Edgar Allan Poe — “Alone” (“From childhood’s hour . . .”)

Reading copy:

• “Alone” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “Original [Alone]” — about 1829 — manuscript — (Mabbott text A, and Mabbott’s copy-text)

Reprints:

• “Alone” — September 1875 — Scribner’s Monthly Magazine (10:608) — (Mabbott text B) (The poem was printed as a facimile, but with the title and a date added. These adjustments, by Eugene L. Dider, caused some concern about the authenticity of the poem, concerns which have long since been dismissed.)
• “Alone” — 1876 — Works (Ingram) (This is the American edition, published by W. J. Widdleton.)
• “Alone” — 1877 — Life and Poems, W. J. Widdleton (with a new memoir by E. L Didier) — (Mabbott text C)
• “Alone” — 1926 — in Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe, by Hervey Allen, New York: George H. Doran Co, facsimile of the original MS, frontispiece (as given by Didier from Scribner’s)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “Alone” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:138, and p. 237)
• “Alone” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York, T. Y. Crowell, 1902 (Harrison includes it in an appendix titled “Poems Attributed to Poe,” 7:227, with the text reprinted from the facsimile in Scribner’s)
• “From an Album (Alone)” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co (p. 135, and pp. 282-283)
• “Alone” — 1917 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (p. 139, and p. 299)
• “Alone” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 129, and p. 290)
• “Alone” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe - vol. I: Poems, ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:145-147)

Instream Comparative Texts:

• None

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “Seul” — dated 2009, but available in late 2008 — Poèmes d‘Edgar Allan Poe, Paris: Publibook (translation by Jean Hautepierre)

• Bandy, William T., “Poe’s ‘Alone’: The First Printing,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 1976, 70:405-406
• Cauthen, Irby B., Jr., “Poe’s ‘Alone’: Its Background, Source, and Manuscript,” Studies in Bibliography, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1950, 3:284-291
• 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 (Vol 1 Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.