Edgar Allan Poe — “Evangeline”

Reading copy:

• “Evangeline” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — [Model Verses” and “Evangeline”] — November-December 1846 — in “The Rationale of Verse” — manuscript — (Mabbott text A)
  • [Model I - Triple-rhymed natural-dactylic lines]  (not part of the surviving manuscript fragments)
  • [Model II - An Iambic line with “no natural feet”]  (not part of the surviving manuscript fragments)
  • [Model III - Dactylic lines with “natural feet”]  (This is the only example which exists in the surviving fragments, and that is only in a repetition of the second line)
  • [Model IV - A Trochaic line]  (not part of the surviving manuscript fragments)
  • [Model V - A line demonstrating the “error . . . of commencing a rhythm . . . with a ‘bastard’ foot’ “]  (not part of the surviving manuscript fragments)
  • [Model VI - A line demonstrating   (not part of the surviving manuscript fragments)
  • [Model VII - A line demonstrating a foot with the value of four short syllables  (not part of the surviving manuscript fragments)
  • [Model VIII - “Evangeline” or “a truly Greek hexameter”]  (not part of the surviving manuscript fragments)
• Text-02 — [Model Verses” and “Evangeline”] — October and November 1848 — in “The Rationale of Verse” — Southern Literary Messenger — (Mabbott text B)
  • [Model I - Triple-rhymed natural-dactylic lines]
  • [Model II - An Iambic line with “no natural feet”]
  • [Model III - Dactylic lines with “natural feet”]
  • [Model IV - A Trochaic line]
  • [Model V - A line demonstrating the “error . . . of commencing a rhythm . . . with a ‘bastard’ foot’ ”]
  • [Model VI - A line demonstrating
  • [Model VII - A line demonstrating a foot with the value of four short syllables
  • [Model VIII - “Evangeline” or “a truly Greek hexameter”]
• Text-03 — “Evangeline” — summer 1849 — in “Mem. for Philadelphia — manuscript — (Mabbott text D)

Reprints:

• [Model Verses” and “Evangeline”] — 1850 — in “The Rationale of Verse” — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text-02 — (Mabbott text C)
  • [Model I - Triple-rhymed natural-dactylic lines]
  • [Model II - An Iambic line with “no natural feet”]
  • [Model III - Dactylic lines with “natural feet”]
  • [Model IV - A Trochaic line]
  • [Model V - A line demonstrating the “error . . . of commencing a rhythm . . . with a ‘bastard’ foot’ “]
  • [Model VI - A line demonstrating
  • [Model VII - A line demonstrating a foot with the value of four short syllables
  • [Model VIII - “Evangeline” or “a truly Greek hexameter”]

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “Model Verses” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. I: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:392-396)

Instream Comparative and Study Texts:

• None

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• None.

• 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 (Vol 1 Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.