Text-01 — “The Philosophy of Composition” — 1846, no original manuscript or fragments
are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
“[The Philosophy of Composition]” — February 16, 1850 — New England
Washingtonian, Boston, MA (reprints 6 paragraphs)
“The Philosophy of Composition” — September 21, 1850 — The New York Tribune
“The Philosophy of Composition” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H.
Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:266-278)
“The Philosophy of Composition” — 1888 — The Complete Poetical Works and Essays on
Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. John H. Ingram, London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co. (pp. 175-187)
“The Philosophy of Composition” — 1901 — World’s Greatest Literature: Essays of
American Essayists, with an introduction by Chauncy C. Starkweather, New York: P. F. Collier & Son (pp. 255-266, with
introductory information appearing on pp. 253-254) (This essay is the only item by Poe in this collection)
Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:
“The Philosophy of Composition” — 1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 6:
Literary Criticism, eds. E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (6:31-46, and 6:323)
“The Philosophy of Composition” — 1902
— The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (14:193-208)
“The Philosophy of Composition” — 1909 — Selections from the Critical Writings of
Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Frederick C. Prescott, New York: Henry Holt (pp. 150-166 and 334-337)
“The Philosophy of Composition” — 1917 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. K.
Campbell, New York: Ginn and Co. (pp. 318-328)
“The Philosophy of Composition” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and Reviews, ed.
G. R. Thompson, New York: Library of America (pp. 13-25)
“The Philosophy of Composition” — 2009 — Edgar Allan Poe: Critical Theory, Stuart
and Susan F. Levine, eds., Chicago: University of Illinois Press (pp. 55-76)
“La génèse d‘un poème” — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire)
“Méthode de composition” — April 20, 1859 — Revue
française
“La génèse d‘un poème” — 1865 — Histoires grotesques
et sérieuses, Paris: Michel Lévy frères
“[The Philosophy of Composition]” — 1862 — Lieder und Balladenbuch Americanischer und
Englischer Dichter (Hamburg) (German translation by Adolf Strodtmann, noted by Ingram, The Raven, with Literary and
Historical Commentary, London: George Redway, 1885, p. 72.)
La philosophie de composition” — 1889 — Poésies complétes de Edgar Allan
Poe, Paris: Camille Dalou (French translation by Gabriel Mourey)
“The Philosophy of Composition” — 1923 — Representative English Essays, New York:
Harper & Brothers (selected and arranged by Warner Taylor) (This is the only Poe essay in the book. It is included in a chapter
called “Essays on the Art of Writing.”)
“[The Philosophy of Composition]” — 1926 — Trois Manifestes, Paris: Simon Kra
(French translation by René Lalou)
“The Philosophy of Composition” — 2007 — Audio book (unabridged), read by Chris Aruffo (part of a 5-CD set)
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Joural des traaducteurs/Translators’ Journal, June 1996, 41:208-216
Bonessio di Terzet, Ettore, “Introduzione,” in La filosofia della composizione, by Edgar
Allan Poe, Milan: Guerrini e Associati, 1995, pp. 11-21
Brown, Arthur A., ‘A Man Who Dies’: Poe, James, Faulkner and the Narrative Function of Death,
PhD disseration, University of California, Davis, 1995
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.
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