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Edgar Allan Poe — “How to Write a Blackwood Article”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “How to Write a Blackwood Article” (with “A Predicatment”) — reading copy — based on Text 00

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
  • "The Psyche Zenobia" (with "The Scythe of Time") — 1838, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "The Psyche Zenobia" (with "The Scythe of Time") — November 1838 — American Museum — Text 02  (Mabbott text A)
  • "How to Write a Blackwood Article"  (with "A Predicament") — 1842 — TGAPP — Text 04  (Mabbott text C)
  • "How to Write a Blackwood Article"   (with "A Predicament") — July 12, 1845 — Broadway Journal — Text 05  (Mabbott text D)  (This is Mabbott's copytext)

Reprints:
  • “How to Write a Blackwood Article”  (with "A Predicament")  — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (4:198-211 and 4:212-224) ("A Predicament" is given as "Article for Blackwood: A Predicament") (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms)
  • “How to Write a Blackwood Article” (with "A Predicament") — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales I, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (2:269-282 and 2:283-295, and 2:391-393 and 2:393-395)
  • “The Psyche Zenobia (How to Write a Blackwood Article)”  (with "A Predicament") — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:334-362)

Associated Material and Special versions:
  • "L'Initiation de la Signora Psyché Zénobia" — (French translation by Catulle Mendés, but without "A Predicament")
    • "L'Initiation de la Signora Psyché Zénobia" — December 3, 1876 — La République des Lettres (Paris — Lesclide)
    • "L'Initiation de la Signora Psyché Zénobia" — 1877 — in Les Folies Amoureuses, Paris: E. Dentu
  • "Comment écrire un article-Blackwood: la Théorie et la Pratique" — July 1885 — La Jeune Begique (Bruxelles) (French translation by Georges Eekhoud, from a Widdleton reprint of the Griswold edition of Poe's works)
  • "Comment s'écrit un article a la Blackwood" — 1887 — Edgar Poë: Derniers Contes, Paris: Albert Savine  (French translation by Félix Rabbe)











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Bibliography:
  • Allen, Michael, Poe and the British Magazine Tradition, New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.
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  • Gerber, Gerald, "The Coleridgean Context of Poe's Blackwood Satires," Emerson Society Quarterly (Fall 1970), 60:87-91.
  • Gerber, Gerald, "Milton and Poe's 'Modern Woman'," Poe Newsletter (December 1970), 3:25-26.
  • Hatagaki, Yuko, "Poe and Our Times 2: The Dissociation of the Self in 'A Predicament'," Jissen Women's Junior College Review, 1997, 18:16-24
  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Schuster, Richard, "More on the 'Fig-Pedler'," Poe Newsletter (June 1970), 3:22.
  • Taylor, Walter F., "Israfel in Motley," Sewanee Review (July - Sept. 1934), 42:330-340.
  • Tuttleton, James W., "A Note on 'The Bell-Tower': Melville's 'Blackwood Article'," Poe Studies (June 1973), 6:28-29.
  • 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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