- The Raven
- Manuscripts, and
Authorized or
Significant
Printings:
- "The Raven"
(February
1845,
text "A"
— American Review)
- "The Raven"
(January
29,
1845, text
"B" — Evening Mirror)
- "The Raven" (March 1845, text "C" — Southern
Literary
Messenger)
- "The Raven"
(February
3, 1845, text "D" — manuscript revision of lines 60-66 in a letter to
J. Augustus Shea)
- "The Raven" (February 4, 1845, text
"E" — New-York
Daily
Tribune) (Noted as "From the American Review for
February,"
although Poe is given as the author, first acknowledged in the Evening
Mirror.)
- "The Raven" (February 8, 1845, text
"F" — Broadway
Journal)
- "The
Raven"
(May 24, 1845, text "G" — lines 3-4
only, Broadway
Journal)
- "The Raven" (June 14, 1845, text "H"
— Critic)
- "The Raven"
(1845,
text
"J"
— RAOP)
- "The Raven" (late 1845, text "K" —
manuscript
revision of
lines
103-108)
- "The Raven" (December 1845, text "L"
— Literary
Emporium)
(The subtitle of this journal is "A Compendium of Religious Literary
and
Philosophical Knowledge.")
- "The Raven"
(April
1846, text "M" — lines quoted in "The Philosophy of Composition," Graham's)
- "The Raven" (July 25, 1846, text "N"
— Saturday
Courier)
- "The Raven" (May 29, 1847, text "P" —
Poets
and
Poetry
of
America) (The poem continued to appear in later editions.)
- "The Raven"
(January 1848, text "Q" — lines quoted
in the Southern
Literary Messenger, in article by P. P. Cooke)
- "The Raven" (September 1848, text "R"
—
"Whittaker"
manuscript) (Poe sent the MS to Eli Bowen about the end of
September 1848, apparently in reply to a request from Bown. Bowen
transmitted it to Dr. S. A. Whittaker on September 25, 1848.)
- "The Raven"
(1846-1849,
text "S" — manuscript
revisions in
J. Lorimer Graham RAOP)
- "The Raven"
(September
25,
1849, text
'T" — Semi-Weekly Examiner) (This is generally accepted
as the final authorized version of the text.)
- "The Raven"
(November 3,
1849,
text
"U" — M'Makin's Model American Courier, formerly called the
Saturday
Courier) (Short introductory notice titled "Poe's Great
Poem,"
followed by "The Raven, by the Late Edgar Allan Poe.") (This is a
reprint of of version "N".)
- "The Raven"
(1850,
text
'W"
— WORKS) (Griswold prints the poem from RAOP, with most of Poe's
corrections, but the typesetter retains some punctuation and adds two
errors.)
- "The Raven" (February 3, 1845 — New
York Morning
News)
(First documented by G. Thomas Tanselle in "An Unknown Early Appearance
of 'The Raven'," Studies in Bibliography, XVI, 1963 and noted
in Poe
Newsletter (Poe Studies), October 1968, p. 30)
- "The Raven" (February 8, 1845 — Weekly
Mirror)
- "The Raven" (February 8, 1845 — New-York
Weekly
Tribune)
- "The Raven" (February 15, 1845 — Howard
District Press
(Maryland))
- "The Raven" (February 15, 1845 — Pennsylvania
Inquirer
and
National Gazette (Philadelphia)) (not in H&C. Noted in 1992
"The
Poe Catalogue," of the 19th Century Bookshop, p. 75. The poem appears
there
under the heading "A Beautiful Poem.")
- "The Raven" (February 21, 1845
— The Liberator, p. 32)
- "The Raven" (February 23, 1845
— Western
Literary
Messenger, Buffalo, NY)
- "The Raven" (1845 (published by April
19, 1845) — A
Plain
System of Elocution, by G. Vandenhoff, second edition, New York)
(Although
this was an unauthorized reprint, it is the first appearance of the
poem
in a book. Later editions do not include the poem. It may have been
removed
by legal pressure.)
- "The Raven" (June 6, 1845 — Massachusetts
Temperance
Standard)
(not in H&C. Noted for sale by a dealer on Nov. 8, 2000.)
- "The Raven" (June 1849 — Lawrence
Messenger (MA)) (noted by Ljungquist) (No copies of this item
have been located, but the reprint is noted in the Lawrence Courier
for June 16, 1849.)
- "The Raven" (July 26, 1845 — Littel's
Living
Age)
- "The Raven" (December 1846 — Ladies
Wreath
and
Literary
Gatherer (Boston))
- "The Raven" (1848 — Literary
Annual)
(This
item is
listed
by H&C, p. 116. The subtitle of this journal is "A Compendium of
Religious
Literary and Philosophical Knowledge." It may be a reprint of the Literary
Emporium of 1845 noted above.)
