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Texts and Variant Texts
Reading copy:
- “The Happiest Day” —
reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00)
Manuscripts and
Authorized
Printings:
- "[Untitled]" — 1827, no original
manuscript or
fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded
in Text 02) — Text 01
- "[Untitled]"
— 1827 — TAOP
— Text 02 (Mabbott text A) (This is Mabbott's copytext)
- "(Original)"
— September 15, 1827 — North
American
— Text 03 (Mabbott text B)
Reprints:
This brief poem was never printed or reprinted during
Poe's
lifetime. This poem has been included, however, in several collections
of Poe's works, for which a few prominent examples will be
sufficient
- “[Untitled]” —
1884
— Tamerlane and Other Poems, ed. Richard Herne Shepherd,
London: George Redway (pp. 53-54) (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.")
- “The Happiest Day, the Happiest Hour” —
1894-1895
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E.
Woodberry and E. C. Stedman,
Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:121, and p. 224)
- “The Happiest Day, the Happiest Hour” — 1902 — The
Complete Works of
Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y.
Crowell (10:20, and 10:154-155)
- “The Happiest Day, the Happiest Hour” — 1911 — The
Complete Poems
of
Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton
Mifflin Co. (p. 127,
and p. 276)
- “The Happiest Day, the Happiest Hour” —
1917
— The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell,
Boston: Ginn and Company (p. 31, and pp. 166-167)
- “The Happiest Day — The Happiest Hour” —
1965
— The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall,
Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 22, and pp.
185-186)
- “The Happiest Day” —
1969 — The Collected Works of
Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O.
Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
(1:80-82)
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