Edgar Allan Poe — “Eldorado”

Reading copy:

• “Eldorado” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “Eldorado” — 1849, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
• Text-02 — “Eldorado” — April 21, 1849 — Flag of Our Union — (Mabbott text A)
  

Reprints:

• “Eldorado” — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text 02, with the addition of a single comma  (Mabbott text B)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text)
• “Eldorado” — February 23, 1850 — Hartford Times (Hartford, CT)
• “Eldorado” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems  and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:31)
• “Eldorado” — January 16, 1921 — Macon Daily Telegraph (p. 6) (this item is noted by George Monteiro, “Fugitive Reprints,” E. A. Poe Review, Fall 2010, p. 162.)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “Eldorado” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:35, and 10:182)  (Woodberry and Stedman were aware of no printing earlier than Griswold’s)
• “Eldorado” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:123, and 10:224)
• “Eldorado” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (p. 79, and p. 242)
• “Eldorado” — 1917 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 128-129, and pp. 286-287)
• “Eldorado” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 117, and pp. 282-283)
• “Eldorado” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:461-465)
• “Eldorado” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America) (p. 101) (reprints Text-02)

Instream Comparative Texts:

• None

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “Eldorado” — dated 2009, but available in late 2008 — Poèmes d‘Edgar Allan Poe, Paris: Publibook (translation by Jean Hautepierre)

• Caputi, Anthony, “The Refrain in Poe’s Poetry,” American Literature, May 1953, 25:169-178
• Carlson, Eric, “Poe’s ‘Eldorado’,” Modern Language Notes, March 1961, 76:232-233
• Coad, O. S., “The Meaning of Poe’s ‘Eldorado’,” Modern Language Notes, January 1944, 59:59-61
• 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, “The Sources of Poe’s ‘Eldorado’,” Modern Language Notes, May 1945, 60:312-314
• Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol 1 Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.
• Pollin, Burton R., “Poe’s ‘Eldorado’ Viewed as a Song,” Prairie Schooner, 1972, 46:228-235
• Sanderlin, W. Stephan, “Poe’s ‘Eldorado’ Again,” Modern Language Notes, March 1956, 71:189-192