- "The Raven" (November 1, 1848 — Dollar
Newspaper)
- "The Raven" (about November 1848 — Hartford
Weekly Gazette)
(This
paper was edited by Rufus White Griswold -- not to be confused with
Rufus
Wilmot Griswold, the person who edited Poe's works in 1850 and wrote
the
malicious memoir of Poe. Poe mentions the reprint of the poem in a
November
26, 1848 letter to Sarah Helen Whitman.)
- "The Raven" (September 12, 1849 — Oquawka
Spectator)
(Printed with the introductory note: "We publish on our first page,
this
week, one of the most remarkable poems ever written. Mr. Poe has long
held
the rank of one of our very best poets, and The Raven is in his best
style.
We bespeak for it a careful perusal. There will be found running
through
it, clothed in a robe of euphonious rhymes and remarkably appropriate
language,
an Idea well worthy of the pen of its author -- the never-dying
existence
of the memory.")
- "The Raven" (October 4, 1849 — Evening
Patriot,
Baltimore,
MD) (part of an obituary to Poe)
- "The Raven" (October 9, 1849 — Daily
Advertiser,
Newark,
NJ)
- "The Raven" (October 10, 1849 — Gazette,
Alexandria,
VA)
- "The Raven" (October 12, 1849 — Enquirer,
Richmond,
VA)
- "The Raven" (October 12, 1849 — Richmond
Whig
and
Public
Examiner, Richmond, VA) (reprinting the obituary from the Evening Patriot)
- "The Raven" (October 15, 1849 — Daily
Republican,
Richmond,
VA)
- "The Raven" (October 17, 1849 — Scioto
Journal,
Chillicothe,
OH) (reprinted from some unspecified Eastern paper)
- "The Raven" (October 17, 1849 — Louisville
Daily Journal,
Louisville, KY) (only a few stanzas)
- "The Raven" (October 21, 1849 — Mobile
Daily
Advertiser,
Mobile, AL)
- "The Raven" (October 23, 1849 — Daily
Chronicle
and
Sentinel,
Augusta, GA)
- "The Raven" (October 24, 1849 — Pennsylvania
Telegraph,
Harrisburg, PA)
- "The Raven" (November 2, 1849 — True
Whig,
Mount
Vernon,
OH)
- "The Raven" (November 4, 1849 — Literary
American,
NY,
only 3 stanzas)
- "The Raven" (November 14, 1849 — Corning
Journal,
Corning,
NY)"The Raven" (November 1849 — Southern Literary
Messenger,
Richmond, VA)
- "The Raven" (November 22, 1849 — Vincennes
Gazette,
Vincennes, IN)
- "The Raven" (November 1849 — Southern
Baptist,
Charleston,
SC)
- "The Raven" (December 9, 1849 — Weekly
Register,
Mobile,
AL)
- "The Raven" (December 15, 1849 — Boston
Weekly
Museum
and
Literary Portfolio)
- "The Raven" (1850 — Thomas Powell, The
Living
Writers
of
America,
New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1850, pp. 128-131, omitting several
stanzas)
- "The Raven" (1851 — Parker's
Fourth Reader)
(The
poem
is lesson CLXXIV)
- "The Raven" (1852 — The String of Diamonds,
Gathered from
Many Mines,
by "A Gem Fancier." ) (copyright is 1851. It also includes "The
Bells,"
and many poems by other poets.)
- "The Raven" (1852 — Tales and Sketches: to
which is
added The Raven: A Poem, London, George Routledge & Co.)
- "The Raven" (1856 — Cyclopedia of
American
Literature,
New
York: Charles Scribner)
- "The Raven" (September 1857 — The
Orator)
- "The Raven" (1858 — Achievements of
Americans, Cincinnati: Henry Howe)
(along with "Annabel Lee")
- "The Raven" (1858 — Poets of the
Nineteenth
Century)
(an anthology edited by Poe's friend Evert A. Duyckinck. "The Raven" is
one of Poe's most-collected poems, appearing in hundreds of
anthologies.)
- "The Raven" (1859 — Lovell's
Progressive Readers,
No. 5,
New Haven: Peck, White and Peck) (The subtitle reads: "A
Class Book for the use of Advanced Pupils in Public and Private
Schools. It is edited by John E. Lovell. The copyright date is also
1859, suggesting that this was the first edition.)
- "The Raven" (1865 — Golden Leaves from
the American
Poets,
collected by John W. S. Hows, New York: Bunce and Huntington) (This a
common collection of popular poems includes works by Poe, Emerson,
Longfellow, J. R. Lowell, F. S. Key, Whittier, and others.)
- "The Raven" (1865 — a new year's greeting
in the form
of a 7 page booklet, on heavy card stock, printed for the Philadelphia
Inquirer. It includes the illustration used in several of the
Widdleton editions of the Poems, although the illustration appears
slightly different and may be reversed.)
- "The Raven" (May 1870 — Deforest's Monthly Magazine) (This
printing features 10 pleasant but unremarkable vignette illustrations.
