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Texts and Variant Texts
Reading copy:
- “Lenore” —
reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00)
Manuscripts and
Authorized
Printings (full text):
- "A Pæan" — 1831, no original
manuscript or
fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded
in Text 02) — Text 01
- "A Pæan" —
1831 — POEMS
— Text 02 (Mabbott text A)
- "A Pæan" —
January 1836 — Southern
Literary
Messenger — Text 03 (Mabbott text B) (This is Mabbott's
copytext for "A Paean," which he prints as a separate poem)
- "Lenore" —
February
1843 — Pioneer
(Printed in Boston and also Philadelphia) — Text 04 (Mabbott text
A1) (This is Mabbott's copytext for the Pindaric version)
- "Lenore" — February 25 and March 4, 1843 — Saturday
Museum — Text 05 (Mabbott text B1)
- "Lenore" — February 25, 1843 (no
surviving
copies located)
- "Lenore" — March
4, 1843 (reprinted from
February
25, 1843)
- "Lenore" — about October 1844 — uncertain periodical,
possibly the
New York Sunday Times (Text reprinted in the Jackson
Advocate and the Evening Mirror in 1844, see
reprints, below) — Text 06 (Mabbott text C1)
- "Lenore"
— February
1845 — Graham's
(printed as part of J. R. Lowell's article on Poe) — Text 07
(Mabbott text D1)
- "Lenore" — August
16, 1845 — Broadway
Journal — Text 08 (Mabbott text E1)
- "Lenore" — 1845 — RAOP
— Text 09 (Mabbott text F1)
- "Lenore" — late
1849 — Poets and
Poetry of
America
(10th
edition, dated 1850) — Text 10 (Mabbott text G1)
- "Lenore" — about
August
1849 —
manuscript revisions in J.
Lorimer
Graham copy of RAOP — Text 11 (Mabbott text J1)
- "Lenore"
— September 18,
1849 — Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser — Text 12
(Mabbott text K1) (This is Mabbott's copytext for the Long-lines
version)
- "Lenore"
— about September
1849 — Richmond Examiner proof sheet — Text 13 (Whitty
states that this text matches Text 11, but "with slight punctuation
changes" which he does not record [Poems, 1911, p. 213])
Manuscripts and
Authorized
Printings (excerpts):
- "Lenore"
— May 24, 1845 — excerpt
only, 2 lines, Broadway
Journal
- "Lenore"
— May
(?)
1849 (lines 20-26) — letter to R. W. Griswold — (Mabbott
text H1)
- "[Lenore]" —
about June 1849 — lines 10-12 only,
"Stedman"
manuscript (These lines are quoted in an article about
H. B. Hirst)
- "[Lenore]"
— about June 1849 — lines 10-12 only,
"Griswold"
manuscript (These lines are quoted in an article about
H. B. Hirst)
Reprints (as "A Paean"):
- “A Pæan” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of
Edgar Allan Poe, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (pp.
209-211)
- “A Pæan” —
1917
— The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell,
Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 68-72, and pp. 214-217)
- “A Pæan” —
1969 — The Collected Works of
Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O.
Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
(1:204-207)
Reprints (as "Lenore"):
- "[Lenore]" — before November 28, 1844 — Jackson
Advocate
(Tennesee)
- "[Lenore]"
— November
28, 1844 — Evening
Mirror (New York)
- "Lenore" — January 21, 1845 — Evening
Mirror
(New
York)
(Included
as part of a reprint of J. R. Lowell's article on Poe from Graham's
Magazine.)
- "Lenore" — early September 1845 — Chambersburg
Times
(Pennsylvania)
(An unathorized reprint criticized by Poe in the Broadway Journal
for September 13, 1845)
- "Dirge [Lenore]" — September 13, 1848 — Oquawka
Spectator
- "[Lenore]" — October 17, 1849 — Louisville
Daily
Journal
(Louisville, KY) (only a few stanzas)
- "Lenore" — 1850 — WORKS
— Griswold prints Text 14 (Mabbott text L1)
- "[Lenore]"
— 1850 —
lines
10-12 only in article about H. B. Hirst, WORKS
- "Lenore" — November 2, 1850 — Boston Daily
Times
(Boston, MA)
- "Lenore" — 1856 — Cyclopedia of American
Literature,
New
York:
Charles Scribner
- “Lenore” — 1875 — The Works of
Edgar
Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram,
Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black
(3:13-14)
- “Lenore” —
1894-1895
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E.
Woodberry and E. C. Stedman,
Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:17-18, and pp. 166-170) (The full
text of "A Pæan" is given in the notes)
- “Lenore” — 1902 — The Complete Works
of
Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y.
Crowell (10:53-54, and 10:182-187)
- “Lenore” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of
Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton
Mifflin Co. (pp.
21-22, and pp. 209-214)
- “Lenore” —
1917
— The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell,
Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 68-72, and pp. 214-217)
- “Lenore” —
1965
— The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall,
Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 56, and pp.
228-236) (In his notes, Stovall gives the full texts of the 1843
"Lenore" and the 1831 "A Paean")
- “Lenore” —
1969 — The Collected Works of
Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O.
Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
(1:330-339) (Mabbott gives two texts, one for the Pindaric
version, and one for the Long-line version)
Associated Material and Special versions:
- "Lenore" — 1864 — Der Rabe, die Glocken, Lenore,
Philadelphia (German translation)
- "Lenore" — 1960 — a reading by Nelson Olmsted on The
Raven: Poems and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, issued on the Vanguard
label (VRS-9046, rereleased as VSD-32)
- "Lenore" — dated 2009, but available in late 2008 — Poèmes
d'Edgar Allan Poe, Paris:
Publibook (translation by Jean Hautepierre)
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