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Texts and Variant Texts Reading copy: “The Philosophy of Composition” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00) Manuscripts and Authorized Printings: "The Philosophy of Composition" — 1846, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01 "The Philosophy of Composition" — April 1846 — Graham's — Text 02 Reprints: "The Philosophy of Composition" — 1850 — Works — Griswold reprints Text 02 "[The Philosophy of Composition]" — February 16, 1850 — New England Washingtonian, Boston, MA  (reprints 6 paragraphs) "The Philosophy of Composition" — September 21, 1850 — The New York Tribune "The Philosophy of Composition" — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:266-278) "The Philosophy of Composition" — 1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 6: Literary Criticism, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (6:31-46, and 6:323) "The Philosophy of Composition" — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (14:193-208) “The Philosophy of Composition” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and Reviews, ed. G. R. Thompson, New York: Library of America (pp. 13-25) Associated Material and Special versions: “La génèse d'un poème” — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire) “Méthode de composition” — April 20, 1859 — Revue française “La génèse d'un poème” — 1865 — Histoires grotesques et sérieuses, Paris: Michel Lévy frères "[The Philosophy of Composition]" — 1862 — Lieder und Balladenbuch Americanischer und Englischer Dichter (Hamburg) (German translation by Adolf Strodtmann, noted by Ingram, The Raven, with Literary and Historical Commentary, London: George Redway, 1885, p. 72.) "[The Philosophy of Composition]" — 1926 — Trois Manifestes, Paris: Simon Kra (French translation by René Lalou)

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