Edgar Allan Poe — “Dreams”

Reading copy:

• “Dreams” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “Dreams” — 1827, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
• Text-02 — “Dreams” — 1827 — TAOP — (Mabbott text A)
• Text-03 — “Extract — ‘Dreams’” — October 20, 1827 — North American (Baltimore, MD) — (Mabbott text B)
• Text-04 — “Dreams” — about 1828 — “Wilmer” manuscript — (Mabbott text C)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text)

Reprints:

• “Dreams” — 1884 — Tamerlane and Other Poems, ed. Richard Herne Shepherd, London: George Redway (pp. 43-44)  (Having long been thought lost, a copy of the original Tamerlane and Other Poems of 1827 was discovered in the British Museum and printed in this “second edition.”)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “Dreams” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:125-126, and p. 224)
• “Dreams” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:11-12, and 10:148)
• “Dreams” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (pp. 118-119, and pp. 271-272)
• “Dreams” — 1917 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 22-23, and pp. 157-158)
• “Dreams” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (pp. 13-14, and pp. 177-179)
• “Dreams” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:67-69)

Instream Comparative Texts:

• None

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “Rêves” — dated 2009, but available in late 2008 — Poèmes d‘Edgar Allan Poe, Paris: Publibook (translation by Jean Hautepierre)

• 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.
• Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol 1 Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.