Text-01 — “The Divine Right of Kings” — 1845, no original manuscript or fragments are
known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
Text-02 — “The Divine Right of Kings” — October 1845
— Graham's Magazine — (Mabbott text A) (This is Mabbott's copy-text)
Reprints:
“The Divine Right of Kings” — June 11, 1846 — Boston Post (Boston, MA), vol.
XXVIII, no. 138, p. 1, col. 5 (neither the source nor author are acknowledged) (This entry was provided to the Poe Society by Ton
Fafianie in an e-mail dated December 17, 2018)
“The Divine Right of Kings” — June 30, 1846 — Syracuse Daily Star (Syracuse, NY),
vol. II, no. 46, whole no. 355, p. 2 top of col. 1 (neither the source nor author are acknowledged) (This entry was provided to the
Poe Society by Ton Fafianie in an e-mail dated December 17, 2018)
“The Divine Right of Kings” — November 21, 1915 — J. H. Whitty, “New Poe Poems and
Manuscripts Found,” New York Sun (In this article, Whitty first attibutes the poem to Poe. This article also attributes
to Poe a poem called “Life's Vital Stream,” which has since been identified as a copy Poe made of a poem by
someone else. The article was also printed, on the same date, in the Baltimore American)
“The Divine Right of Kings” — November 21, 1915 — Philadelphia Inquirer
(Philadelphia, PA), vol. 173, no. 144, p. 52 (included in a reprint of the article by J. H. Whitty)
“The Divine Right of Kings” — November 21, 1915 — Gazette Times (Pittsburgh, PA),
vol. 130, no. 116, p. 35, col. 3 (included in a reprint of the article by J. H. Whitty)
“The Divine Right of Kings” — January 27, 1916 — J. H. Whitty, “Discoveries in the
Uncollected Poems of Edgar Allan Poe,” New York Nation (pp. 105-106) (a revision of the previous article)
Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:
“The Divine Right of Kings” — 1917
— The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co (p. 150, and pp. 320-321)
(This poem was added to the second edition, and does not appear in the first edition of 1911)
“The Divine Right of Kings” — 1917
— The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (p. 144, and p. 303, although in the
first issue of this edition the poem appears on p. 143.)
“The Divine Right of Kings” — 1969
— The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press (1:382-385)
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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.
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