Edgar Allan Poe — “Oh, Tempora! Oh, Mores!”

Reading copy:

• “Oh, Tempora! Oh, Mores!” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “O, Tempora! O, Mores!” — about 1825?, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in the reprints in Southern Opinion and the No Name Magazine, below) — (Mabbott text A)

Reprints:

• “O, Tempora! O, Mores!” — about 1868 — transcript — (Mabbott text B)  (Mabbott notes this as “possibly existing, but now inaccessible.” This transcript was used for the printing in Southern Opinon.)
• “O, Tempora! O, Mores!” — March 7, 1868 — Southern Opinion — (Mabbott text C)
• “Oh, Tempora! Oh, Mores!” — October 1889 — No Name Magazine — (Mabbott text D)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “Oh Tempora! Oh Mores!” — 1911, The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, pp. 161-165  (reprinted from No Name Magazine)
• “O, Tempora! O, Mores!” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (0p. 137-140, and pp. 294-296)
• “Oh, Tempora! Oh, Mores!” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:9-13)
• “O, Tempora! O, Mores!” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America) (pp. 21-23) (reprints the text from Southern Opinion, 1868)

Instream Comparative Texts:

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Plain Text Files for Juxta:

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Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• Campbell, Killis, “Introduction — II. The Canon of Poe’s Poems,” The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Boston: Ginn and Co, 1917, pp. xxvii (especially footnote 3)
• 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.
• Hubbell, Hay B., “‘O, Tempora! O, Mores!’ A Juvenile Poem by Edgar Allan Poe,” Elizabethan Studies and Other Essays in Honor of George F. Reynolds, University of Colorado Studies, series B, Studies in the Humanities, vol. 2, no. 4 pp. 314-321.
• 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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