Edgar Allan Poe — “Eureka”

Reading copy:

• “Eureka” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “The Universe” — written as a lecture before February 3, 1848, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably slightly reworked and recorded in Text-02) — (Poe first delivered this lecture on February 3, 1848 at the lecture room of the Society Library, at the corner of Broadway and Leonard Streets in New York.)
• Text-02 — Eureka: A Prose Poem — 1848 — Eureka
• Text-03 — Eureka: A Prose Poem — July 1848  — manuscript revisions in Mary Osborn copy of Eureka (Alderman Library, University of Virginia)
• Text-04 — Eureka: A Prose Poem — September or October 1848  — manuscript revisions in Eureka (Sarah H. Whitman’s copy, now in the Lilly Library, Indiana University)
• Text-05 — Eureka: A Prose Poem — early 1849  — manuscript revisions in Eureka (The Nelson-Mabbott copy, now in the University of Texas at Austin)
• Text-06 — Eureka: A Prose Poem — summer 1849  — manuscript revisions in Poe’s own copy of Eureka (The Poe-Griswold-Hurst-Wakeman copy, now in a private collection)

Reprints:

• “Eureka” — 1850 — WORKS — Text R1 (Griswold essentially reprints Text-02, ignoring the revisions in Text-06)
• “Eureka” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:91-195)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “Eureka” — 1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 9: Eureka and Miscellanies, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (9:1-138, and 9:293-315)
• “Eureka” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 16: Marginalia and Eureka, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (16:179-354)
• “Eureka: A Prose Poem” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America), pp. 1257-1359
• Eureka — 2004 — Stuart and Susan F. Levine, eds., Chicago: University of Illinois Press

Instream Comparative Texts:

• None

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• Eureka — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire)
  • Eureka — 1859 — Revue Internationale (Geneve and Paris)  (only 4 installments, incomplete, ending with p. 173 of the text as printed by Griswold in WORKS.)
    • Eureka — Part I — October 1859
    • Eureka — Part II — November 1859
    • Eureka — Part III — December 1859
    • Eureka — Part IV — January 1860
  • Eureka — 1864 — Paris: Michel Lévy frères  (issued about November 25, 1863)

