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Texts and Variant Texts
Reading copy:
- “To My Mother” —
reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00)
Manuscripts and
Authorized
Printings:
- "Sonnet -- To My Mother"
(1849,
no original manuscript
- "Sonnet -- To My Mother"
(July 7, 1849,
text "B"
— Flag of Our Union)
- "To My Mother"
(1850, text
"B" — WORKS)
- "Sonnet to My Mother"
(1849, text
"C" — Leaflets of Memory for 1850) (an "annual" for 1850 would
have
been printed and sold in 1849, and is reviewed in the Literary World
for November 17, 1849, see below.) (Although issued before WORKS,
this appears to be a more fully revised version, probably arranged by
Poe before his death but unknown to Griswold.)
Reprints:
- "Sonnet -- To My Mother"
(August 8,
1849, text "BA"
—
reprint, Oquawka
Spectator) (noted as copied from the Flag of Our Union)
- "To My Mother" (October 29, 1849,
text "CB" —
reprint, Richmond
Examiner)
- "To My Mother" (November 17, 1849 —
reprint, Literary
World) (reprinted from "C")
- "To My Mother" (December 7, 1849 — reprint, Herald,
New
York)
- "To My Mother" (December 8, 1849 — reprint, Brooklyn
Daily
Eagle,
New York) (Reprinted from Herald)
- "To My Mother"
(December
1849, text
"CC" — reprint with minor prefatory material, Sartain's)
- "To My Mother" (December 1849, text
"CD" —
reprint, Southern
Literary Messenger)
- "To My Mother" (November 24, 1849,
text "CE" —
reprint, Home
Journal)
- "To My Mother" (April 1850 — reprint, Sartain's,
p. 312)
- "[To My Mother]" (October 30, 1858,
text "CF" —
reprint, Home
Journal, included in a "letter" about Poe by N. P. Willis.)
Associated Material and Special versions:
- “To My Mother” — 1930s — In the 1930s, a number of
companies manufactured Mother's Day plaques using the first stanza of
Poe's poem.
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