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The following compound words are hyphenated at the end of the line in the original texts of The Brevities. The forms in which they have been transcribed in this text and listed below are drawn from other texts by Poe and from research into standard usage of his time. Words that were hyphenated at the end of the line in the original text but were deemed to be fused words are not listed. The numbers in column I refer to the articles of the separate sections of The Brevities.
PINAKIDIA HYPHENATIONS
Article Number
7 banquet-scene
12 half-serious
MARGINALIA HYPHENATIONS
Intro pencil-scratches
Intro transition-thought
Intro topsy-turvy
15 thrice-victorious
16 so-called
19 raree-show
23 over-scrupulous
27 twenty-first
34 hand-writing
67 hyper-excursive
71 non-convulsive
99 seventy-five
109 hop-skip-and-jump
109 Post-Prandian
109 Three-Bottle
114 ante-room
115 Hebrew-Greek
116 romantico-histories
120 play-wrights
140 “Outre-Mer”
143 well-digested
158 New-York
165 “Hero-Worship”
165 fellow-man
171 play-wright
178 self-praise
179 two-thirds
203 greasy-looking
211 title-page
221 prize-essay [page xlvii:]
LITERARY SMALL TALK HYPHENATIONS
4 far-fetched
FIFTY SUGGESTIONS HYPHENATIONS
l blue-stocking
SUPPLEMENTARY MARGINALIA HYPHENATIONS
3 one-third
9 nest-like
11 pick-pocketism
14 church-yard
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End-of-Line Hyphenations in the Text of The Brevities
The following compound words are hyphenated at the end of the line in the present text of The Brevities. The forms below represent the compound words as used in the original copy-text, within the line, or as determined by Poe’s usage elsewhere for the two thus placed in both texts. If a hyphenated word does not appear below, it can be assumed to be a single or a fused word according to the original copy-text. The article of The Brevities in which the word occurs is listed in column one below:
Brevities article
M Intro. pencil-scratches
M 29 thirty-six
M 29 non-essentials
M 58 carrion-crow
M 99 seventy-five
M 104 grass-green (para. 3)
M 109 Three-Bottle
M 114 apple-dumpling
M 118 self-dependence
M 146 rifle-barrel
M 160 thirty-eight
M 200 sleep-walker
M 215 never-ending
M 221 self-sufficient
M 289 title-page
FS 1 blue-stocking
FS 22 clear-sightedness
SM 12 poet-love
SM 13 warrior-Christian
SM 13 Punch-men
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Notes:
None.
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[S:0 - BRP2B, 1985] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Editions - The Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe (B. R. Pollin) (End-of-line Hyphenations)