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Edgar Allan Poe — “The Elk”







Texts and Variant Texts

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

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

  • “Morning on the Wissahiccon” — spring 1843, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • Morning on the Wissahiccon” — summer 1843 — The Opal: A Pure Gift for the Holy Days (for 1844) — Text 02  (Mabbott text A)  (This is Mabbott's copytext)
  • “The Elk” — title change in a letter from Poe to J. R. Lowell, May 28, 1844 — Text 03

Reprints:

  • “The Elk” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (2:77-83) — (Mabbott text B, although no variants are given as it is technically a reprint)
  • “The Elk” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 5: Tales IV, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (5:156-162, and 5:322)  (Harrison's note comments that "This piece was not included in the Griswold collection, but is mentioned in a note to J. R. Lowell's Biography of Poe in Graham's Magazine for February, 1845." Lowell's "Biography of Poe" was revised and reprinted in volume I of "the Griswold collection.")
  • “Morning on the Wissahiccon” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Tales & Sketches, 1843-1849, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (3:860-867)

Associated Material and Special versions:
  • "L'Elan (Matinée sur le Wissahiccon)" — (French translation by M. D. Calvocoressi)
    • "L'Elan (Matinée sur le Wissahiccon)" — February 16, 1911 — Le Mercure de France (Paris)
    • "L'Elan (Matinée sur le Wissahiccon)" — 1914 — Edgar Poe: Histories étranges et Merrveilleuses, Paris: Mercure de France













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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 (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978.





 
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