Edgar Allan Poe — “Politian”

Reading copy:

• “Politian” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “Politian” — 1835 — “Politian” Manuscript — (Mabbott text A)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text for scenes I, II, V, VIII, X, and XI)
• Text-02 — “Scenes from an Unpublished Drama” — December 1835 and January 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger — (Mabbott text B)
  • “Scenes from an unpublished Drama” — [scenes IV, VI and VII] — December 1835
  • “Scenes from an unpublished Drama” — [scenes III and IX] — January 1836
• Text-03 — [“Scene from Politian”] — March 29, 1845 — lines from scene IV, quoted in “Imitation — Plagiarism”— Broadway Journal — (Mabbott text C)
• Text-04 — “Scenes from ‘Politian’” — 1845 — [scenes III, IV, VI, VII and IX] — RAOP — (Mabbott text D)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text for scenes III, VI, VII, and IX)
• Text-05 — “Scenes from ‘Politian’” — 1846-1849 — [scene IV], very minor manuscript revisions to the directions at the beginning of the scene III in Graham copy of RAOP-JLG — (Mabbott text E)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text for scene IV)

Reprints:

• “Scenes from ‘Politian’” — 1850 — scenes III, IV, VI, VII and IX — WORKS — Griswold merely reprints Text-04  (Mabbott text F)
• [“Scene from Politian”] (lines from scene IV, quoted in “Mr. Longfellow and Other Plagiarists”) — 1850— WORKS — Griswold merely reprints Text-03 (Mabbott text G)
• “Scenes from ‘Politian’ ” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems  and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:36-52)  (Ingram reprints Text-03)
• [“Scenes from Politian”] — November 1875 — in “Poe’s ‘Politian‘” by John H. Ingram, two printings of the same article: — (Mabbott text H)
  • [“Scenes from Politian”] — November 1875 — Southern Magazine (10:588-594)
  • [“Scenes from Politian”] — November 1875 — London Magazine of Light Literature
• “Politian” — 1888 — The Poetical Works of Edgar A. Poe, London and New York, edited by John H. Ingram — (Mabbott text J)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “Scenes from ‘Politian’ ” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:49-74, and pp. 187-188)  (this edition reprints the same scenes included in RAOP)
• “Scenes from ‘Politian’ ” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:59-79, and 10:194-197)  (this edition reprints the same scenes included in RAOP)
• “Scenes from ‘Politian’ ” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (pp. 40-59, and pp. 226-230)
• [“Transcript of a scene from ‘Politian‘”] — Nov.-Dec. 1912 — The Autograph (features a somewhat innacurate transcript of scene XI) — (Mabbott text L)
• “Scenes from ‘Politian’ ” — about May 1917 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (pp. 40-59, and pp. 258-262, with additional material pp. 324-327) (second edition)  (This version adds scene XI from the manuscript) — (Mabbott text M)
• “Scenes from ‘Politian’ ” — 1917 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 80-100, and pp. 227-233)
• “Politian” — 1923, text “N” — Politian  (This version was edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott) — (Mabbott text N)
• “Politian” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (pp. 63-84, and pp. 245-251) (This version was edited by Floyd Stovall, and sequences the scenes somewhat differently than does Mabbott) — (Mabbott text P)
• “Politian” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:241-298)  (This version was edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott, relying on the various parts to create the full text)
• “Scenes from ‘Politian’ ” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America) (pp. 107-122) (reprints Text-04)

Instream Comparative Texts:

• None

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “Scenes de Politian” — 1908 — Bibliothèque des poètes fraçais et étrangers: Edgar-A. Poë, Paris: Louis-Michaud (French translation by Victor Orban)

• 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.