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Texts and Variant Texts
Reading copy:
- “The Literati of New York City” —
reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 02)
Manuscripts and
Authorized
Printings:
- "The Literati of New York City" (about February
1846, text
"A" — six
"roll"
manuscripts, not seen since 1846 and almost certainly lost.) (There
seem
to be no surviving manuscripts from the original series. Several items
which have appeared in exhibition and auction catalogues as manuscript
fragments from "The Literati" are generally from "Literary America,"
noted
below. All we know about the manuscripts is what is contained in the
printed
texts, and a pleasant recollection by Francis Sargent Osgood: "I
recollect,
one morning, toward the close of his residence in this city . . . I
found
him just completing his series of papers entitled 'The Literati of New
York.' 'See,' said he, displaying in laughing triumph several little
rolls
of narrow paper (he always wrote thus for the press), 'I am going to
show
you by the differences of length the different degrees of estimation in
which I hold all you literary people. In each of these one of you is
rolled
up and fully discussed. Come, Virginia, help me!' And one by one they
unfolded
them . . " (F. S. Osgood, quoted in Woodberry, 1885, p. 261 and 1909,
II,
pp. 181-182).)
- "The Literati of New York City" (1846, text "B")
- "The Literati of New-York — S. Anna Lewis"
- "Literary America"
(text "C" —
manuscript
material,
generally used by Griswold in WORKS)
- The Literati (text "D" — misc. manuscript
material)
- "Henry B. Hirst"
- "[Henry B.
Hirst]" (about 1848, "Stedman"
Manuscript)
(intended
for "Marginalia" 1848)
- "Henry B. Hirst"
(about 1848, "Griswold"
Manuscript)
(Possibly
intended
for "Marginalia" 1848)
- (Note that "The Literati" material is closely
tied to some
"Marginalia"
items and a few reviews. Some revisions may be from Poe's projected but
never completed books, The Living
Writers of America (about 1846) and Literary
America (1848)
Reprints:
- "Lydia M. Child" (August 29, 1846, reprint
of "A" — Baltimore
Saturday Visiter)
- "William Ross Wallace" (October 22, 1849,
reprint of
"D" — New
York Tribune)
- "Margaret Fuller, Marchesa D'Osoli" (Aug.
6, 1850,
reprint of
"D",
the one item only — International Weekly Miscellany, pp.
162-165)
- "The Literati of New York City" — 1875 — The
Works of
Edgar
Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black
(4:407-490) (Ingram reprints the version of these articles from Godey's
Lady's Book)
- "The Literati" — 1895 — The Works of
Edgar
Allan Poe, vol. 8: Literary Criticism, ed. G. E.
Woodberry and E. C. Stedman,
Chicago: Stone and Kimball (8:3-324, and 8:349-352)
- "The Literati" — 1902 — The Complete
Works
of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 15: Literati and Autography, ed. J. A.
Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell
(15:1-137, and 15:263-293) (Harrison reprints the version of
these articles from Godey's
Lady's Book, and gives the "Griswold" versions as an appendix)
- “The Literati of New York City” — 1984 — Edgar
Allan Poe: Essays and Reviews, ed. G. R. Thompson, New York:
Library of America (pp. 1118-1222)
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