Text-01 — “The Island of the Fay” — May 1841, no original manuscript or fragments are
known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02) — (the printing in Graham's is dated at the end as
“Philadelphia, May, 1841”)
Text-03 — “The Island of the Fay” — 1842 — TGAPP (manuscript of title
only) — (The title is listed in Poe's handwritten table of contents, but the text itself no longer survives. It was
probably a modified version of the printed text from Graham's Magazine, and is presumably recorded, with perhaps a few
additional changes made in proof, in Text-04.)
Text-05 — “The Island of the Fay” — 1845-1849 — (speculated copy of the
Broadway Journal with manuscript changes made by Poe. This version has not survived, but is presumably represented by
text-06. Changes are too significant to suggest merely editorial meddling, including one fully new footnote, and Poe himself was not
alive to make changes in proof. These changes are not so significant, however, that a new manuscript is indicated.)
“The Island of the Fay” — 1867 — Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, first series
(New York: W. J. Widdleton), pp. 360-365 (This collection is extracted from the 1850-1856 edition of Poe's Works. It
was reprinted several times.)
“The Island of the Fay” — 1874 —
Works of Edgar A. Poe, edited by J. H. Ingram, vol. 1, pp. 273-278 (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various
forms)
“The Island of the Fay” — 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. 121-126) (This tale is included as
one of six “Prose Poems,” without further explanation.)
Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:
“The Island of the Fay” —
1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales, eds. E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry, Chicago: Stone and
Kimball (2:84-91)
“The Island of the Fay” — 1902 —
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales III, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (4:193-199, and
4:307-308)
“The Island of the Fay” — 1978 —
The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press (2:597-606)
“The Island of the Fay” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, ed. Patrick
F. Quinn (New York: Library of America), pp. 933-938
“L‘Ile de la fée” — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire)
“L‘Ile de la fée” — January 28-30, 1855 — Le Pays
“L‘Ile de la fée” — Part I — January 28, 1855
“L‘Ile de la fée” — Part II — January 30, 1855
“L‘Ile de la fée” — 1857 — Nouvelles histoires par Edgar Poe, Paris:
Michel Lévy frères
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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.
Ljungquist, Kent P., “Poe's ‘Island of the Fay‘: The Passing of Fairyland,”
Studies in Short Fiction (1977), 14:265-271.
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.
Miller, F. DeWolfe, “The Basis for Poe's ‘The Island of the Fay’,” American
Literature (May 1942), 14:135-140.
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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