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Edgar Allan Poe — “Lionizing”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “Lionizing” — reading copy — based on Text 00

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
  • "Lion-izing" — 1835, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "Lion-izing. A Tale"  — July 1835 — Southern Literary Messenger — Text 02 (Mabbott text A)  (This is Mabbott's copytext of the early version)
  • "Lionizing" — 1840 — TGA — Text 03 (Mabbott text B)
  • "Lionizing" — 1842 — TGAPP — Text 04 (Mabbott text C)
  • "Lionizing" — 1845 — TALES — Text 06 (Mabbott text E)  (This is Mabbott's copytext of the final version)

Reprints:
  • "Lionizing" — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text 06 (Mabbott text F)
  • “Lionizing” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (4:9-15)
  • “Some Passages in the Life of a Lion” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales I, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (2:35-41, and 2:323-330)
  • “Lion-izing. A Tale” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:169-177)
  • “Lionizing” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:178-187)

Associated Material and Special versions:
  • “Lionnerie” — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire)
    • “Etre un lion, conte moral” — February 19-22, 1855 — Le Pays
      • “Etre un lion, conte moral” — Part I  (February 19, 1855)
      • “Etre un lion, conte moral” — Part II  (February 22, 1855)
    • “Lionnerie” — 1857 — Nouvelles histoires par Edgar Poe, Paris: Michel Lévy frères
  • "Lionnerie" — 1950 — Histories grotesques et sérieuse par Edgar Poe, Paris: Classiques Garnier (French translation by Léon Lemonnier)











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Bibliography:
  • Anonymous, Southern Literary Messenger (May 1835), 1:531.
  • Arnold, John, "Poe's 'Lionizing': The Wound and the Bawdry," Literature and Psychology (1967), 17:52-54.
  • Benton, Richard P., "Poe's 'Lionizing': A Quiz on Willis and Lady Blessington," Studies in Short Fiction (Spring 1968), 5:239-245.
  • Benton, Richard P., "Reply to Professor Thompson," Studies in Short Fiction (Fall 1968), 6:97.
  • 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.
  • Jackson, David K., " 'Some Ancient Greek Authors': A Work of Poe," Notes & Queries (May 26, 1934); and American Literature (November 1933), 5:263-267.
  • 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.
  • Thompson, G. Richard, "On the Nose — Further Speculations on the Sources and Meaning of Poe's 'Lionizing'," Studies in Short Fiction (Fall 1968), 6:94-97.
  • 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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