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Edgar Allan Poe — “The Haunted Palace”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “The Haunted Palace” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00)

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

  • "The Haunted Palace" — 1839, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "The Haunted Palace" — September 1839 — in "The Fall of the House of Usher," Burton's — Text 03  (Mabbott text B)
  • "The Haunted Palace" — 1840 — in "The Fall of the House of Usher," Tales of G & A — Text 04  (Mabbott text C)
  • "The Haunted Palace" — 1842 — in "The Fall of the House of Usher," manuscript changes in Phantasy Pieces — Text 05  (Mabbott text D)
  • "The Haunted Palace" — April 18, 1842 — Poets and Poetry of America (The poem continued to appear in later editions) — Text 06  (Mabbott text E)
  • "The Haunted Palace" — February 25 - March 4, 1843 — Saturday Museum — Text 07  (Mabbott text F)
    • "The Haunted Palace" — February 25, 1843 (no surviving copies located)
    • "The Haunted Palace" — March 4, 1843 (reprinted from February 25, 1843)
  • "The Haunted Palace" — February 1845 — Graham's, printed as part of Lowell's article on Poe — Text 08  (Mabbott text G)
  • "The Haunted Palace" — 1845 — in "The Fall of the House of Usher," Tales — Text 09  (Mabbott text H)
  • "The Haunted Palace" — 1849 — manuscript revision in J. L. Graham copy of RAOP — Text 11  (Mabbott text M)
  • "The Haunted Palace" — 1849 — manuscript sent to R. W. Griswold about 1848 — Text 12  (Mabbott text N)  (This is Mabbott's copytext for lines 1-44, the remaining lines are from text R)
  • "The Haunted Palace" — about September 1849 — Richmond Examiner proof sheets — Text 13  (Mabbott text P)

Reprints:

  • "The Haunted Palace" — January 21, 1845 — Evening Mirror (New York)
  • "The Haunted Palace" — January 24, 1845 — New-York Daily Tribune
  • "The Haunted Palace" — February 1, 1845 — New-York Weekly Tribune
  • "The Haunted Palace" — February 1, 1845 — New World  (The headnote reads: "The following exquisite Poem, from the pen of Edgar A. Poe, is new to us. We can hardly call to mind in the whole compass of American Poetry, a picture of more intense and glowing Ideality. It portrays with admirable power and pathos, a noble mind given over to wreck and desolation.")
  • "The Haunted Palace" — February 12, 1845 — reprint in the Yankee Blade (Waterville, ME) (noted by Ljungquist)
  • "[The Haunted Palace]" — May 24, 1845, excerpt of begining 12 lines — Broadway Journal  (This is one of several examples Poe quotes in his review of William Lord's Poems.)
  • "The Haunted Palace" — August 9, 1845 — Baltimore Saturday Visiter  (reprinted as part of a letter by Edward H. Docwra)
  • "The Haunted Palace" — May 23, 1846 — Littel's Living Age
  • "The Haunted Palace" — March 5, 1847  — Semi-Weekly Courier and New York Enquirer (H&C, p. 249)
  • "The Haunted Palace" — 1847 — in "The Fall of the House of Usher," Prose Writers of America  (Mabbott text K)
  • "The Haunted Palace" — 1849 — The Gift-Leaves of American Poetry — this is a reprint of Text 06  (Mabbott text L) (H&C, p. 126)
  • "The Haunted Palace" — 1850 — in "The Fall of the House of Usher," WORKS — Griswold reprints Text 09  (Mabbott text Q)
  • "The Haunted Palace" — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text 10, but does include one change from Text 13  (Mabbott text R)  (This is Mabbott's copytext for lines 45-52, these lines from the manuscript of text N having been lost)
  • "The Haunted Palace" — March, 1850 — American Whig Review (reprinted in a review)
  • "The Haunted Palace" — September 28, 1850 — Literary World
  • "The Haunted Palace" — April 16, 1853 — Littel's Living Age (also with a reprint of "The Bells")
  • "The Haunted Palace" — 1856 — Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner
  • “The Haunted Palace” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems  and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:19-20)
  • “The Haunted Palace” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:31-32, and p. 181)
  • “The Haunted Palace” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:83-84, and 10:200-201)
  • “The Haunted Palace” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (pp. 38-39, and p. 225)
  • “The Haunted Palace” — 1917 —  The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 102-104, and pp. 237-240)
  • “The Haunted Palace” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (pp. 88-89, and pp. 253-256)
  • “The Haunted Palace” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:312-318)

Associated Material and Special versions:

  • "[The Haunted Palace]" — 1857 — "Edgar Allan Poe," Magazin für die Literatur des Auslandes (131:522-524)  (German translation by Luise von Ploennis.)













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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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