Edgar Allan Poe — “Beloved Physician”


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Reading and Reference Texts:

Reading copy:

  • “Beloved Physician” — reading copy

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Historical Texts:

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

  • Text-01 — “Beloved Physician” — April 1847 — (Mabbott text A) — [No original manuscript or fragments are known to exist, but the only excerpts of this version that are likely to have survived are presumably recorded in Text-02 and Text-03. The title is based on Poe's letter of June 1848.]
  • Text-02 — “Beloved Physician” — January 23, 1875 — recollection of fragments by Mrs. Shew, sent to J. H. Ingram. — (Mabbott text B) — [By 1875, Mrs. Shew was Mrs. Houghton, and her letter to Ingram is the basis for his article, from which Text-03 is taken. Because Ingram includes all of the relevant material from her letter, and there is no other source for the poem, Text-03 is allowed to stand as representative.]
  • Text-03 — “Beloved Physician” — January 1909 — Bookman (NY) — fragments only, published by J. H. Ingram — (Mabbott text C — This is Mabbott's copy-text)

 

Reprints:

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Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

  • “The Beloved Physician” — 1928 — Selected Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott, New York: Macmillian
  • The Beloved Physician” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:401-404)

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Comparative and Study Texts:

Instream Comparative and Study Texts:

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Plain Text Files for Juxta:

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Associated Material and Special versions:

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

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Bibliography:

  • 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.
  • Ingram, John Henry, “Edgar Allan Poe's Lost Poem ‘The Beautiful Physician’,” Bookman (New York, NY), vol. XXVIII, no. 5, January 1909, pp. 452-454.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol 1 Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.

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