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Edgar Allan Poe — “May Queen Ode”






Texts and Variant Texts

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

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
  • "[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 01
  • “[Queen of May Ode]” — 1917 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co (p. 164) — Text 01  (Mabbott text A)  (This is Mabbott's copytext)  (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:
  • “[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)

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.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol 1 Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.



 
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