Edgar Allan Poe — “Marginalia”


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Reading and Reference Texts:

Reading copy:

  • “Marginalia” — reading copy

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Historical Texts:

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

 

Reprints:

  • “Original Marginalia by Edgar A. Poe” — September 18, 1874 — Tasmanian Tribune (Hobart Town, Tasmania), vol. X, no. 603, p. 4 (a reprint of twelve items, taken at random. The source is not cited, but they are presumably taken from Griswold's edition of the collected works.)
  • Marginalia” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:347-479) (Ingram restored some items which were not included in the Griswold edition. The selection is not entirely complete, however, as Ingram continued to omit some items which were more fully represented in the form of the criticism in which they originally appeared. In the 1876 version of what had been the Griswold edition, W. J. Widdleton retained the 1850 selection instead of adopting that made by Ingram.)
  • “Marginalia” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. C. J. Richardson, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (9:176-372) (essentially reprints the 1850 text, with additional selections added to entry 178, taken from Broadway Journal of August 9, 1845)
  • “Poe's Marginalia” — 1924 — edited, with an introduction, by Isaac Goldberg, Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1924. (56 pages, with 8 pages of advertisements, No. 729. excerpts only)
  • “Selections from Poe's Marginalia” — 1930 — Pittsburgh, PA: Laboratory Press. (22 pages, hardback, with a paper dustjacket. Limited to 250 copies. Excerpts only. Stated as having been produced “as an Exercise in Book-design, by the students at the Laboratory Press, Carnegie Institute of Technology ... to commemorate the establishment of the Press.”)

 

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

  • Marginalia” — 1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Literary Criticism, eds. E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (7:209-349, and 7:354-355)
  • Marginalia” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 16: Marginalia and Eureka, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (16:1-178) (Harrison reprints the original articles rather than the selections, but inexplicably omits the installments of April 1846, July 1846 and March 1848.)
  • “Marginalia [excerpts]” — 1909 — Selections from the Critical Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Frederick C. Prescott, New York: Henry Holt (pp. 257-307 and 346-348) (selected excerpts deal with critical theory)
  • Marginalia — 1981 — Edgar Allan Poe: Marginalia, ed. J. C. Miller, Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia, 1981 (the first complete collection of the original marginalia items, but without annotations)
  • Marginalia [Preface]” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales & Sketches II, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (3:1112-1118)
  • Marginalia” — 1985 — The Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe; Vol II- The Brevities, New York: Gordian Press, 1985  (2:508-551, and 1:xv-xxiv)  (Pollin restores the original material and order for Marginalia” and also includes items printed in Griswold's edition as “Supplemental Marginalia,” 2:508-551, and 2:xxix-xxxiii)
  • “Marginalia” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and Reviews, ed. G. R. Thompson, New York: Library of America (pp. 1309-1472)

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Comparative and Study Texts:

Instream Comparative and Study Texts:

  • None

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Associated Material and Special Versions:

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

  • “Marginalia” — 1882 — Contes Grotesques par Edgar Poe, Paris: Paul Ollendorff  (French translation by Émile Hennequin)
  • “Marginalia” — 1908 — Bibliothèque des poètes fraçais et étrangers: Edgar-A. Poë, Paris: Louis-Michaud (French translation by Victor Orban)
  • [An Index of Marginalia Printings, 1844-1902”]

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Bibliography:

  • Corcella, Aldo, “A Source for Poe's “Marginalia’,” Edgar Allan Poe Review, vol. 18, no. 2, Autumn 2017, 18:193-208 (proposes a source for 14 items, primarily the British Critic for December 1794)
  • Hatvary, George Egon, “Poe's Borrowings from H. B. Wallace,” American Literature, 1966, 38:365-372
  • 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.
  • O‘Neill, Edward H., “The Poe-Griswold Texts of ‘Marginalia’,” American Literature, November 1943, 15:238-250
  • Pollin, Burton R., ed., The Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe; Vol II- The Brevities (Including “Marginalia,” “Pinakidia,” “Fifty Suggestions,” and “A Chapter of Suggestions,” New York: Gordian Press, 1985)
  • Savoye, Jeffrey A., “A Lost Roll of ‘Marginalia’,” The Edgar Allan Poe Review, Fall 2002, vol. III, no. 2, pp. 52-72
  • Savoye, Jeffrey A., “Wrapping ‘Marginalia’,” The Edgar Allan Poe Review, Fall 2008, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 100. (Notes subtitles for individual entries in two installments of “Marginalia” from the Southern Literary Messenger given in the table of contents from original paper wrappers, but not included in the index or previously noticed.)

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