Edgar Allan Poe — “A Dream”

Reading copy:

• “A Dream” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “[Untitled]” — 1827, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
• Text-02 — “[Untitled]”   — 1827 — TAOP — (Mabbott text A)
• Text-03 — “A Dream”   — 1829 — ATMP — (Mabbott text B)
• Text-04 — “A Dream” — 1845 — manuscript changes in ATMP in preparation for RAOP — (Mabbott text C)
• Text-05 — “A Dream” — August 16, 1845 — Broadway Journal — (Mabbott text D)
• Text-06 — “A Dream” — 1845 — RAOP — (Mabbott text E)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text)

Reprints:

• “A Dream” — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold merely reprints Text-06  (Mabbott text F)
• “A Dream” — 1884 — Tamerlane and Other Poems, ed. Richard Herne Shepherd, London: George Redway (pp. 52)  (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.”)
• “A Dream” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems  and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:85)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “A Dream” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:134, and p. 231)
• “A Dream” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:19, and 10:153-154)
• “A Dream” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (p. 126, and p. 276)
• “A Dream” — 1917 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (p. 30, and p. 166)
• “A Dream” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 21, and pp. 184-185)
• “A Dream” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:79-80)

Instream Comparative Texts:

• None

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “Un Rêve” — 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.