Edgar Allan Poe — “Annabel Lee”

Reading copy:

• “Annabel Lee” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “Annabel Lee” — late May 1849 — “Griswold” manuscript
  • “Annabel Lee” — late May 1849 — “Griswold” manuscript  (Mabbott text A)  (This is Mabbott’s first copy-text for the poem)
  • “Annabel Lee” — October 9, 1849 — New-York Daily Tribune  (The “Ludwig” obituary)  (Mabbott text G)
  • “Annabel Lee” — late 1849 — Poets and Poetry of America (10th edition, dated 1850)  (Mabbott text J)
  • “Annabel Lee” — 1850 — WORKS — (Mabbott text L)
• Text-02 — “Annabel Lee” — June 1849 — “Moore” manuscript — (Mabbott text B)
• Text-03 — “ Annabel Lee” — July 1849 — “Hirst” manuscript — (Mabbott text C)
• Text-04 — “Annabel Lee” — July 1849 — “Sartain” manuscript
  • “Annabel Lee” — July 1849 — “Sartain” manuscript — (Mabbott text D)
  • “Annabel Lee” — January 1850 — Sartain’s — (Mabbott text K)
• Text-05 — “Annabel Lee” — about September 1849 — Richmond Examiner — (Mabbott text F)
• Text-06 — “Annabel Lee” — September 26, 1849 — “Thompson” manuscript
  • Text-06a — “Annabel Lee” — September 26, 1849 — “Thompson” manuscript — (Mabbott text E)  (This is Mabbott’s second copy-text for the poem)
  • Text-06b — “Annabel Lee” — November 1849 — Southern Literary Messenger — (Mabbott text H)

Reprints:

