Edgar Allan Poe — “To the River —— [Po]”

Reading copy:

• “To the River —— [Po]” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “In an Album. — To the River ——” — about 1828 — “Wilmer” manuscript — (Mabbott text A)
• Text-02 — “To the River ——” — 1829 — ATMP — (Mabbott text B)
• Text-03 — “To the River ——” — August 1839 — Burton’s — (Mabbott text C)
• Text-04 — “To the River ——” — February 25 and March 4, 1843 — Saturday Museum — (Mabbott text D)
  • Text-04a — “To the River [——]” — February 25, 1843 
  • Text-04b — “To the River ——” — March 4, 1843  (reprinted from February 25, 1843)
• Text-05 — “To the River ——” — 1845 — manuscript changes in ATMP in preparation for RAOP — (Mabbott text E)
• Text-06 — “To the River ——” — September 6, 1845 — Broadway Journal — (Mabbott text F)
• Text-07 — “To the River ——” — 1845 — RAOP — (Mabbott text G)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text)

Reprints:

• “To the River ——” — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold merely reprints Text-06  (Mabbott text H)
• “To the River ——” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems  and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:84)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “To the River ——” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:132, and p. 230)
• “To the River ——” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:42, and 10:166-167)
• “To the River —” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (pp. 130, and p. 278)
• “To the River ——” — 1917 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 51-52, and p. 195)
• “To the River ——” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 43, and pp. 206-207)
• “To the River [Po]” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:133-135)
• “To the River ——” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America) (p. 57) (reprints Text-07)

Instream Comparative Texts:

• None

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “A la rivière —” — dated 2009, but available in late 2008 — Poèmes d‘Edgar Allan Poe, Paris: Publibook (translation by Jean Hautepierre)

• 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, “Poe’s ‘To The River’,” Explicator, June 1945, vol. 3
• Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, “ ‘To The River’,” Explicator, April 1945, vol. 3 (a query)
• Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol 1 Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.