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Edgar Allan Poe — “Loss of Breath”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “Loss of Breath” — reading copy — based on Text 00

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
  • "A Decided Loss" — 1831, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "A Decided Loss" — November 10, 1832 — Saturday Courier — Text 02  (Mabbott text A1)  (This is Mabbott's copytext for this title)
  • "Loss of Breath" — September 1835 — Southern Literary Messenger — Text 03  (Mabbott text A)
  • "Loss of Breath" — 1839 — manuscript revisions in  Southern Literary Messenger — Text 04  (Mabbott text B)
  • "Loss of Breath" — 1842 — TGAPP, title only — Text 06
  • "Loss of Breath"  — January 3, 1846 — Broadway Journal — Text 07  (Mabbott text D)
  • "Loss of Breath" — 1856 — WORKS — Text 08  (Mabbott text E)  (This is Mabbott's copytext for this title)

Reprints:
  • “Loss of Breath” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (4:75-91) (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms)
  • “Loss of Breath” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales I, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (2:151-167, and 2:356-367)
  • “A Decided Loss” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:51-61)
  • “Loss of Breath” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:61-82)

Associated Material and Special versions:
  • "L'homme sans souffle" — 1882 — Contes Grotesques par Edgar Poe, Paris: Paul Ollendorff  (French translation by Émile Hennequin)
  • "L'haleine perdue" — 1885 — Oeuvres Choisies d'Edgar Pöe, Paris: A. Hennuyer  (French translation by William L. Hughes)
  • "Perte d'Haleine — Conte qui n'est ni dans ni hors de Blackwood" — 1914 — Edgar Poe: Histories étranges et Merrveilleuses, Paris: Mercure de France (French translation by M. D. Calvocoressi, from the Harrison reprint of the SLM text)
  • “Décidément perdu” — 1991 — Edgar Poe: Le Chat Noir et Autres Contes, Paris: Le Livre de Poche  (French translation by Henri Justin of the 1832 version of the tale, based on Mabbott's printing of the text)











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Bibliography:
  • Abdoo, Sherlyn, "Poe's 'Loss of Breath' and the Problem of Writing," in The Elemental Passions of the Soul: Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition, ed. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Dordrecht, South Africa: Kluwer, 1992, pp. 581-594
  • Bachinger, Katrina E., "Towards a New Era in Poe Stdies: The Case for a Byronic Interpretation of Poe's Tales Illustrated by 'A Decided Loss' and 'Bon-Bon'," in Salzburg Miscellany: English and American Studies 1964-1984, ed. Wilfried Haslauer, Salzburg, Austra: Institut fur Anglistik & Amerikanstik, University of Salzburg, 1984, 1:37-54.
  • 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 (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978.
  • Varner, Cornelia, "Notes on Poe's Use of Contemporary Materials in Certain of his Stories," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, January 1933, 32:77-80.
  • Wyllie, John Cooke, "A List of the Texts of Poe's Tales," Humanistic Studies in Honor of John Calvin Metcalf, Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1941, pp. 322-338.



 
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