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Edgar Allan Poe — “A Campaign Song”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “A Campaign Song” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00)

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

  • "[A Campaign Song]" — 1844 — Text 01, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but a fragment of this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • “[Fragment of a Campaign Song]” — March 4, 1899 — New York Times Saturday Review — Text 02 — (Mabbott text A)  (This is Mabbott's copytext)  (This article is a reminiscence by Gabriel Harrison. Woodberry says the date was about March 1, 1899, and give the source as the New York Times)

Reprints:

This brief poem was never printed or reprinted during Poe's lifetime. This poem has been included, however, in several collections of Poe's works, for which a few prominent examples will be sufficient
  • “[Fragment of a Campaign Song]” — 1909 —  The Life of Edgar Allan Poe, George E. Woodberry, Boston: Houghton Mifflin (2:422)  (Woodberry reprints G. Harrison's reminiscence as it relates to the fragement of the song.)
  • “Fragment of a Campaign Song” — 1917 —  The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (p. 142, and pp. 301-302)
  • “Fragment of a Campaign Song” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:340-342)

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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