• “Annabel Lee” — October 13, 1849 — Gazette of the Union, Golden Rule, and Odd Fellow’s Family Companion (vol. XI, no. 15, p. 240, col. 2) (apparently reprinted from the New York Tribune, based on the fact that it cites the Tribune and quotes two sentences from the obituary notice before giving the full poem.)
• “Annabel Lee” — October 13, 1849 — Literary World, New York
• “Annabel Lee” — October 13, 1849 — McMakin’s Model American Courier, Philadephia, PA
• “Annabel Lee” — October 13, 1849 — Richmond Enquirer, Richmond, VA
• “Annabel Lee” — October 16, 1849  — New-York Tribune (California edition)
• “Annabel Lee” — October 16, 1849 — Troy Post, Troy, NY
• “Annabel Lee” — October 18, 1849 — Boston Emancipator and Republican, Boston, MA
• “Annabel Lee” — October 18, 1849 — Lynchburg Virginian, Lynchburg, VA (reprinted as part of the “Ludwig” obituary from the Tribune)
• “Annabel Lee” — October 19, 1849 — Tri-Weekly American, Lowell, MA  (Reprinted from NY Tribune)
• “Annabel Lee” — October 20, 1849 — Home Journal  (Reprinted in N. P. Willis’s article “The Death of Poe,” in quoting from the “Ludwig” obituary from the Tribune)
• “Annabel Lee” — October 20, 1849 — Albion, New York, NY
• “Annabel Lee” — October 20, 1849 — Gem of the Prairie, Chicago, IL
• “Annabel Lee” — October 20, 1849  — New-York Weekly Tribune
• “Annabel Lee” — October 20, 1849 — Saturday Evening Post (Philadelphia)  (reprinted as part of the “Ludwig” obituary from the Tribune)
• “Annabel Lee” — October 22, 1849 — Rochester Democrat, Rochester, NY
• “Annabel Lee” — October 23, 1849 — Evening Mirror (NY)
• “Annabel Lee” — October 23, 1849 — New York Republican, Troy, NY
• “Annabel Lee” — October 24, 1849 — Dollar Newspaper (Philadelphia)  (reprinted as part of the “Ludwig” obituary from the Tribune)
• “Annabel Lee” — October 27, 1849 — Boston Weekly Museum and Literary Portfolio (reprinted as part of an obituary from the New York Metropolis)
• “Annabel Lee” — October 29, 1849 — New Orleans Weekly Delta, New Orleans, LA
• “Annabel Lee” — October 29, 1849 — Daily Toledo Blade, Toledo, OH
• “Annabel Lee” — October 31, 1849 — Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH
• “Annabel Lee” — October 31, 1849 — Marysville Tribune, Marysville, OH  (probably reprinted from NY Tribune)
• “Annabel Lee” — November 1849 — Western Literary Messenger, Buffalo, NY (published by Calvin F. S. Thomas)
• “Annabel Lee” — November 1, 1849 — Pittsfield Sun, Pittsfield, MA
• “Annabel Lee” — November 2, 1849 — Lebanon Western Star, Lebanon, OH
• “Annable [[Annabel]] Lee” — November 3, 1849 — Portland Transcript (ME)
• “Annabel Lee” — November 3, 1849 — Hartford Weekly Times, Hartford, CT  (Reprinted from the New York Tribune)
• “Annabel Lee” — November 3, 1849 — Pittsburgh Saturday Visiter, Pittsburgh, PA
• “Annabel Lee” — November 3, 1849 — Portland Transcript, Portland, ME
• “Annabel Lee” — November 3, 1849 — Literary Union, Syracuse, NY  (Reprinted as part of the “Ludwig” obituary)
• “Annabel Lee” — November 7, 1849 — Painesville Telegraph, Painesville, OH
• “Annabel Lee” — November 7, 1849 — New Hampshire Gazette and Republican Union, Portsmouth, NH
• “[Annabel Lee]” — November 8, 1849 — Vincennes Gazette, Vincennes, IN
• “Annabel Lee” — November 9, 1849 — Daily Chronicle and Sentinel, Augusta, GA
• “Annabel Lee” — November 12, 1849 — Nova Scotian, Halifax, Nova Scotia
• “Annabel Lee” — November 13, 1849 — Weekly Democrat, Chicago, IL  (by “the late E. A. Poe”)
• “Annabel Lee” — November 14, 1849 — Rome Citizen, Rome, NY
• “Annabel Lee” — November 16, 1849 — Schenectady Reflector, Schenectady, NY
• “Annabel Lee” — November 23, 1849 — Indiana State Weekly Journal, Indianapolis, IN
• “Annabel Lee” — 1850 — The Present or a Gift for the Times, Manchester, New Hampshire, edited by F. A. Moore
• “Annabel Lee” — 1850 — Thomas Powell, The Living Writers of America, New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1850, pp. 126-127
• “Annabel Lee” — February 9, 1850 — New England Washingtonian, Boston, MA
• “Annabel Lee” — 1853 — Thalatta: A Book for the Sea-Side, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Field, pp. 188-189 (This is a collection of poetry by various authors, from Bryant to Wordsworth, all with some kind of sea connection. This poem is the only Poe item in the collection.)
• “Annabel Lee” — 1853 — An Offering to Beauty, Lowell: Merrill and Straw (The full title of this ornately bound book is: An Offering to Beauty: Composed of the Choicest Descriptions of Female Loveliness, Virtue, Accomplishments, Attractions, and Chams; Comprising the Poetry of Woman, edited by J. W. Hanson. Poe’s poem appears on pp. 226-228.)
• “Annabel Lee” — February 1854 — Southern Literary Messenger
• “Annabel Lee” — February 1854 — Graham’s  (reprinted in a biographical notice, pp. 216-225)
• “Annabel Lee” — April 1854 — North-Carolina University Magazine (vol. III, p. 116, col. 1) (signed as "by Edgar Allan Poe")
• “Annabel Lee” — 1858 — Achievements of Americans, Cincinnati: Henry Howe  (along with “The Raven”)
• “Annabel Lee” — 1865 — Golden Leaves from the American Poets, collected by John W. S. Hows, New York: Bunce and Huntington (This common collection of popular poems includes works by Poe, Emerson, Longfellow, J. R. Lowell, F. S. Key, Whittier, and others.)
• “Annabel Lee” — October 8, 1864  — Home Journal
• “Annabel Lee” — 1867 — Roses and Holly, a Gift-Book for all the Year (published by J. B. Lippincott)
• “Annabel Lee” — 1868 — Chimes for Childhood: A Collection of Songs for Little Ones, Dana Estes, ed., Boston: Lee & Shepard (pp. 92-95) (reprinted 1871)
• “Annabel Lee” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems  and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:18-19)
• “Annabel Lee” — January 17, 1909 — the New York Times (facsimile of the manuscript given to John W. Moore)
• “Annabel Lee” — October 1889 — Current Literature (vol. 3, p. 326) (this item is noted by George Monteiro, “Fugitive Reprints,” E. A. Poe Review, Fall 2010, p. 162.)
• “Annabel Lee” — August 10, 1899 — Republican Herald (Phoenix, AZ) (p. 6) (this item is noted by George Monteiro, “Fugitive Reprints,” E. A. Poe Review, Fall 2010, p. 162.)
• “Annabel Lee” — October 6, 1907 — The State (Columbia, SC) (p. 26) (this item is noted by George Monteiro, “Fugitive Reprints,” E. A. Poe Review, Fall 2010, p. 162.)
• “Annabel Lee” — November 14, 1920 — Macon Daily Telegraph (p. 6) (this item is noted by George Monteiro, “Fugitive Reprints,” E. A. Poe Review, Fall 2010, p. 162.)
• and many others

