Text-01 — “Alone” — about 1828
— “Wilmer” manuscript — (Mabbott text A)
Text-02 — “To M——” — late 1829 — (speculated
manuscript changes made by Poe to the proof-sheets during the typesetting process for ATMP. The printed
form differs from the manuscript, including the title. For “Tamerlane,” various differences between
the text printed by Neal and that printed in ATMP strongly suggest that Poe continued to make some changes
during the process of typesetting and proofing. These proof-pages have not themselves survived, but the text is
presumably reflected in Text-03.)
Text-03 — “To M——” — 1829
— ATMP — (Mabbott text B — This is Mabbott's copy-text for this early
version)
Text-04 — “To M——” — 1845
— manuscript revisions in ATMP-EH (no textual revisions, but stanzas 3-5 are marked for deletion, in
preparation for RAOP, where the poem was not used) — (Mabbott text C)
Text-05 — “To ——”
— 1845-1849 — “Osgood” manuscript — (Mabbott text D — This is
Mabbott's copy-text for the final version) (for Griswold's 1850 reprint of this
text, see the entry below.)
Reprints:
“To M—” — 1830 — Baltimore Minerva and Emerald (excerpt,
printed as part of a review of ATMP)
“To ——” — 1850
— WORKS — (Mabbott text E) (Griswold is the first printing of Text-05, but with no changes
or additional authority, and thus a reprint.)
“To ——” —
1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and
Charles Black (3:35)
“To ——” — July 31, 1879 — Clay Center Dispatch
(Clay Center, Kansas), vol. 7, no. 21, p. 3, col 4 (under the heading “Olla-Podeida”)
“[To ——]” — July 9, 1879 — Champain County Herald
(Urbana, IL), vol. 2, no. 32, p. 3, col. 4 (under the heading “Olla-Podeida”)
“[To ——]” — May 12, 1922 — Ocala Banner (Ocala,
FL), vol. 56, no. 19, p. 3, col. 5
“To ——” — August 19, 1936 — Mason City
Globe-Gazette (Mason City, Iowa), vol. XLII, no. 270, p. 4, col 2
Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:
“To ——” —
1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, eds. E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry,
Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:87, and pp. 193-194)
“To ——” —
1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y.
Crowell (10:43, and 10:167-168)
“To ——” —
1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin
Co. (p. 131, and pp. 278-279)
“To ——” —
1917 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (p. 52, and p.
196)
“To ——” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed.
Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 44, and pp. 207-208)
“To M—” — 1969
— The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press
of Harvard University Press (1:135-138) (Mabbott gives two versions of the poem)
“To ——” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales,
ed. Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America) (p. 57) (reprints the text from Mabbott, 1969)
“To M—” —
Comparative Text (ATMP-EH and Osgood-MS)
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Associated Material and Special Versions:
Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:
“A —” — dated 2009, but available in late 2008 —
Poèmes d‘Edgar Allan Poe, Paris: Publibook (translation by Jean Hautepierre)
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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.
Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol 1
Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.
Woodberry, George Edward and Edmund Clarence Stedman, The Works of Edgar Allan Poe,
Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1895, 10:194-194
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