Edgar Allan Poe — “The Divine Right of King”

Reading copy:

• “The Divine Right of King” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “The Divine Right of Kings” — 1845, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
• Text-02 — “The Divine Right of Kings” — October 1845 — Graham’s Magazine — (Mabbott text A) (This is Mabbott’s copy-text)

Reprints:

• “The Divine Right of Kings” — November 21, 1915 — J. H. Whitty, “New Poe Poems and Manuscripts Found,” New York Sun (In this article, Whitty first attibutes the poem to Poe. This article also attributes to Poe a poem called “Life’s Vital Stream,” which has since been identified as a copy Poe made of a poem by someone else. The article was also printed, on the same date, in the Baltimore American)
• “The Divine Right of Kings” — January 27, 1916 — J. H. Whitty, “Discoveries in the Uncollected Poems of Edgar Allan Poe,” New York Nation (pp. 105-106) (a revision of the previous article)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “The Divine Right of Kings” — 1917 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (p. 144, and p. 303, although in the first issue of this edition the poem appears on p. 143.)
• “The Divine Right of Kings” — 1918 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co (p. 150, and pp. 320-321)  (This poem was added to the second edition, and does not appear in the first edition of 1911)
• “The Divine Right of Kings” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:382-385)

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.