Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848) (Hurst-Wakeman copy, with annotations), title page and table of contents


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Title page:

Eureka (1848) - title page

 

EUREKA:

 

A PROSE POEM.

 

BY

EDGAR A. POE.

 

NEW-YORK:
GEO. P. PUTNAM,
OF LATE FIRM OF “WILEY & PUTNAM,”
155 BROADWAY.

MDCCCXLVIII.

 



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Table of Contents

CONTENTS

                             PAGE
• [Dedication    iii]
• [Preface    v]
• [Section 01    7]
• [Section 02    22]
• [Section 03    37]
• [Section 04    52]
• [Section 05    63]
• [Section 06    81]
• [Section 07    95]
• [Section 08    112]
• [Section 09    128]


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Notes:

In the original book, Poe's main text runs as a single section, with no divisions. Here, we have broken it into smaller sections for the sake of improving the loading of the pages. There is also no table of contents in the original. One has been created here merely for purposes of convenience.

On the front flyleaf of this copy is the signature of Rufus Wilmot Griswold, followed by a note that the book was: “Poe's Private copy of Eureka.” Poe's annotations begin after the Preface. This copy also bears the very simple bookplate of Stephen H. Wakeman, giving his name only.

The copyright information, on the back of the title page, reads:

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848,
BY EDGAR A. POE,
In the Clerk's Office of the Distict Court for the Southern District of New-York

At the bottom left corner of the copygright page, the printer is identified as “LEAVITT, TROW & CO. Prs.,” at “33 Ann-street.”

The advertisement, bound in the back of the book with numerous other ads, reads simply: “Poe. — Eureka, A Prose Poem: Or the Physical and Metaphysical Universe. By Edgar A. Poe, Esq. Handsomely printed. 12mo cloth, 75 cents.”

Among the many minor changes made by Poe in this copy, he generally changes “upon” to “on” and “irradiation” to “radiation.” He also extends the use of the phrase “the Universe of Stars” in places that previously referred only to “the Universe.” In addition, Poe makes numerous changes in capitalization of individual words, both for consistency and for emphasis.


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