Edgar Allan Poe — “Pinakidia”

Reading copy:

• “Pinakidia” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “Pinakidia” — 1836, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
• Text-02 — “Pinakidia” — August 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger

Reprints:

• “Pinakidia” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:493-507)  (Ingram selects about 70 of the 172 items, omitting the rest)  (Note that Woodberry and Stedman chose not to print any of the “Pinakidia” in their edition of 1894-1895)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “Pinakidia” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (14:38-72)  (Harrison restores the full text of “Pinakidia,” but changes the order of items.)
• “Pinakidia” — 1985 — The Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe; Vol II- The Brevities, New York: Gordian Press, 1985  (2:1-55, 2:55-106, and 2:xi-xv)  (Pollin restores the full text, in correct order, and adds a number of miscellaneous notes from the Southern Literary Messenger as “Supplementary Pinkakia,” 2:424-453, and 2:xxiv-xxv)

Instream Comparative and Study Texts:

• None

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• None

• Adams, Percy, “Poe a Critic of Voltaire,” Modern Language Notes, April 1942, 57:273-275
• Griggs, Earl Leslie, “Five Sources of Poe’s ‘Pinakidia’,” American Literature, May 1929, 1:196-199
• 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.
• Holt, Palmer C., “Poe and H. N. Coleridge’s Greek Classic Poets: ‘Pinakidia,’ ‘Politian’ and ‘Morella’ Sources, American Literature, March 1962, 34:8-30
• Jackson, David K., “Poe Notes: ‘Pinakida’ and ’some Ancient Greek Authors’,” American Literature, November 1933, 5:258-267
• Knowlton, Edgar C., “Poe’s Debt to Father Bouhours,” Poe Newsletter, December 1971, 4:27-29
• Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, “ ‘Antediluvian Antiquties’: A Curiosity of American Literature and a Source of Poe’s,” American Collector, July 1927, 4:124-126
• 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)