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[[SONNET]] TO ZANTE.
SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER, JANUARY, 1837; PHILADELPHIA SATURDAY MUSEUM, MARCH 4, 1843; 1845; BROADWAY JOURNAL, II. 2.
Text, 1845.
Variations of Southern Literary Messenger from the text.
Line 1 flowers, (o. c.) 2 take! (,) 6 entombed (entombed) 9 more! (! —) 11 Accurséd (Accursed) 13 O (O,) 13 O (O,) 13 Zante! (,).
Variations of Broadway Journal from the text.
Line 6 entombéd (entombed) 11 Accurséd (Accursed). [page 198:]
EDITOR’S NOTE.
In this Sonnet of the Shakespeare form the poet recites the associations of the ‘fair isle’ now become accursed ground. Note the recurring — no more.
The poem is thought to have been suggested by a passage in Chateaubriand's “Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem,” p. 15.
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Notes:
None.
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[S:0 - JAH07, 1902] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Editions - The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (J. A. Harrison) (Notes to To Zante)