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Edgar Allan Poe — “Four Beasts in One”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “Four Beasts in One” — reading copy — based on Text 00

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
  • "Epimanes" — May 4, 1833— "Buckingham" manuscript — Text 01  (Mabbott text A)
  • "Epimanes" — March 1836— Southern Literary Messenger — Text 02  (Mabbott text B)
  • "Epimanes" — 1840 — TGA — Text 03  (Mabbott text C)
  • "The Homocameleopard" — 1842 — manuscript title revision in TGAPP (volume II, which seems to have had revisions by Poe, is lost. but this version is presumably recorded in Text 05) — Text 04
  • "Four Beasts in One" — December 6, 1845 — Broadway Journal — Text 05  (Mabbott text D)

Reprints:
  • "Four Beasts in One" — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text 05  (Mabbott text E)  (This is Mabbott's copytext)
  • “Four Beasts in One” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (4:92-102) (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms)
  • “Four Beasts in One; the Homo-Cameleopard” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales I, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (2:203-213, and 2:375-377)
  • “Epimanes (Four Beasts in One)” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:117-130)

Associated Material and Special versions:
  • “Quatre bêtes en une” — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire)
    • “L'Homme caméléopard ou Quatre bêtes en une” — July 28, 1854 — Le Pays
    • “Quatre bêtes en une” — 1857 — Nouvelles histoires par Edgar Poe, Paris: Michel Lévy frères











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Bibliography:
  • 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.
  • Itoh, Shoko, "Urbanity in Poe," Chu-Shikoku Studies in American Literature (1986), 22:5-13.
  • Lecompte, C. " 'The Homeo-Cameleopard' ou la mort de Dieu," Delta: Revue de Centre d'Edtdes et le Recherche sur les Ecrivains du Sud aux Etats-Units (1975), 1:83-94.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978.
  • Whipple, William, "Poe's Political Satire," University of Texas Studies in English (1956), 35:81-95.
  • Wyllie, John Cooke, "A List of the Texts of Poe's Tales," Humanistic Studies in Honor of John Calvin Metcalf, Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1941, pp. 322-338.



 
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