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AL: American Literature
Am.: American
BJ: The Broadway Journal
Br.: The Brevities of Poe, Vol. II of The Collected Writings (1985), Burton R. Pollin, editor
BGM: Burton's Gentleman's Magazine
Ch.: Charles
CS: Chapter of Suggestions, in Brevities
DAB: Dictionary of American Biography
DNB: Dictionary of National Biography
DP: Discoveries in Poe by Burton R. Pollin (1970)
EAP: Edgar Allan Poe
ed(s).: editor(s) or edition(s)
EM: Evening Mirror
En. Brit. or En. Br.: Encylopaedia Britannica, 11th edition, of 1911, unless another edition is specified
FS: Fifty Suggestions, in Brevities
Godey's: Godey's Lady's Book
Graham's: Graham's Magazine
H: Harrison, James A., ed., The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1902), 17 vols.
Letters: see Ostrom
L.: London
LC: Library of Congress
Lit. or Lit. in a title: literary or literature, but “Lit.” always means “Literati” (sketches of 1846 by Poe, printed in Godey's Lady's Book)
“Lit.”: “Literati” sketch (or sketches) of 1846
Log: The Poe Log, D. K. Jackson and D. Thomas, editors
LST: Literary Small Talk, in Brevities
M (or MM): Marginalia (one or several articles), in Brevities
mag.: magazine
Mi Q: Mississippi Quarterly
Moss, PLB: see PLB
OCAL: Oxford Companion: to American Literature
OCEL: Oxford Companion to English Literature
Odell: Annals of the New York Stage, Odell, ed.
OED: Oxford English Dictionary, a reissue of New English Dictionary (1884-1928; new ed., 1933)
Ostrom: Letters of ... Poe, J. W. Ostrom, ed. (1948, rep. 1966)
para(s).: paragraph(s)
PCW: Poe, Creator of Words, Burton R. Pollin, ed. (revised and [page lix:] augmented edition, 1980)
PD: Dictionary of Names and Titles in Poe's Collected Works, Burton R. Pollin, ed. (1968)
Pin: Pinakidia, in Brevities
PLB: Poe's Literary Battles by Sidney P. Moss (1970)
PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association (the journal)
PN. Poe Newsletter (later Poe Studies)
Poems (or TOM, Poems): Poems of Poe, ed. Mabbott, see TOM
PPA: The Poets and Poetry of America, R. W. Griswold, ed. (1842)
PS: Poe Studies
pseud.: pseudonym
pub.: published; occasionally, publisher
Quinn: Poe: A Critical Biography by A. H. Quinn (1941)
ref(s).: reference(s)
ref(s).: review(s), occasionally, reviewed
ROP: Poe, The Raven and Other Poems (1845)
SAR: Studies in the American Renaissance (an annual)
SLM. Southern Literary Messenger
SM: Supplementary Marginalia, in Brevities
TOM: Thomas Ollive Mabbott, ed., Tales and Sketches (1978), or simply his name alone; also TOM, Poems: vol. 1 of the Harvard ed. (1978)
U.P.: University Press
Wm.: William
WM. Weekly Mirror (based on the Evening Mirror)
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Notes:
None.
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[S:0 - BRP4J, 1986] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Editions - The Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe (B. R. Pollin) (Abbreviations)