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Texts and Variant Texts
Reading copy:
- “The Poetic Principle” —
reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00)
Manuscripts and
Authorized
Printings:
- "The Poetic Principle" — written before
December 20,
1848
— manuscript, apparently lost — Text 01 (Poe first delivered the
lecture on
December
20, 1848 for the Franklin Lyceum at Howard's Hall in Providence, Rhode
Island. This version was stolen from Poe's valise in Philadelphia
sometime
June 30 - July 7, 1849, along with the original manuscript of his
lecture
on "American Poetry.")
- "The Poetic Principle" — written before August 17,
1849 — having lost the original
manuscript,
Poe
rewrote
it for his lectures in Virginia (This manuscript is also apparently
lost, but presumably recorded in Texts 03-05) — Text 02 (Poe
delivered this version of the lecture in
Richmond on August 17, 1849 at the Exchange Concert Rooms in Richmond,
Virginia; and September 14, 1849 in Norfolk, Virginia. The manuscript
itself
appears to have been among the few items found in his trunk after his
death.
In a letter of July 29, 1850, Bayard Taylor, acting for Griswold,
offered
to sell the manuscript to George Graham for $50 for the benefit of Mrs.
Clemm. Graham apparently declined, and it seems instead to have been
purchased
for publication by John Sartain.) (Poe apparently refers to writing
this
lecture in the postscript of his letter of November 26, 1848 to Sarah
Helen
Whitman.)
- "The Poetic Principle" — October 1850 — Sartain's
Union Magazine (issued about September 16, 1850. The text is
noted as "from the unpublished manuscript.") — Text 04
Reprints:
- "Lecture on the Poetic Principle by the Late
Edgar A.
Poe" — October
8, 1850 — The Semi-Weekly Examiner (Richmond, VA) (Reprinted
from Sartain's
Union Magazine. Printed on page 1, beginning in column 6.)
- "The Poetic Principle" — 1875 — The Works of
Edgar
Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black
(3:197-219)
- "The Poetic Principle" — April 17, 1881 — The
Bloomington Bulletin
(Illinois) (Vol. I, no. 60, the Sunday Edition, quotes Poe's full
essay
on the full front page, continuing on page three, without any
explanation
other than "Lecture by Edgar A. Poe." Presumably, the small paper
needed
a considerable amount of filler and Poe's article served this purpose
admirably,
while also lending a sense of literary class.)
- "The Poetic Principle" — 1888
— Library of American Literature, New York: Charles L. Webster
& Company (reprinted from the 1850 Works)
- "The Poetic Principle" — 1895 — The Works of
Edgar
Allan Poe, vol. 6: Literary Criticism, ed. G. E.
Woodberry and E. C. Stedman,
Chicago: Stone and Kimball (6:3-30, and 6:323)
- "The Poetic Principle" — 1902 — The Complete
Works
of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell
(14:266-292)
- “The Poetic Principle” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe:
Essays and Reviews, ed. G. R. Thompson, New York: Library of
America (pp. 71-94) (reprinted from Sartain's Magazine)
Associated Material and Special versions:
- "Du principe poétique" — 1887 — Edgar
Poë: Derniers Contes,
Paris: Albert Savine (French translation by
Félix Rabbe)
- "Le principe poétique" — 1908 — Bibliothèque
des poètes fraçais et étrangers: Edgar-A.
Poë, Paris: Louis-Michaud (French translation by Victor Orban)
- "Du principe poétique" — 1926 — Trois
Manifestes, Paris: Simon Kra (French translation by René
Lalou)
- Le principe de la Poésie — 1945 —
Paris:
Editions du Myrte (French translation and notes by Charles Bellanger)
Forgeries:
- A manuscript fragment listed as a fake by the
famous forger
Joseph
Cosey
in American Books Current (1968-1969): "MS forgery of a Poe
portion
of a lecture, 'Poetic Principle,' dated 9 Dec 1847. 2 pp (joined
together),
5 by 14 inches. hn 33 (177) $40" (p. 1421)
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