Last Update: March 18, 2008  Navigation:  Main Menu    Poe's Works    Poe's Tales    Poe's Poems    Poe's Essays
 
 
Edgar Allan Poe — “Landor's Cottage”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “Landor's Cottage” — reading copy — based on Text 00

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
  • "Landor's Cottage" — about mid-January 1849 — manuscript, now lost (This manuscript is noted in Poe's letter to Annie Richmond, January 21, 1849. It was first sent to Israel Post, for his new magazine the Metropolitan. When that periodical ceased publication after only two issues, the manuscript was returned to Poe, who then sent it to the Flag of Our Union, about April or May 1849, where it was first printed. This manuscript has apparently not surivied, but is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "Landor's Cottage" — June 9, 1849 — Flag of Our Union — Text 02 (Mabbott text A)

Reprints:
  • "Landor's Cottage"  — 1850 — WORKS — (Griswold reprints Text 02, with only a few minor editorial changes and corrections) (Mabbott text B)  (This is Mabbott's copytext)
  • “Landor's Cottage” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (2:113-129)
  • “Landor's Cottage” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 6: Tales V, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (6:255-271, and 6:297)
  • “Landor's Cottage” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales & Sketches II, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (3:1325-1343)

Associated Material and Special versions:
  • “Le cottage Landor” — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire)
    • “Le cottage Landor” — June 24, 1865 — La Vie Parisienne
    • “Le cottage Landor” — 1865 — Histoires grotesques et sérieuses, Paris: Michel Lévy frères











xxxxxx.








Bibliography:
  • Achilles, Jochen, "Edgar Allan Poe's Dreamscapes and the Transcendentalist View of Nature," Amerikastudien/American Studies, 1995, 40:553-573
  • Dayan, Joan, "The Road to Landor's Cottage: Poe's Landscape of Effect," University of Mississippi Studies in English (1982), 3:136-154.
  • 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, "Landor's Cottage," Notes & Queries (August 1960), 205:314.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978.
  • Mize, George E., "The Matter of Taste in Poe's 'Domain of Arnheim' and 'Landor's Cottage'," Connecticut Review (1972), 6:93-99.
  • Rainwater, Catherine, "Poe's Landscape Tales and the 'Picturesque' Tradition," Southern Literary Journal (1984), 16:30-43.
  • Rosenfeld, Alvin, "Description in Poe's 'Landor's Cottage'," Studies in Short Fiction (Spring 1967), 4:264-266.
  • Wyllie, John Cooke, "A List of the Texts of Poe's Tales," Humanistic Studies in Honor of John Calvin Metcalf, Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1941, pp. 322-338.



 
[S:0 - JAS] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Tales - Landor's Cottage