Edgar Allan Poe — “A Paean” and “Lenore”

Reading copy:

• “Lenore” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings (full text):

• Text-01 — “A Pæan” — 1831, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
• Text-02 — “A Pæan” — 1831 — POEMS — (Mabbott text A)
• Text-03 — “A Pæan” — January 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger — (Mabbott text B)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text for “A Paean,” which he prints as a separate poem)
• Text-04 — “Lenore” — February 1843 — Pioneer (Printed in Boston and also Philadelphia) — (Mabbott text A1)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text for the Pindaric version)
• Text-05 — “Lenore” — February 25 and March 4, 1843 — Saturday Museum — (Mabbott text B1)
  • “Lenore” — February 25, 1843  (no surviving copies located)
  • “Lenore” — March 4, 1843  (reprinted from February 25, 1843)
• Text-06 — “Lenore” — about October 1844 — uncertain periodical, possibly the New York Sunday Times (Text reprinted in the Jackson Advocate and theEvening Mirror in 1844, see reprints, below) — (Mabbott text C1)
• Text-07 — “Lenore” — February 1845 — Graham’s (printed as part of J. R. Lowell’s article on Poe) — (Mabbott text D1)
• Text-08 — “Lenore” — August 16, 1845 — Broadway Journal — (Mabbott text E1)
• Text-09 — “Lenore” — 1845 — RAOP — (Mabbott text F1)
• Text-10 — “Lenore” — late 1849 — Poets and Poetry of America (10th edition, dated 1850) — (Mabbott text G1)
• Text-11 — “Lenore” — about August 1849 — manuscript revisions in J. Lorimer Graham copy of RAOP — (Mabbott text J1)
• Text-12 — “Lenore” — September 18, 1849 — Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser — (Mabbott text K1)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text for the Long-lines version)
• Text-13 — “Lenore” — about September 1849 — Richmond Examiner proof sheet — (Whitty states that this text matches Text-11, but “with slight punctuation changes” which he does not record [Poems, 1911, p. 213])

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings (excerpts):

• “Lenore” — May 24, 1845 — excerpt only, 2 lines, Broadway Journal
• “Lenore” — May (?) 1849 (lines 20-26) — letter to R. W. Griswold — (Mabbott text H1)
• “[Lenore]” — about June 1849 — lines 10-12 only, “Stedman” manuscript  (These lines are quoted in an article about H. B. Hirst)
• “[Lenore]” — about June 1849 — lines 10-12 only, “Griswold” manuscript  (These lines are quoted in an article about H. B. Hirst)

Reprints:

• “[Lenore]” — before November 28, 1844 — Jackson Advocate (Tennesee)
  
• “[Lenore]” — November 28, 1844 — Evening Mirror (New York)
• “Lenore” — January 21, 1845 — Evening Mirror (New York) (Included as part of a reprint of J. R. Lowell’s article on Poe from Graham’s Magazine.)
• “Lenore” — early September 1845 — Chambersburg Times (Pennsylvania) (An unathorized reprint criticized by Poe in the Broadway Journal for September 13, 1845)
• “Dirge [Lenore]” — September 13, 1848 — Oquawka Spectator
• “[Lenore]” — October 17, 1849 — Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY)  (only a few stanzas)
• “Lenore” — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold prints Text-14  (Mabbott text L1)
• “[Lenore]” — 1850 — lines 10-12 only in article about H. B. Hirst, WORKS
• “Lenore” — November 2, 1850 — Boston Daily Times (Boston, MA)
• “Lenore” — 1856 — Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner
• “Lenore” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems  and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:13-14)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints (as “A Pæan”):

• “A Pæan” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (pp. 209-211)
• “A Pæan” — 1917 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 68-72, and pp. 214-217)
• “A Pæan” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:204-207)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints (as “Lenore”):

• “Lenore” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:17-18, and pp. 166-170)  (The full text of “A Pæan” is given in the notes)
• “Lenore” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:53-54, and 10:182-187)
• “Lenore” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (pp. 21-22, and pp. 209-214)
• “Lenore” — 1917 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 68-72, and pp. 214-217)
• “Lenore” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 56, and pp. 228-236)  (In his notes, Stovall gives the full texts of the 1843 “Lenore” and the 1831 “A Paean”)
• “Lenore” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:330-339)  (Mabbott gives two texts, one for the Pindaric version, and one for the Long-line version)

Instream Comparative Texts:

• None

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “Lenore” — 1864 — Der Rabe, die Glocken, Lenore, Philadelphia  (German translation)
• “Lenore” — 1960 — a reading by Nelson Olmsted on The Raven: Poems and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, issued on the Vanguard label (VRS-9046, rereleased as VSD-32)
• “Lenore” — dated 2009, but available in late 2008 — Poèmes d‘Edgar Allan Poe, Paris: Publibook (translation by Jean Hautepierre)

• Broderick, John C., “Poe’s Revisions of ‘Lenore’,” American Literature, January 1964, 35:504-510
• 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.
• Pollin, Burton R., “Poe and Frances Osgood, as Linked through ‘Lenore’,” Mississippi Quarterly, 1993, 46:185-197