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Title page:
COLLECTED WORKS OF
Edgar Allan Poe
VOLUME I
POEMS
EDITED BY
THOMAS OLLIVE MABBOTT
THE BELKNAP PRESS OF
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cambridge, Massachusetts
1969
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Table of Contents
[page iii-iv:]
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
ILLUSTRATIONS
FRONTISPIECE
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Portrait by Samuel Stillman Osgood. Reproduced by permission of The New-York Historical Society.
FOLLOWING PAGE 352
TO OCTAVIA, 1827
From the album of Octavia Walton, dated in Octavia's hand. Reproduced by permission of the Columbia University Libraries.
A PAGE OF THE WILMER MANUSCRIPT, 1828
The last stanza of “Dreams” and the first stanza of “The Lake.” From Poe's manuscript collection of his poems long in the possession of his friend Lambert A. Wilmer. Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the Pierpont Morgan Library.
THE FIRST PAGE OF POLITIAN, 1835
Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the Pierpont Morgan Library.
EARLY CORRECTIONS FOR “THE RAVEN,” 1845
Within a week of the poem's first publication Poe corrected the bad rhyme in the eleventh stanza, sending the changes to his friend John Augustus Shea for the New-York Tribune. The poem, with the corrections, was printed in the Tribune for February 4, 1845. Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the Pierpont Morgan Library
VALENTINE FOR FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD, 1846
The copy sent to Miss Lynch's Valentine party. Poe misspelled Mrs. Osgood's middle name. This manuscript is reproduced through the courtesy of the Harvard College Library.
VALENTINE FOR MARIE LOUISE SHEW, 1847
HM 2513: the manuscript given to Mrs. Shew. Reproduced through the courtesy of the Henry E. Huntington Library.
ANNABEL LEE, 1849
The first three stanzas of the poem, from the manuscript given to Rufus W. Griswold. Reproduced through the courtesy of the Harvard College Library.
POE’S FOUR VOLUMES OF HIS POETRY
Paper wrapper of Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), reproduced through the courtesy of the Berg Collection, The New York Public Library.
Title page of Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems (1829), reproduced from the copy in the Aldis Collection, by courtesy of the Yale University Library.
Title page of Poems (1831), reproduced through the courtesy of the Harvard College Library
Paper wrapper of The Raven and Other Poems (1845), reproduced through the courtesy of the Harvard College Library.
TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE TO THE RAVEN AND OTHER POEMS (1845)
Corrections in the Lorimer Graham copy, now at the University of Texas. In the photographs supplied through the courtesy of the Miriam Lutcher Stark Library, Poe's faintly penciled changes were barely discernible; this reproduction is therefore made from the facsimile edition (1942), by permission of Columbia University Press. at p. 579
Page 15 of the Lorimer Graham copy of The Raven ... showing Poe's alterations. From the facsimile, through the courtesy of the University of Texas and Columbia University Press. at p. 580
THE BEGINNING OF AN EARLY POETRY COLLECTION
A heading and two lines of verse, on a sheet later used by John Allan for some figuring. From the Ellis and Allan Papers, by courtesy of the Library of Congress. at p. 582
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Notes:
All material in this edition is protected by copyright, exclusively held by the estate of the author and the Harvard University Press. Permission has been obtained by the Poe Society of Baltimore from Mabbott's estate and the President and Fellows of Harvard College to provide this electronic edition for academic and research purposes only. The Poe Society of Baltimore asks all users of this material to respect these copyrights, and not to exceed what would typically be considered as fair use (generally interpreted as selective quotations and/or paraphrasing of only a small percentage of the total material, and with the appropriate attribution and citation).
Although Poe's writings are essentially in the public domain, the texts presented here embody often painstaking editorial work by Thomas Ollive Mabbott, and that editorial work is protected by copyright. The introductory material, descriptions, annotations, and the apparatus of texts and variants are Mabbott's original work, and are even more clearly subject to copyright.
The text for this electronic version of the book was taken from an original printed form, revised for XHTML/CSS and to follow our own formatting preferences. Pagination of the original edition has been included.
The table of contents is a reasonable representation of the table of contents from the original printing, although indentation of entries has been added and the use of floating page numbers in the original has been altered for the current presentation. The section for Acknowledgements is not listed in the original, but has been provided here for the sake of supporting a link. In most other respects, it has followed the form of the original, including the positioning of page numbers for the main sections as the far right and for individual items the page number more closely follows the title. No link is provided for “FUGITIVE VERSES: 1829-1831” and “POEMS OF 1832-1835” because these pages are merely half-titles for the sections that follow, with no explanatory or introductory text of any kind.
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