• Benton, Richard P., “Cross-lights on Poe;’s Eureka,” in Eureka: A Prose Poem by Edgar Allan Poe, ed. R. P. Benton, Hartford, Transcendental Books, 1973, pp. i-ii (reprinted in Poe as Literary Cosmologer: Studies on Eureka, a Symposium, ed. Richard P. Benton, Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1975, as a separate section)
• Bierly, Charles E., “Eureka and the Drama of the Self: A Study of the Relationship between Poe’s Cosomology and His Fiction,” Doctoral Disseration, University of Washinbgton, 1957  (abstract: Disseration Abstracts, 1958, 18:228-229)
• Brooks, Curtis M., “The Cosmic God: Science and the Creative Imagination in Eureka,” American Transcendental Quarterly, 1975, 26:60-68  (reprinted in Poe as Literary Cosmologer: Studies on Eureka, a Symposium, ed. Richard P. Benton, Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1975, pp. 60-68)
• Browne, William Hand, “Poe’s Eureka and Some Recent Scientific Speculations,” New Eclectic Magazine, 1869, 5:190-199
• Cantalupo, Barbara, “Eureka: Poe’s Novel Universe,” in A Companion to Poe Studies, ed. Eric W. Carlson, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996, pp. 323-344
• Cantalupo, Barbara, “ ‘Of or Pertaining to a  Higher Power’: Involution in Eureka,” American Transcendental Quarterly, June 1990, 4:81-90
• Cappi, Alberto, “Edgar Allan Poe’s Physical Cosomology,” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astonomical Society, 1994, 35:177-192
• Cappi, Alberto, “Le intuizioni cosmologiche di Edgar Allan Poe,” L‘astronomia, 1997, 176:26
• Conner, Frederick William, “Poe & John Nichol: Notes on a Source of Eureka,” in All These to Teach: Essays in Honor of C. A. Robertson, ed. Robert A. Bryan, et al., Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1949, pp. 190-208
• Conner, Frederick William, “Poe’s Eureka: The Problem of Mechanics,” in Cosmic Optimism: A Study of the Interpretation of Evolution by American Poets from Emerson to Robinson, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1949, pp. 67-91
• Davidson, Edward H., “Eureka,” Poe: A Critical Study, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958, pp. 223-253
• Dayan, Joan, “Eureka: ‘A New World of Philosophy,” Fables of the Mind: An Inquiry into Poe’s Fiction, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987, pp. 19-79
• Drake, William, “The Logic of Survival: Eureka in relation to Poe’s Other Works,” in Poe as Literary Cosmologer: Studies on Eureka, a Symposium, ed. Richard P. Benton, Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1975, pp. 15-22
• Dubois, Réne, Edgar A. Poe et le bouddhisme, Paris: Editions Messene, 1997
• Ducreu-Petit, Maryse, Edgar Allan Poe; ou, Le livre des bords, Lille, France: Presses Universiaires de Lille, 1995.
• Ferris, T., “Minds and Matter,” New Yorker, May 15, 1995, pp. 46-50
• Fox, Hugh B., “Poe and Cosmology: The God-Universe Relationship ina Romantic Context,” Doctoral Disseration, University of Illinois, 1958 (abstract: Disserations Abstracts, 1958, 19:138)
• Gaillard, Dawson, “Poe’s Eureka: The Triumph of the Word,” in Poe as Literary Cosmologer: Studies on Eureka, a Symposium, ed. Richard P. Benton, Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1975, pp. 42-46
• Gallatin, G., “Poetic Bang,” New Scientist, September 1996, 7:50
• Golding, Alan, “Reductive and Expansive Language: Semantic Strategies in Eureka,” Poe Studies, June 1978, 11:1-5  (text)
• Halliburton, David, “The Dialogues and Eureka,” Edgar Allan Poe: A Phenomenological View, Princeton: 1973, pp. 377-412
• Halline, Allan G., “Moral and Religious Concepts in Poe,” Bucknell University Studies, January 1951, 2:126-150
• 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.
• Hoagland, Clayton, “The Universe of Eureka: A Comparison of the Theories of Eddington and Poe,” Southern Literary Messenger, May 1939, 1:307-313
• Hoberg, Perry F., “Poe: Trickster-Cosmologist,” in Poe as Literary Cosmologer: Studies on Eureka, a Symposium, ed. Richard P. Benton, Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1975, pp. 30-37
• Hoffman, Daniel, “The Mind of God, or, ‘What I Here Propound is True,” Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe, Garden City: 1972, pp. 278-299
• Holman, Harriet, “Hog, Bacon, Ram, and Other ’savans’ in Eureka: Notes Toward Decoding Poe’s Encyclopedic Satire,” Poe Newsletter, 1969, 2:49-55  (text)
• Holman, Harriet, “Splitting Poe’s ‘Epicurean Atoms’: Further Speculations on the Literary Satire of Eureka,” Poe Studies, 1972, 5:33-37 (text)
• Hume, Beverly A., “Poe’s Mad Narrator in Eureka,” Essays in Arts and Sciences, 1993, 22:51-65
• Hussey, John P., “Narrative Voice and Classical Rhetoric in Eureka,” in Poe as Literary Cosmologer: Studies on Eureka, a Symposium, ed. Richard P. Benton, Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1975, pp. 37-42
• Jacobs, Robert D., “The Plot of God,” Poe, Journalist and Critic, Baton Rouge: 1969, pp. 402-426
