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Edgar Allan Poe — “The Happiest Day”






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)

Associated Material and Special versions:

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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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