Edgar Allan Poe — “May Queen Ode”

Reading copy:

• “May Queen Ode” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “[May Queen Ode]” — about April 1836, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but the only known stanza of this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
• Text-02 — “[Queen of May Ode]” — 1917 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co (p. 164) — (Mabbott text A)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text)  (This poem was first printed in the second edition as it was brought to the attention of J. H. Whitty after the first edition of 1911)

Reprints:

• None.

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “[May Queen Ode]” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 1:Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:302)

Instream Comparative and Study Texts:

• None

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• None.

• 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.