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Edgar Allan Poe — “Hymn”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “Hymn” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00)

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

  • "[Catholic Hymn]" — about 1833 — in "Morella," manuscript — Text 01  (Mabbott text A)
  • "[Catholic Hymn]" — April 1835 — in "Morella," Southern Literary Messenger — Text 02  (Mabbott text B)
  • "[Catholic Hymn]" — late 1839 — in "Morella," TGA (1840) — Text 03  (Mabbott text D) (Although the imprint date is 1840, this book was available by early December 1839. Although it appeared after Text 04, it presumably represents a slightly earlier form.)
  • "[Catholic Hymn]" — November 1839 — in "Morella," Burton's — Text 04  (Mabbott text C)
  • "[Catholic Hymn]" — 1842 — in "Morella," TGA-PP — Text 05  (Mabbott text E)
  • "Catholic Hymn" — August 16, 1845 — Broadway Journal — Text 06  (Mabbott text F)
  • "Hymn" — 1845 — RAOP, with manuscript title change — Text 08  (Mabbott text H)

Reprints:

  • "Hymn" — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text 07, but with the title change in Text 08  (Mabbott text J)
  • “Hymn” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:28, and p. 178)
  • “Hymn” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:58, and 10:193-194)
  • “Hymn” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (p. 23, and pp. 214-215)
  • “Hymn” — 1917 —  The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 78-79, and pp. 222-224)
  • “Hymn” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 60, and pp. 242-243)
  • “Hymn” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:216-218)

Associated Material and Special versions:

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Bibliography:
  • 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.





 
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