Not surprisingly, the narrator looks a great deal like Poe.)
- and many others
- Translations:
- "Le Corbeau" (French
translation by Charles Baudelaire.)
- "Der Rabe" (November 6, 1853 —
"Literarische Symptome
in den Vereiniften Staaten," Magazine
für die Literatur des
Auslandes) (German translation in an article by Elise von
Hohenhausen,
70:278-280)
- "[The Raven]" (1857 — "Edgar Allan Poe," Magazin für die Literatur des
Auslandes, 129:513-514.) (German translation by Luise von
Ploennis.)
- "Der Rabe" (1859 — Amerikanische
Gedichte [American Poems])
(German translation by Friederich Spielhagen)
- "De Raaf" (1861 — Holland) (Dutch
translation by Jacob van Lennep) (This information was provided
by René van Slooten, who also notes that a thorough search of
the Royal Library at the Hague produced no other translations of Poe's
works before 1900. Apparently, French was widely spoken in the
Netherlands and Baudelaire's translations were easily available.)
- "Le Corbeau" (1862 — Contes
inédits d'Edgard Poe) (French translation by William
Hughes, with a few stanzas reprinted by Ingram, The Raven, with Literary and Historical
Commentary, London: George Redway, 1885, pp. 41-42.)
- "Der Rabe" (1862 — Lieder
und Balladenbuch Americanischer und Englischer Dichter, Hamburg)
(translation by Adolf Strodtmann, a few verses are reprinted by Ingram,
The Raven, with
Literary and
Historical Commentary, London: George Redway, 1885, pp. 72-73.)
- ["The Raven, in Latin"] (1866 — Oxford and
London) (Latin translation by Ludovicus Gidley and Robinson
Thornton, from a volume of translations called Fasciculus. The translation of "The
Raven" is reprinted by Ingram, The
Raven, with Literary and Historical Commentary, London: George
Redway, 1885, pp. 79-83.)
- "Der Rabe" (1869 — Philadelphia) (German
translation by Carl
Theodor Eben, reprinted by Ingram, The
Raven, with Literary and Historical Commentary, London: George
Redway, 1885, pp. 60-65)
- "A Hollo" (1870 — Budapest) (Hungarian
Translation by
Endrody, from Nagy Szellemek [Great Men], edited by Thomas Szana,
reprinted by Ingram, The Raven, with
Literary and Historical Commentary, London: George Redway, 1885,
pp. 74-78.)
- "Le Corbeau" (1875 — French translation by
Stèphane Mallarmé, reprinted by Ingram, The Raven, with Literary and Historical
Commentary, London: George Redway, 1885, pp. 42-48.)
- "[The Raven"] (1878 — Vestnik Evropy, III)
(Russian
translation by Konstantin Balmont)
- "Der Rabe" (February 28, 1880 — Magazine für die Literatur des
Auslandes) (German translation by Betty Jacobson,
reprinted by Ingram, The Raven, with
Literary and Historical Commentary, London: George Redway, 1885,
pp. 66-71.)
- "El Cuervo" (1887 — New York: "La America"
Publishing Co) (translation by J. A. Perez Bonalde, with many
illustrations)
- "Poe's Raven" (July 7, 1891 — Pennsylvania
Dutch
translation by H. L. Fischer, 7 pages, printed in Mapleshade, York,
PA) (copy sold by 19th Century Bookshop, 1992, item 510)
- and many others
- Forgeries:
- T. O. Mabbott notes that "A 'complete manuscript'
reproduced
in Muse Anthology of Modern Poetry (New York, 1939) is generally
regarded as a recent concoction" (Poems, 1969, p. 364). This manuscript
is different from the one in the Gimbel collection (version "R" above),
which is considered authentic.
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- Romance
- Authorized or
Significant
Printings:
- "Preface"
(1829, text
"A"
— ATMP)
- "Preface"
(December
29, 1829, text "B" — lines 11-15 only, manuscript letter)
- "Introduction"
(1831,
text
"C" — POEMS)
- "[Untitled]" (February 25, 1843 — Saturday
Museum)
(no surviving copies located)
- "[Untitled]" (March 4, 1843, text "D"
— Saturday
Museum)
(from February 25, 1843)
- "Romance" (1845, text "E" —
manuscript changes
in ATMP
in preparation for RAOP)
- "Romance" (August 30, 1845, text "F"
— Broadway
Journal)
- "Romance"
(1845,
text
"G"
— RAOP)
- "Romance"
(1850,
text
"H"
— WORKS)
- "[Untitled]" (April 26, 1850, text
"J" — lines
11-15,
printed
from text "B," Portland Daily Advertiser)
- "Romance" (September 3, 1845 — Boston
Post, p.
1,
reprinted
anonymously from the Broadway Journal) (This reprint
noted
by K. Ljungquist, from a paper printed in Emersonian Circles,
1997,
p. 195n24.)
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