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Edgar Allan Poe — “For Annie”






Texts and Variant Texts

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

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
  • "For Annie" — March 23, 1849 — "Annie" manuscript — Text 01  (Mabbott text A)
  • "For Annie" — April 1, 1849 — "Chester" manuscript — Text 02
  • "For Annie" — April 28, 1849 — Flag of Our Union — Text 03  (Mabbott text B)
  • "For Annie" — April 20, 1849 — "Willis" manuscript — Text 04  (Mabbott text C)
  • "For Annie" — April 28, 1849 — Home Journal — Text 05  (Mabbott text D)
  • "For Annie" — May 16, 1849 — Oquawka Spectator — Text 06  (Mabbott text E)
  • "For Annie" — about late May, 1849 — manuscript sent to Griswold for PPA — Text 07  (The manuscript is now lost, put presumably recorded as Text 08)
  • "For Annie" — Dec. 15, 1849 — Poets and Poetry of America (10th edition, dated 1850) — Text 08  (Mabbott text F)
  • "For Annie" — 1850 — WORKS — Text 09  (Mabbott text G)  (This is Mabbott's copytext)
  • "For Annie" — about September 1849 — Richmond Examiner proof sheets — Text 10  (Mabbott text Z)
  • "For Annie" — September 26, 1849, text "H" — "Talley" manuscript, lost and not recorded — Text 11  (Mabbott text H)  (In her 1878 article "The Last Days of Edgar A. Poe," p. 714, Mrs. Weiss writes: "On the way I was met by Miss Poe, who delivered a note left for me by her brother, containing a MS. copy of 'Annie,' — a poem then almost unknown, and which I had expressed a wish to see.")

Reprints:
  • "For Annie" — July 31, 1849 — Richmond Daily Republican (from the Home Journal) (see The Poe Log, p. 820-821)
  • “For Annie” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems  and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:32-34)
  • “For Annie” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:90-93, and 10:195)
  • “For Annie” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:111-114, and 10:216)
  • “For Annie” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (pp. 74-77, and pp. 240-241)
  • “For Annie” — 1917 —  The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 129-133, and pp. 287-291)
  • “For Annie” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (pp. 118-122, and pp. 283-286)
  • “For Annie” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:452-461)

Associated Material and Special versions:
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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.
  • Hogue, L. Lynn, "Eroticism in Poe's 'For Annie'," Emerson Society Quarterly, Fall 1970, 60:85-87
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol 1 Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.
  • Robbins, J. Albert, "A New Manuscript of Poe's 'For Annie'," Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1986, 39:261-265



 
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