Edgar Allan Poe — “Enigma [On Shakespeare]”

Reading copy:

• “Enigma [On Shakespeare]” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “Enigma” — 1832-1833, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
• Text-02 — “Enigma” — February 2, 1833 — Baltimore Saturday Visiter — (Mabbott text A — This is Mabbott's copy-text)

Reprints:

• None.

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “Enigma [on Shakespeare]” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:220-222)
• “Enigma” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, ed. Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America) (p. 71) (reprints Text-02)

Instream Comparative and Study Texts:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• None.

• 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.