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Edgar Allan Poe — “Israfel”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “Israfel” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00)

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
  • "Israfel" — 1831, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "Israfel" — 1831 — POEMS — Text 02  (Mabbott text A)  (This is Mabbott's copytext for this early version)
  • "Israfel" — August 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger — Text 03  (Mabbott text B)
  • "Israfel" — October 1841 — Graham's — Text 04  (Mabbott text C)
  • "Israfel" — February 25 and March 4, 1843 — Saturday Museum — Text 05  (Mabbott text D)
    • "Israfel" — February 25, 1843 (no surviving copies located)
    • "Israfel" — March 4, 1843 (reprinted from February 25, 1843)
  • "Israfel" — July 26, 1845 — Broadway Journal — Text 06  (Mabbott text E)
  • "Israfel" — 1845 — RAOP — Text 07  (Mabbott text F)  (for Griswold's reprinting of the text in WORKS, see reprints, below)
  • "Israfel" — 1845-1848 — minor manuscript revision of punctuation in the J. L. Graham copy of RAOP — Text 08  (Mabbott text G)  (This is Mabbott's copytext for the final version)
  • "Israfel" — about September 1849 — Richmond Examiner proof sheets — Text 09
  • "Israfel" — late 1849 — Poets and Poetry of America (10th edition, dated 1850) — Text 09  (Mabbott text H)

Reprints:
  • "Israfel" — November 1841 — Lady's Pearl (Lowell, MA)  (noted as "BY EDGAR A. POE" and "From Graham's Magazine")
  • "Israfel" — November 26, 1845 — New-York Daily Tribune
  • "Israfel" — November 29, 1845 — New-York Weekly Tribune
  • "Israfel" — about September 1849 — Richmond Examiner proof sheets — (the text given by Whitty matches Text 08 exactly. It may be surmised that the Examiner text was set from Poe's copy of RAOP. Strangely, Whitty does not list the J. L. Graham copy of RAOP in his versions of this poem, although he does include references to this voume in the variants for other poems.)
  • "Israfel" — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold merely reprints Text 07  (Mabbott text J)
  • “Israfel” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems  and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:59-60)
  • “Israfel” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:29-30, and pp. 178-181)
  • “Israfel” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:47-48, and 10:172-174)
  • “Israfel” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (pp. 24-25, and pp. 215-217)
  • “Israfel” — 1917 —  The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 57-59, and pp. 203-207)
  • “Israfel” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (pp. 48-49, and pp. 213-215)
  • “Israfel” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:171-179)

Associated Material and Special versions:
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Bibliography:
  • Campbell, Killis, "Poe, Stevenson, and Beranger," Dial, November 16, 1909, 47:374-375
  • Davidson, Gustav, "Poe's 'Israfel'," Literary Review (Fairleigh Dickinson), 1968, 22:86-91
  • Friesner, Donald Neil, "Ellis Bell and 'Israfel'," Bronte Society Transactions, 1964, 14:11-18
  • 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, "Poe's 'Israfel'," Explicator, June 1944, vol. 2, item 57
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol 1 Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.
  • Mabie, Hamilton Wright, " 'To Helen' and 'Israfel," Outlook, April 24, 1907, 91:955-957
  • St. Armand, Barton Levi, "Poe's Unnecessary Angel: 'Israfel' Reconsidered," in Ruined Eden of the Present: Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, ed. G. R. Thompson, Virgil L. Lokke, and Chester E. Eisinger, West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1981, 283-302
  • V., K. N., "Israfel," Explicator, October 1943, vol. 2. (a query)
  • Werner, W. L., "Poe's 'Israfel'," Explicator, April 1944, vol. 2, item 44



 
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