Rejected — “Epigram for Wall Street”

Reading copy:

• “Epigram for Wall Street” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “Epigram for Wall Street” — 1845, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
• Text-02 — “Epigram for Wall Street” — January 23, 1845 — Evening Mirror — (Mabbott text A)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text)

Reprints:

• None.

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “Epigram for Wall Street” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:378)

Instream Comparative Texts:

• None

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• None.

• Brandoli, Enrico, “ ‘Epigram for Wall Street’: Who did it? Who?” Edgar Allan Poe Review, Fall 2011, vol. XII, no. 2, pp. 58-63. (This article traces the original printing to the Great Western Advertiser (Bristol, Bath, the South Western Counties, and South Wales, UK) for April 13, 1844. It was subsequently picked up and reprinted as a humorous filler item in a number of newspapers in the US. The author of this article still seems to assume that Poe was somehow involved in selecting and possibly renaming the item, although it is just as likely that Poe had no connection to it at all, and that it was adapted by other editors at the Mirror, such as Willis or Morris.)
• 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.