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Edgar Allan Poe — “A Dream within a Dream”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “A Dream within a Dream” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00)

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings (full text):

  • "Imitation" — 1827, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "Imitation" — 1827 — TAOP — Text 02  (Mabbott text A)  (This is Mabbott's copytext for "Imitation")
  • "To — —" — about 1828 — "Wilmer" manuscript, now lost but text recorded — Text 03  (Mabbott text A1)
  • "To — —" — 1829 — ATMP — Text 04  (Mabbott text C1)  (This is Mabbott's copytext for "To — —")
  • "[To — —]" — 1831 — POEMS (incorporated into "Tamerlane" as section XXIV) — Text 05  (Mabbott text D1)
  • "For Annie" — Early 1849 — "Annie" manuscript — Text 06  (Mabbott text A2)
  • "To —" — about August 1849 — Richmond Examiner proof sheets — Text 08  (Mabbott text C2)

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings (extracts):

  • "To — —"  — December 1829 — Yankee (excerpts only) — (Mabbott text B1)

Reprints:
  • “To —”  — 1830 — Baltimore Minerva and Emerald  (printed as part of a review of ATMP)
  • "A Dream Within a Dream" — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text 07 — (Mabbott text D2)  (This is Mabbott's copytext for "A Dream Within a Dream")
  • “A Dream within a Dream” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems  and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:27-28)
  • “Imitation” — 1884 —  Tamerlane and Other Poems, ed. Richard Herne Shepherd, London: George Redway (p. 49)  (Having long been thought lost, a copy of the original Tamerlane and Other Poems of 1827 was discovered in the British Museum and printed in this "second edition.")
  • “A Dream within a Dream” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:130, and p. 227-229)
  • “A Dream within a Dream” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:16, and 10:150-152)
  • “To —” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (p. 123, and pp. 273-275)
  • “A Dream within a Dream” — 1917 —  The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 26-28, and pp. 161-163)
  • “A Dream within a Dream” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 18, and pp. 180-183)  (In his notes, Stovall reprints the full text of the 1827 "Imitation" and the 1829 "To — —")
  • “Imitation” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:75-76)
  • “To — — ["Should my early life seem"]” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:129-132)
  • “A Dream within a Dream” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:450-452)

Associated Material and Special versions:

  • None













Mabbott prints the three main versions of this poem as separate items, although he notes in the descriptive text that they are related to one another.










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 (Vol 1 Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.





 
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