Robert Montgomery Bird

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Review of Calavar
  • Review of Calavar   (?) (February 1835, text “A” — Southern Literary Messenger) (Poe’s authorship has been disputed.)

• Review of The Infidel
  • Review of The Infidel   (?) (June 1835, text “A” — Southern Literary Messenger) (Poe’s authorship has been disputed, and the review is thought to be by Edward V. Sparhawk.)

• Review of Sheppard Lee
  • Review of Sheppard Lee   (September 1836, text “A” — Southern Literary Messenger)

• Review of The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow
  • Review of The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow   (December 1835, text “A” — Southern Literary Messenger)
  • “Robert M. Bird”  (1850, text “B” — Works) (includes the last two paragraphs from the Sheppard Lee review.)

• Review of The Adventures of Robin Day
  • Review of The Adventures of Robin Day (June 1839 — Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine) ((attributed to Poe by T. O. Mabbott as “possibly Poe’s, but too doubtful, omit.”)

• Notice from “Autography”
  • “Robert M. Bird” (“Autography” - part I) — February 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger
  • “Robert M. Bird” (“A Chapter on Autography” - part I) — November 1841 — Graham’s Magazine

Reprints:

• Review of The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow and Sheppard Lee
  • “Robert M. Bird”  1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 4: Autography and Criticism, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (4:282-287) (reprinted from Works of 1850) (includes the last two paragraphs from the Sheppard Lee review.)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• Review of The Infidel
  • Review of The Infidel   (?) — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 8: Literary Criticism - Part 01, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (8:32-37) (from June 1835 — Southern Literary Messenger) (Poe’s authorship has been disputed, and the review is thought to be by Edward V. Sparhawk.)

• Review of The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow
  • “Bird’s ‘The Hawks of Hawks-Hallow’ and ‘Sheppard Lee’” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Literary Criticism - Part 02, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (7:85-91) (reprinted from Works of 1850) (includes the last two paragraphs from the Sheppard Lee review.)
  • Review of The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow   — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 8: Literary Criticism - Part 01, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (8:63-73) (from December 1835 — Southern Literary Messenger)
  • Review of The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow   — 1997 — The Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 5: SLM, 5:50-53 (notes, 5:75) (from December 1835 — Southern Literary Messenger)

• Review of Sheppard Lee
  • Review of Sheppard Lee   — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 9: Literary Criticism - Part 02, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (9:126-139) (from September 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger)
  • Review of Sheppard Lee   — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and Reviews, ed. G. R. Thompson, New York: Library of America, pp. 389-403 (from September 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger)
  • Review of Sheppard Lee   — 1997 — The Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 5: SLM, 5:282-286 (notes, 5:289) (from September 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger)