Edgar Allan Poe — “The Coliseum”

Reading copy:

• “The Coliseum” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “The Coliseum” — 1833, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
• Text-02 — “The Coliseum” — October 26, 1833 — Baltimore Saturday Visiter — (Mabbott text A)
• Text-03 — “The Coliseum” — 1835 — in “Politian” manuscript — (Mabbott text B)
• Text-04 — “The Coliseum” — August 1835 — Southern Literary Messenger — (Mabbott text C)
• Text-05 — “The Coliseum” — about 1841 — “Herring” manuscript — (Mabbott text D)
• Text-06 — “The Coliseum” — June 12, 1841 — Saturday Evening Post (Philadelphia, PA) — (Mabbott text E)
• Text-07 — “The Coliseum” — 1842 — Poets and Poetry of America (The poem continued to appear in later editions, although it was removed beginning with the 10th edition, of 1850) — (Mabbott text F)
• Text-08 — “The Coliseum” — February 25, 1843 — Saturday Museum — (Mabbott text G)
  • Text-08a — “The Coliseum” — February 25, 1843
  • Text-08b — “The Coliseum” — March 4, 1843  (reprinted from February 25, 1843)
• Text-09 — “The Coliseum” — July 12, 1845 — Broadway Journal — (Mabbott text H)
• Text-10 — “The Coliseum” — 1845 — RAOP — (Mabbott text J)
• Text-11 — “Coliseum” — 1845 — The Poetry of the Sentiments — (Mabbott text K)
• Text-12 — “The Coliseum” — 1845-1849 — manuscript revisions in J. Lorimer Graham copy of RAOP — (Mabbott text L)

Reprints:

• “The Coliseum” — March 18, 1846 — True American (Lexington, KY) (reprinted from RAOP)
• “Ruins” — 1849 — The Poets Offering for 1850 (an excerpt reprinting 8 lines from the poem) (Noted by H&C, p. 129)
• “The Coliseum” — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text 10, applying the one correction from Text 12  (Mabbott text M)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text)
• “The Coliseum” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:14-15)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “The Coliseum” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:26-27, and pp. 177-178)
• “The Coliseum” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:56-57, and 10:191-192)
• “The Coliseum” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (pp. 19-20, and pp. 207-208)
• “The Coliseum” — 1917 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 75-76, and pp. 218-221)
• “The Coliseum” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (pp. 57-58, and pp. 236-239)
• “The Coliseum” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:226-231)
• “The Coliseum” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, ed. Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America) (pp. 72-73) (reprints the text from Works, 1850)

Instream Comparative and Study Texts:

• None

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “Le Colisée” — 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.
• Ljungquist, Kent P., “ ‘The Coliseum‘: A Dialogue on Ruins,” Poe Studies, 1983, 16:32-33
• Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol 1 Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.