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Edgar Allan Poe — “Sonnet — Silence”






Texts and Variant Texts

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

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
  • "Silence, a Sonnet" — December 25, 1839 — manuscript — Text 01  (Mabbott text A)
  • "Silence, a Sonnet" — January 4, 1840 — Saturday Courier — Text 02  (Mabbott text B)
  • "Sonnet — Silence" — February 25, 1843 — Saturday Museum — Text 04  (Mabbott text D)
    • "Sonnet — Silence" — February 25, 1843  (no surviving copies located)
    • "Sonnet — Silence" — March 4, 1843  (reprinted from February 25, 1843)
  • "Sonnet — Silence" — July 26, 1845 — Broadway Journal — Text 05  (Mabbott text E)
  • "Sonnet — Silence" — 1845 — RAOP — Text 06  (Mabbott text F)  (This is Mabbott's copytext)

Reprints:
  • "Silence" — 1850 — WORKS — (Griswold reprints Text 06, trimming the title, but apparently under his own editorial authority)  (Mabbott text G)
  • “Silence” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems  and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:27)
  • “Silence” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:25, and p. 177)
  • “Sonnet — Silence” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:85, and 10:201-202)
  • “Sonnet — Silence” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (p. 35, and pp. 223-224)
  • “Sonnet — Silence” — 1917 —  The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 104-105, and pp. 240-241)
  • “Sonnet — Silence” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 90, and pp. 256-257)
  • “Sonnet — Silence” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:320-323)

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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