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Texts and Variant Texts
Reading copy:
- “Politian” —
reading copy (copy-text is based on Texts 01, 03 and 04)
Manuscripts and
Authorized
Printings:
- "Politian" — 1835 — "Politian"
Manuscript — Text 01 (Mabbott text A) (This is Mabbott's
copy-text for scenes I, II, V, VIII, X, and XI)
- "Scenes from an Unpublished Drama" — December 1835
and January 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger — Text
02 (Mabbott text B)
- ["Scene
from Politian"] — March 29, 1845 — lines from scene IV,
quoted in
"Imitation —
Plagiarism"— Broadway Journal — Text 03
(Mabbott text C)
- "Scenes from
'Politian' " — 1845 — [scenes
III,
IV, VI, VII and IX] — RAOP — Text 04
(Mabbott text D) (This is Mabbott's copy-text for scenes III, VI,
VII, and IX)
- "Scenes from
'Politian' " — 1846-1849 — [scene IV], very minor manuscript
revisions to the directions at the beginning of the scene III in Graham
copy of RAOP-JLG — Text
05 (Mabbott text E) (This is Mabbott's copy-text for scene
IV)
Reprints:
- "Scenes from
'Politian' " — 1850 — scenes
III,
IV, VI,
VII and IX — WORKS — Griswold merely reprints Text
04 (Mabbott text F)
- ["Scene from Politian"] (lines from scene IV,
quoted in "Mr.
Longfellow
and Other Plagiarists") — 1850— WORKS — Griswold merely
reprints Text 03 (Mabbott text G)
- “Scenes from 'Politian' ” — 1875 — The Works of
Edgar
Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram,
Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black
(3:36-52) (Ingram reprints Text 03)
- ["Scenes from Politian"] — November 1875 — in "Poe's
'Politian'" by
John H.
Ingram, two printings of the same article: — (Mabbott text H)
- ["Scenes from Politian"] — November 1875 — Southern
Magazine (10:588-594)
- ["Scenes from Politian"]
— November 1875 — London
Magazine
of Light Literature
- "Politian" — 1888 — The
Poetical Works of Edgar A. Poe,
London and New York, edited by John H. Ingram — (Mabbott text J)
- “Scenes from 'Politian' ” —
1894-1895
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E.
Woodberry and E. C. Stedman,
Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:49-74, and pp. 187-188) (this
edition reprints the same scenes included in RAOP)
- “Scenes from 'Politian' ” — 1902 — The Complete
Works
of
Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y.
Crowell (10:59-79, and 10:194-197) (this
edition reprints the same scenes included in RAOP)
- “Scenes from 'Politian' ” — 1911 — The Complete
Poems of
Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton
Mifflin Co. (pp.
40-59, and pp. 226-230)
- ["Transcript of a scene from 'Politian'"] — Nov.-Dec.
1912 — The Autograph
(features a somewhat innacurate transcript of scene XI) — (Mabbott text
L)
- “Scenes from 'Politian' ” — about May 1917 — The
Complete
Poems of
Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton
Mifflin Co. (pp.
40-59, and pp. 258-262, with additional material pp. 324-327) (second
edition) (This version
adds scene XI from the manuscript) — (Mabbott text M)
- “Scenes from 'Politian' ” —
1917
— The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell,
Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 80-100, and pp. 227-233)
- "Politian" — 1923, text "N" — Politian
(This
version was edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott) — (Mabbott text N)
- “Politian” —
1965
— The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall,
Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (pp. 63-84, and pp.
245-251) (This version was edited by Floyd Stovall, and
sequences the scenes somewhat differently than does Mabbott) — (Mabbott
text P)
- “Politian” —
1969 — The Collected Works of
Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O.
Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
(1:241-298) (This version was edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott,
relying on the various parts to create the full text)
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