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(no issue for September 1834 was published, nor were there issues for
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1835 - January
(vol. I, no. 5) Poe's connection with the magazine seems not to
have started until
the
March 1835 issue, with his reviews beginning with the issue of April
1835. A few earlier items have been attributed to Poe, but also
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- Tale - "The Doom" (rejected)
(pp.
235-240) (signed as
"BENEDICT.")
(Attributed to Poe by James H. Whitty, Poems, 1911, pp.
xxviii-xxix
and 286, repeated in the edition of 1917 on pp. xxviii-xxix and 317.
Whitty
felt that a "memorandum left by Poe in the 'Duane' copy of the Messenger
. . . [a] poem [To Sarah] and an unpublished story [The Doom] were both
acknowledged by Poe." Killis Campbell argued persuasively against the
attribution
in The Mind of Poe and Other Studies, 1933, pp. 210-211. The
"memorandum"
Whitty claimed to have seen no longer exists, nor is its exact text
known.
A personal examination of the two volumes of the Duane copy of the Messenger,
in August of 2001, revealed no such note. It may have been on a
separate
piece of paper.)
- Criticism - Original Literary Notices (only one of
the
four
reviews
has been
attributed
to Poe, although all are probably by others)
- "Poems. By William Cullen Bryant" (rejected)
(article,
first
printing)
(pp. 250-251) (attributed by George E. Woodberry, Works, 1985-1896, VI,
p. 324, but generally dismissed by other scholars. James A. Harrison
reluctantly
reprinted the review in 1902 in his 17-volume edition of Poe's works,
noting,
"Professor Woodberry . . . asserts that Poe wrote the
criticsm
on Bryant in the Messenger for January, 1835; but there is no
evidence
for this, nor for Poe's connection with the Messenger at this early
date.
Still we insert the review -- ED" (Harrison, Works, 1902, VIII, p. vii,
note 1). W. D. Hull attributes the review to James E. Heath. Woodberry
has perhaps confused this review with the the later one of Bryant from
the SLM for January 1837, which certainly is by Poe.)
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1835 - February
(vol. I, no. 6) |
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- Criticism - Original Literary Notices (only two
of the four
reviews
have been
attributed to Poe, although both are probably by others. W. D. Hull
considered
all but the review of Calavar to be by Nathaniel Beverly
Tucker.)
- Review - Oration of The Life and Character of
Gilbert Motier de
Lafayette
and Eulogy on La Fayette (???) (article, first printing)
(text
A) (p. 307) (attributed by H&C as "doubtful", and generally
dismissed.
W. D. Hull attributes the notice to N. B. Tucker. James A. Harrison
does
not reprint or mention the oration.)
- Review of
R. M. Bird - Calavar
or, The Knight of the Conquest (???) (review, first printing)
(text A) (p. 315, cols. 1-2) (attributed by H&C and W. D. Hull, but
disputed by T. O. Mabbott. James A. Harrison reprints the review, but
Pollin
and Ridgley do not.)
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1835 - March
(vol. I, no. 7) |
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- Tale - "Berenice
-- A Tale" (first printing) (text 02)
(pp.
333-336)
(signed as "BY EDGAR A. POE.")
- Poem - "Extract from an Unfinished Poem" (rejected)
(first
printing) (p.
370) (Tenatively attributed to Poe by Killis Campbell, MLN, May
1917, and The Mind of Poe and Other Studies, 1933, p. 206. Also
attributed by H&C, with an question mark, but generally dismissed.
T. O. Mabbott specifically rejects the poem, saying "I cannot accept
it"
(Poems, 1968, p. 506 item 46).)
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1835 - April
(vol. I, no. 8) |
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- Tale - "Morella --
A Tale" (first printing)
(text B)
(pp.
448-450)
(Includes the poem "Catholic Hymn," her published without title.)
- Criticism - Critical Notices (All first
printings) (pp. 456-460) (All
of
these
items were attributed to Poe by W. D. Hull and were included by Pollin
and Ridgely. T. O. Mabbott was uncertain of the first four reviews, but
considered all of the remaining reviews "surely or presumptively
Poe's."
Only the review of Osborn is mentioned by H&C.)
- Review - The North American Review
- Review - The London Quarterly Review
- Review of Jacob H. Drew - The Life, Character,
and Literary
Labours
of Samuel Drew, A. M.
- Review of Henry Lee - The Life of the Emperor
Napoleon
- Review of George H. Borrow - Celebrated Trials
of All
Countries
- Review of Andrew Reed - No Fiction
- Review of Laure Saint-Martin Junot - Memoirs of
Celebrated
Women of
All Countries
- Review of Charlotte Anley - Influence, a Moral
Tale
- Review of Charles Whitehead - Lives and
Exploits of English
Highwaymen,
Pirates and Robbers
- Review of Laughton Osborn - Confessions of a
Poet
- Review - The Language of Flowers
- Review of Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Practical
Education
- Review of James B. Fraser - The Highland
Smugglers
- Review of John G. Lockhart - Valerius
- Review - An Account of Col. Crockett's Tour to
the North
and Down
East
- Review of Susanna Warfield - Illorar de Courcy
- Review of Charles Fenno Hoffman - A Winter in
the West
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1835 - May (vol.
I, no. 9) |
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- Tale - "Lion-izing.
A Tale" (first printing) (text A)
(pp.
515-516)
(Signed, "BY EDGAR A. POE.")
- Misc. - Swimming (first printing) (text
A)
(p. 468,
col.
2)
- Criticism - Literary Notices (pp. 520-531)
- Review of
John P.
Kennedy - Horse-Shoe
Robinson
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1835 - June (vol.
I, no. 10) |
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- Tale - "Hans Phaal
-- A Tale" (first printing)
(text A)
(pp.