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “Annabel Lee” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:41-42, and 10:186)
• “Annabel Lee” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:117-118, and 10:218-221)  (The full text of the “Griswold” manuscript is given in the notes)
• “Annabel Lee” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (pp. 80-82, and pp. 242-244)
• “Annabel Lee” — 1917 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 134-135, and pp. 293-297)
• “Annabel Lee” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (pp. 124-125, and pp. 287-290)
• “Annabel Lee” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:468-481)  (Mabbott prints two versions of the poem)
• “Annabel Lee” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America) (pp. 102-103) (reprints the text from Text-06b)

Instream Comparative Texts:

• None

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “[Annabel Lee]” — (1857 — “Edgar Allan Poe,” Magazin für die Literatur des Auslandes, 130:519-520.)  (German translation by Luise von Ploennis.)
• “Annabel Lee” — about 1890 — London: National Institute for the Blind  (a special printing in Moon type, similar to Braille in that it was intended for blind readers, but a very different system based more closely on a simplified Roman alphabet, developed by Dr. William Moon in the mid-1840s.)
• “[Annabel Lee]” — April 1919 — The Feather (New York) (Yiddish translation, considerably abbreviated) (The subtitle of the periodical is “A Monthly Journal Devoted to Literature, Art and Critic[ism]” It was published by the Literary Collegues Group, for which “Aron Carlin” is noted as the Literary Secretary. Everything other than the title page is in Yiddish. Aaron Carlin (1887-ca. 1945?) was a noted Yiddish editor, poet and translator. It is possible that the translation was done by him.)
• “Annabel Lee” — October 6, 1941 — for a radio broadcast on The Mercury Theater of the Air show, read by Orson Welles.
• “Annabel Lee” — October 10, 1949 — De Tsjerne (Frisian translation by Dam Jaarsma)  (This title provided by René van Slooten)
• “Annabel Lee” — 1960 — a reading by Nelson Olmsted on The Raven: Poems and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, issued on the Vanguard label (VRS-9046, rereleased as VSD-32)
• “Annabel Lee” — dated 2009, but available in late 2008 — Poèmes d‘Edgar Allan Poe, Paris: Publibook (translation by Jean Hautepierre)

Forgeries:

• “Annabel Lee” — (full manuscript, on two connected sheets, each measuring 4 5/16 x 7 inches, with 1/2 inch of each overlapping, and forming, in total height, 13 inches. The text is written in what appears to be dark brown ink, running from left to right edges, on only one side of the page, apparently in an attempt to imitate Poe’s use of roll manuscripts. There are some fold creases, and light staining. The paper is described as “light green tinted,” but may be an oddly faded blue. To a casual observer, the manuscript provides a convincing appearance, but is clearly a careful copy of the Thompson manuscript, reproduced in facsimile by Woodberry, 1909, 2:352, or the manuscript given to John W. Moore, which was given in facsimile in the New York Times, January 17, 1909. Poe’s name appears in the byline, near the top, and at the bottom, where the page is slightly torn, revealing “[Ford]ham New York.’ The fragment was offered as a genuine Poe manuscript by New England Book Auctions, Sale Number 366, October 21, 2008, as item 206, with an estimate of $30,000-$50,000, but was promptly retracted from sale over doubts about its authenticity. It was in the collection of Richard Oinonen, who died in 2001, and is probably the work of Joseph Cosey. It may have been kept by Mr. Oinonen as an example of a forgery by someone who was notably notorious in the field, especially for his Poe forgeries. It bears a strong resemblance to a forgery of “The Black Cat,” offered in the same sale as item 204.)

• Booth, Bradford A., “The Identity of ‘Annabel Lee‘,” College English, October 1945, 7:17-19
• Brown, Wallace C., “The English Professor’s Dilemma,” College English, April 1944, 5:380-385
• Empric, Julienne H., “A Note on “Annabel Lee‘,” Poe Studies, June 1973, 6:26
• Gross, Seymour L., “The Reflection of Conrad Aiken’s ’Strange Moonlight’,” Modern Language Notes, March 1957, 72:185-189
• 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.
• Law, Robert A., “A Source of ‘Annabel Lee‘,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology, October 2, 1922, 21:341-346
• Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol 1 Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.
• Melton, W. F., “Some Autobiographical Notes in Poe’s Poetry,” South Atlantic Quarterly, April 1912, 11:175-179
• Routh, James, “Notes on the Sources of Poe’s Poetry: Coleridge, Keats, Shelley,” Modern Language Notes, March 1914, 29:72-75