• Ketterer, David, “Empedocles in Eureka: Addenda,” Poe Studies, December 1985, 18:24-25
• Ketterer, David “Protective Irony and ‘The Full Design’ of Eureka,” in Poe as Literary Cosmologer: Studies on Eureka, a Symposium, ed. Richard P. Benton, Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1975, pp. 46-55
• Levine, Stuart and Susan F., eds., Eureka, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004  (Poe’s text, edited and with an introduction, notes and textual variants)
• Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978.
• Maddison, Carol H., “Poe’s Eureka,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Autumn 1960, 2:350-367
• Manning, Susan, “ ‘The plots of God are perfect’: Poe’s Eureka and American Creative Nihilism,” Journal of American Studies, 1989, 23:235-251
• Mazow, Julia A., “The Undivided Consciousness of the Narrator in Eureka,” in Poe as Literary Cosmologer: Studies on Eureka, a Symposium, ed. Richard P. Benton, Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1975, pp. 55-59
• McCarthy, Kevin C., “Unity and Personal Identity in Eureka,” in Poe as Literary Cosmologer: Studies on Eureka, a Symposium, ed. Richard P. Benton, Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1975, pp. 22-26
• McCaslin, Susan, “Poe’s Cosmogonic Poem,” Salzburg Studies in English Literature, 1981, 87:3-45
• Miecznikowski, Cynthia, “End(ings) and Mean(ings) in Pym and Eureka,” Studies in Short Fiction, Winter 1990, 27:55-64
• Nelson, Roland W., “Apparatus for a Definitive Edition of Poe’s Eureka,” Studies in the American Renaissance 1978, ed., Joel Myerson, Boston: Twayne, 1978, pp. 161-205
• Nordstedt, George, “Poe and Einstein,” Open Court, March 1930, 44:173-180
• Osowski, Judith Marie, “Structure and Metastructure in the Universe of Edgar Allan Poe: An Approach to Eureka, Selected Tales, and the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym,” Doctoral Disseration, Washington State University, 1972 (abstract: Disseration Abstracts, 1973, 33:3598-A)
• Pitcher, Edward, “Poe’s Eureka as a Prose Poem,” American Transcendental Quarterly, 1976, 29:61-71
• Pollin, Burton R., “Contemporary Reviews of Eureka: A Checklist,” in Poe as Literary Cosmologer: Studies on Eureka, a Symposium, ed. Richard P. Benton, Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1975, pp. 26-15
• Quinn, Patrick F., “Poe’s Eureka and Emerson’s Nature,” Emerson Society Quarterly, 2nd quarter 1963, pp. 4-7
• Ramakrishna, D. “Poe’s Eureka and Hindu Philosophy,” Emerson Society Quarterly, 2nd quarter 1967, pp. 28-32
• Rans, Geoffrey, “Poe’s Eureka: The Macrocosmic Analogue,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1971, 29:353-365
• Scheick, William, “An Intrinsic Luminosity: Poe’s Use of Platonic and Newtonian Optics,” Southern Literary Journal, Spring 1992, 24:90-105
• Smithline, Arnold, “Eureka: Poe as Transcendentalist,” Emerson Society Quarterly, 2nd quarter 1965, pp. 25-38
• St. Armand, Barton Levi, “ ’seemingly Intuitive Leaps’: Belief and Unbelief in Eureka,” in Poe as Literary Cosmologer: Studies on Eureka, a Symposium, ed. Richard P. Benton, Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1975, pp. 4-15
• Tate, Allen, “The Angelic Imagination: Poe as God,” The Forlorn Demon: Didactic and Critical Essays, Chicago: 1953, pp. 56-78
• Thompson, G. Richard, “Romantic Skepticism, parts IV-V [Eureka],” Poe’s Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973, pp. 187-195
• Umawatari, Nobuaki, “On Eureka,” in Maekawa wa Shynichi Kyoju Kanreki Kinen-ronbunshu, Tokyo, 1968
• Valéry, Paul, “On Poe’s ‘Eureka’,” Variety, translated by Malcom Cowley, New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927, pp. 123-146  (reprinted in The Recognition of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. E. Carlson, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1966, pp. 102-110)
• Van Nostrand, “The Theories of Adam and Eve,” Everyman His Own Poet: American Romantic Gospels, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968, pp. 204-227
• Vines, Lois Davis, “On Poe’s Eureka,” Valéry and Poe: A Literary Legacy, New York: New York University Press, 1992, pp. 157-177
• Virtanen, Reino, “The Irradiations of Eureka: Valéry’s Reflections on Poe’s Cosomology,” Tennessee Studies in Literature, 1962, 7:17-25
• Virtanen Reino, “Poe’s Eureka in France from Baudelaire to Valéry,” Kentucky Romance Quarterly, 1982, 29:223-234
• Wallace, Alfred, Edgar Allan Poe: A Series of Seventeen Letters Concerning Poe’s Scientific Erudition in Eureka and His Authorship of “Leonanine,” New York: Union Square Bookshop,1930  (As it turns out, Poe was not the author of “Leonaine,” a hoax perpetrated by James Whitcomb Riley)
• Welch, Susan, “The Value of Analogical Evidence: Poe’s Eureka in the Context of a Scientific Debate,” Modern Language Studies, 1991, 21:3-15
• Williams, Michael, “Eureka: ‘fondle the phantom of the idea’,” A World of Words, Durham: Duke University Press, 1988, pp. 146-151