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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" — about April, 1849, no
original
manuscript or
fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded
in Text 02) — Text 01
- "To My Mother"
— 1850 — WORKS — Text 03 (Mabbott text B) (This is
Mabbott's first copytext for the poem) (although
printed later than Leaflets of Memory for 1850, this version
appears to be an earlier revision)
- "Sonnet to My Mother"
— 1849 — Leaflets of Memory for 1850 — Text 04 (Mabbott
text C) (This is Mabbott's second copytext for the poem) (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
—
reprint, Oquawka
Spectator (noted as copied from the Flag of Our Union)
- "Sonnet to My Mother"
—
about September 1849 — Richmond
Examiner proof sheets (H&C give a publication date as
October 29, 1849, but
apparently in error. Stovall searched the files of the Examiner
carefully, and found no printing of the sonnet. It is presumed that
Whitty saw F. W. Thomas' transcription of the poem from
the Examiner proof sheets. According to Whitty, the text
matched that printed in the Southern Literary Messenger, which
was itself a reprinting of the poem from Leaflets of Memory for 1850.)
- "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 — reprint with minor prefatory material, Sartain's
- "Sonnet to My Mother" — December 1849 — Southern
Literary Messenger (printed with some brief introduction and
commentary to encourage financial support for Mrs. Clemm)
- "To My Mother" — November 24, 1849 —
reprint, Home
Journal
- "To My Mother" — April 1850 — reprint, Sartain's,
p. 312
- "[To My Mother]" — October 30, 1858 — Home
Journal (included in a "letter" about Poe by N. P. Willis.)
- “To My Mother” — 1875 — The Works of
Edgar
Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram,
Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black
(3:25)
- “To My Mother” —
1894-1895
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E.
Woodberry and E. C. Stedman,
Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:94, and 10:195)
- “To My Mother” — 1902 — The Complete Works of
Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y.
Crowell (10:116, and 10:218)
- “Sonnet — To My Mother” — 1911 — The Complete
Poems
of
Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton
Mifflin Co. (p. 78,
and pp. 241-242)
- “To My Mother” —
1917
— The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell,
Boston: Ginn and Company (p. 133, and pp. 291-293)
- “To My Mother” —
1965
— The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall,
Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 123, and pp.
286-287)
- “To My Mother” —
1969 — The Collected Works of
Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O.
Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
(1:465-468) (Mabbott prints two versions of the poem)
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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