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Texts and Variant Texts
Reading copy:
- “Fanny” —
reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00)
Manuscripts and
Authorized
Printings:
- "Fanny" — 1833, no original
manuscript or
fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded
in Text 02) — Text 01
- "Fanny" — May 18,
1833
— Baltimore Saturday Visiter
— Text 02 (Mabbott text A) (This is Mabbott's copytext)
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
- "Fanny" — May 1918 — in John C. French, "Poe and the
Baltimore Saturday Visiter," Modern Language Notes,
33:266. (J. C. French discovered the poem in 1917, after examining a
newly-surfaced file of the Visiter for 1833, which is now in
the Maryland Historical Society. Although the 1917 edition of Poe's Poems
edited by Killis Campbell includes "Serenade," another of the poems
discovered by French, it does not include this poem. This omission is
presumably because the discovery of "Serenade," which was signed by Poe
and thus immediately apparent to French, was printed in both the Johns
Hopkins News-Letter and the Dial in January of 1918,
and some preliminary form of the article was available to Campbell
early enough to be included, while the other poems, signed as by
"Tamerlane," were first printed in the later article in Modern
Language Notes. Rather confusingly, Campbell's notes, p. 298,
mention this later article, but clearly only in anticipation. Although,
no date appears on the title page of Campbell's edition, the copyright
is 1917, and a copy was deposited in the Library of Congress on
September 13, 1917. In his article on "The Poe Canon," Campbell
acknowledges these other poems as "perhaps by Poe.")
- "Fanny" — 1918 — The Complete
Poems of
Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co
(second edition, p.
167)
- “Fanny” —
1965
— The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd
Stovall,
Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 143, and p.
298)
(Stovall notes: "Though there is a strong probability that the poems
were written by Poe, it seems wise, in the absence of proof, to place
them in the category of poems attributed to his authorship," p. 297.)
- “Fanny” —
1969 — The Collected Works of
Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O.
Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
(1:225-226)
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