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Texts and Variant Texts Reading copy: “Eldorado” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00) Manuscripts and Authorized Printings: "Eldorado" — 1849, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01 "Eldorado" — April 21, 1849 — Flag of Our Union — Text 02  (Mabbott text A) Reprints: "Eldorado" — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text 02, with the addition of a single comma  (Mabbott text B)  (This is Mabbott's copytext) "Eldorado" — February 23, 1850 — Hartford Times (Hartford, CT) “Eldorado” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems  and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:31) “Eldorado” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:35, and 10:182)  (Woodberry and Stedman were aware of no printing earlier than Griswold's) “Eldorado” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:123, and 10:224) “Eldorado” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (p. 79, and p. 242) “Eldorado” — 1917 —  The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 128-129, and pp. 286-287) “Eldorado” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 117, and pp. 282-283) “Eldorado” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:461-465) Associated Material and Special versions: None

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Bibliography: Caputi, Anthony, "The Refrain in Poe's Poetry," American Literature, May 1953, 25:169-178 Carlson, Eric, "Poe's 'Eldorado'," Modern Language Notes, March 1961, 76:232-233 Coad, O. S., "The Meaning of Poe's 'Eldorado'," Modern Language Notes, January 1944, 59:59-61 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, "The Sources of Poe's 'Eldorado'," Modern Language Notes, May 1945, 60:312-314 Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol 1 Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969. Pollin, Burton R., "Poe's 'Eldorado' Viewed as a Song," Prairie Schooner, 1972, 46:228-235 Sanderlin, W. Stephan, "Poe's 'Eldorado' Again," Modern Language Notes, March 1956, 71:189-192

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