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Edgar Allan Poe — “Lenore”






Texts and Variant Texts

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

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings (full text):
  • "A Pæan" — 1831, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "A Pæan" — 1831 — POEMS — Text 02  (Mabbott text A)
  • "A Pæan" — January 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger — Text 03  (Mabbott text B)  (This is Mabbott's copytext for "A Paean," which he prints as a separate poem)
  • "Lenore" — February 1843 — Pioneer (Printed in Boston and also Philadelphia) — Text 04  (Mabbott text A1)  (This is Mabbott's copytext for the Pindaric version)
  • "Lenore" — February 25 and March 4, 1843 — Saturday Museum — Text 05  (Mabbott text B1)
    • "Lenore" — February 25, 1843  (no surviving copies located)
    • "Lenore" — March 4, 1843  (reprinted from February 25, 1843)
  • "Lenore" — about October 1844 — uncertain periodical, possibly the New York Sunday Times (Text reprinted in the Jackson Advocate and the Evening Mirror in 1844, see reprints, below) — Text 06  (Mabbott text C1)
  • "Lenore" — February 1845 — Graham's (printed as part of J. R. Lowell's article on Poe) — Text 07  (Mabbott text D1)
  • "Lenore" — August 16, 1845 — Broadway Journal — Text 08  (Mabbott text E1)
  • "Lenore" — 1845 — RAOP — Text 09  (Mabbott text F1)
  • "Lenore" — late 1849 — Poets and Poetry of America (10th edition, dated 1850) — Text 10  (Mabbott text G1)
  • "Lenore" — about August 1849 — manuscript revisions in J. Lorimer Graham copy of RAOP — Text 11  (Mabbott text J1)
  • "Lenore" — September 18, 1849 — Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser — Text 12  (Mabbott text K1)  (This is Mabbott's copytext for the Long-lines version)
  • "Lenore" — about September 1849 — Richmond Examiner proof sheet — Text 13  (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 (as "A Paean"):
  • “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)

Reprints (as "Lenore"):
  • "[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)
  • “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)

Associated Material and Special versions:
  • "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)












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Bibliography:
  • 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



 
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