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Edgar Allan Poe — “Romance”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “Romance” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00)

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings (full text):

  • “Preface” — 1829, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "Preface"  — 1829 — ATMP — Text 02  (Mabbott text A)
  • "Introduction"  — 1831 — POEMS — Text 03  (Mabbott text C)  (This is Mabbott's copytext for this early version)
  • "[Untitled]"  — February 25 and March 4, 1843 — Saturday Museum — Text 04  (Mabbott text D)
    • "[Untitled]"  — February 25, 1843 (no surviving copies located)
    • "[Untitled]" — March 4, 1843 (from February 25, 1843)
  • "Romance" — 1845 — manuscript changes in ATMP in preparation for RAOP) — Text 05  (Mabbott text E)
  • "Romance" — August 30, 1845 — Broadway Journal — Text 06  (Mabbott text F)
  • "Romance"  — 1845 — RAOP — Text 07  (Mabbott text G)  (This is Mabbott's copytext for the final version)

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings (extracts):
  • "Preface"  — December 29, 1829 — lines 11-15 only, manuscript letter — (Mabbott text B)

Reprints:

  • "Romance" — September 3, 1845 — Boston Post, p. 1, reprinted anonymously from the Broadway Journal)  (This reprint noted by K. Ljungquist, from a paper printed in Emersonian Circles, 1997, p. 195 n. 24.)
  • "Romance"  — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold merely reprints Text 07  (Mabbott text H)
  • "[Untitled]" — April 26, 1850 — lines 11-15, printed from text 03, Portland Daily Advertiser) —  (Mabbott text J)
  • “Romance” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems  and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:85-86)
  • “Romance” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:135, and pp. 231-234)
  • “Romance” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:40, and 10:163-165)
  • “Romance” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (p. 116, and pp. 268-270)
  • “Romance” — 1917 —  The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 49-50, and pp. 192-193)
  • “Romance” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 41, and pp. 202-205)
  • “Romance” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:127-129)
  • “Introduction” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:156-159)

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.
  • Lavin, Audrey, "A Birder's Re-Reading of Poe's 'Romance'," University of Mississippi Studies in English, 1991, 9:199-204
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol 1 Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.
  • Rein, David, "Poe's Introduction," Explicator, September 1961, vol. 20, item 35





 
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