Text-01 — “Mellonta Tauta” — 1849, no original manuscript or fragments are known to
exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02) (It should also be noted that the great similarity of the
“letter” and the introductory material for Eureka suggests a strong connection between these works. Although
Eureka was given as a public lecture and published more than a year before “Mellonta Tauta,” it is not
impossible that the order of composition was reversed.)
Text-02 — “Mellonta Tauta” — February 1849 —
Godey's Lady's Book — (Mabbott text A) (This is Mabbott's copy-text) (For
Griswold's 1856 reprinting of this text, see the entry below, under reprints.)
Reprints:
“Mellonta Tauta” — 1856 — WORKS
— Griswold reprints Text-02, omitting the introductory letter (Mabbott text B)
“Mellonta Tauta” — 1874 — Works
of Edgar A. Poe, edited by J. H. Ingram, vol. 2, pp. 520-534 (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms)
“Mellonta Tauta” — November 1933 — Amazing Stories, vol. 8, no. 7
(Illustrated by Leo Morey)
Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:
“Mellonta Tauta” — 1894-1895 —
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (4:259-277)
(This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms)
“Mellonta Tauta” — 1902 — The
Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 6: Tales V, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (6:197-215, and 6:295-296)
“Mellonta Tauta” — 1978 — The
Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales & Sketches II, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press (3:1289-1309)
“Mellonta Tauta” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, ed. Patrick F. Quinn
(New York: Library of America), pp. 871-885
“Mellonta Tauta” — 1887 — Edgar Poë: Derniers Contes, Paris: Albert
Savine (French translation by Félix Rabbe)
“Mellonta Tauta” — 1950 — Histories grotesques et sérieuse par
Edgar Poe, Paris: Classiques Garnier (French translation by Léon Lemonnier)
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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.
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.
Pollin, Burton R., “Politics and History in Poe's ‘Mellonta Tauta’: Two Allusions
Explained,” Studies in Short Fiction, Fall 1971, 8:627-631
Savoye, Jeffrey A., “Poe and the Gothic Bluebooks,” Edgar Allan Poe Review vol. 10, no. 1
(Spring 2009): 102-103. (Suggests a possible source in an early article called “Five Hundred Years Hence”)
Taft, Kendall, “The Identity of Martin Van Buren Mavis,” American Literature, January 1954,
26:562-563
Whipple, William, “Poe's Political Satire,” University of Texas Studies in English
(1956), 35:81-95.
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.
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