565-580)
(Signed, "BY EDGAR A. POE.")
- Criticism - Literary Notices (pp. 582-596)
- Review of R.
M. Bird - The
Infidel
- Review of George Bancroft - A History of the
United States
(attributed to Poe by H&C as "Doubtful." Rejected by T. O. Mabbott)
- Review - Blackbeard (attributed to
Poe by H&C
as
"Doubtful."
Accepted by T. O. Mabbott)
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1835 - July (vol.
I, no. 11) |
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- Poem - "To Mary"
(first printing) (text A) (p. 636,
col.
2)
(Signed, "E. A. P.") (This poem was later revised and printed as
"To Frances.")
- Tale - "The
Visionary -- A Tale" (reprint)
(text A) (p. 637)
- Criticism - Literary Notices (pp.
646-652)
(According to White's
letter
of August 18, 1835 to Lucian Minor, all of the reviews in the issue of
July 1835 are by Sparhawk. At least three have been mistakenly
attributed
to Poe, and are therefore listed here.)
- Review of Washington Irving - The Crayon
Miscellany
(rejected)
(erroneously printed by Harrison as Poe's)
- Review of Theodore Irving - The Conquest of
Florida
(rejected) (erroneously printed by Harrison as Poe's)
- Review - American Republication of Foreign
Quarterlies
(rejected) (erroneously attributed by Harrison as Poe's)
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1835 - August
(vol. I, no. 12) |
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- Poem - "To Sarah" (rejected) (p. 692)
(signed as
"Sylvio.")
(Attributed to Poe by James H. Whitty, Poems, 1911, p. 286,
repeated
in the edition of 1917 on p. 317. Whitty felt that a "memorandum left
by
Poe in the 'Duane' copy of the Messenger . . . [this] poem and
an
unpublished story [The Doom] were both acknowledged by Poe." In 1928,
T.
O. Mabbott included the poem in his edition of Selected Poems of Edgar
Allan Poe (New York: Macmillian Co., 1928, p. 101), with the following
note: "This poem was never acknowledged by Poe in print, but Mr. J. H.
Whitty claims he found a MS. note directing attention to it in a copy
of
the Southern Literary Messenger once used by Poe. The note is
lost,
nor has its exact wording been published -- but I believe for various
reasons
that the poem is Poe's" (p. 130).Mabbott, however, in his final edition
of Poe's Poems, 1968, rejects the poem, stating, "He [Whitty]
admitted
to me that a memorandum he found in a copy of the magazine that was
once
in Poe's hands did not specifically acknowledge authorship" (p.
506, item 48).)
- Tale - "Bon-Bon --
A Tale" (reprint) (text A)
(pp.
693-698)
(Signed, "BY EDGAR A. POE.")
- Misc. - "The Unities" (first printing) (text A)
(p. 698,
col.
1)
(This is a very short filler item.)
- Misc. - "[Untitled]" (first printing) (text A)
(p. 699,
col.
2)
(This is a very short filler item.)
- Poem - "The
Coliseum. A Prize Poem" (reprint)
(text ?) (p.
706, cols.
1-2) (Signed, "BY EDGAR A. POE" and noted as "From the Baltimore
Visiter.")
- Critical Notices
and Literary
Intelligence
(pp. 714-716) (According to White's letter of September 8, 1835
to
Lucian Minor, all of the reviews in the issue of August 1835 are by
Poe.)
- Notice of Reed and Matheson - Visit to the
American Churches
- Notice - The Black Watch
- Notice of Theodore Hook - Magpie Castle
- Notice of Benjamin Silliman - The American
Journal of
Science and
the
Arts, Vol. XXVII, No. 11
- etc
- Misc.
- "To
Readers and
Correspondents" (first printing) (text A) (p. 716)
(Attributed
to Poe by H&C.)
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1835 - September
(vol. I, no. 13) |
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- Misc. - "[Untitled]" (first printing) (text A)
(p. 734,
col.
2)
(This is a very short, one-sentence filler item about Milton and Paradise
Lost.)
- Tale - "Loss of
Breath. A Tale a la Blackwood"
(reprint)
(text ?)
(pp. 735-740) (signed, "BY EDGAR A. POE" and noted as "For the
Southern
Literary Messenger.")
- Misc. - "[Untitled]" (first printing) (text A)
(p. 740,
col.
2)
(This is a very short, one-sentence filler item about the "Acajou et
Zirphile"
of Du Clos.)
- Poem - "Lines
Written in an Album" (first
printing) (text
A)
(p.
748, col. 2) (signed, "E. A. P." and noted as "For the Southern
Literary
Messenger.")
- Tale - "King Pest
the First. A Tale Containing an
Allegory"
(first
printing)
(text ?) (pp. 757-761) (signed, "BY ------" and noted as "For the
Southern Literary Messenger.")
- Tale - "Shadow. A
Fable" (first printing) (text
?) (pp.
762-763)
(signed, "BY ------" and noted as "For the Southern Literary
Messenger.")
- Criticism
- Critical Notices (pp.
776-780)
(According to White's letter of October 20, 1835 to Lucian Minor, all
of
the reviews in the issue of September 1835 are by Poe.)
- Review Robert F. Williams - Mephistopheles in
England
- Review of J. Orville Taylor - The District
School, or
National
Education
- Review - The New England Magazine for
September
- Review of Daniel Drake, editor - The Western
Journal of the
Medical
and Physical Sciences
- Review of Euripides, translated by the Reverend R.
Potter - The
Classical
Family Library, Nos. XV, XVI and XVII.
- Review of Robert Southey - The Early Naval
History of
England
- Review Miss Leslie, editor - The Gift for 1836
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