been discovered." Although no date is given, it
seems most
reasonable that Poe sent the poem as the new edition of Griswold's
anthology was in preparation.)
- "The Conqueror Worm"
— May 29, 1847 — Poets
and Poetry
of
America
(8th
edition) — Text 09 (Mabbott text H)
- "The Conqueror Worm"
— 1849
— minor manuscript changes in the J. L. Graham copy of RAOP —
Text 10 (Mabbott text J) (This is Mabbott's copytext)
Reprints:
- "The Conqueror Worm"
—
about September 1849 — Richmond Examiner proof sheets — (the
text given by Whitty matches Text 10 almost 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.)
- “The Conqueror Worm” — 1875 — The Works of
Edgar
Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram,
Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black
(3:21-22)
- “The Conqueror Worm” —
1894-1895
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E.
Woodberry and E. C. Stedman,
Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:33-34, and p. 182)
- “The Conqueror Worm” — 1902 — The Complete Works
of
Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y.
Crowell (10:87-88, and 10:204)
- “The Conqueror Worm” — 1911 — The Complete Poems
of
Edgar Allan Poe, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (pp.
36-37, and pp. 224-225)
- “The Conqueror Worm” —
1917
— The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell,
Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 105-106, and pp. 242-243)
- “The Conqueor Worm” —
1965
— The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall,
Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (pp. 91-92, and pp.
257-258)
- “The Conqueror Worm” —
1969 — The Collected Works of
Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O.
Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
(1:323-328)
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