Text: Burton R. Pollin, “End-of-line Hyphenations,” The Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe — Vol. II: The Brevities (1985), pp. xlvi-xlvii (This material is protected by copyright)


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End-of-Line Hyphenations in the Copy-Text of The Brevities

The following compound words are hyphenated at the end of the line in the original texts of The Brevities. The forms in which they have been transcribed in this text and listed below are drawn from other texts by Poe and from research into standard usage of his time. Words that were hyphenated at the end of the line in the original text but were deemed to be fused words are not listed. The numbers in column I refer to the articles of the separate sections of The Brevities.

PINAKIDIA HYPHENATIONS

Article
Number
   
7   banquet-scene
12   half-serious              

MARGINALIA HYPHENATIONS

       Intro          pencil-scratches
Intro   transition-thought
Intro   topsy-turvy
15   thrice-victorious
16   so-called
19   raree-show
23   over-scrupulous
27   twenty-first
34   hand-writing
67   hyper-excursive
71   non-convulsive
99   seventy-five
109   hop-skip-and-jump
109   Post-Prandian
109   Three-Bottle
114   ante-room
115   Hebrew-Greek
116   romantico-histories
120   play-wrights
140   “Outre-Mer”
143   well-digested
158   New-York
165   “Hero-Worship”
165   fellow-man
171   play-wright
178   self-praise
179   two-thirds
203   greasy-looking
211   title-page
221   prize-essay [page xlvii:]

LITERARY SMALL TALK HYPHENATIONS

         4           far-fetched                    

FIFTY SUGGESTIONS HYPHENATIONS

         1           blue-stocking                

SUPPLEMENTARY MARGINALIA HYPHENATIONS

         3           one-third                    
         9   nest-like
       11   pick-pocketism
       14   church-yard

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End-of-Line Hyphenations in the Text of The Brevities

The following compound words are hyphenated at the end of the line in the present text of The Brevities. The forms below represent the compound words as used in the original copy-text, within the line, or as determined by Poe's usage elsewhere for the two thus placed in both texts. If a hyphenated word does not appear below, it can be assumed to be a single or a fused word according to the original copy-text. The article of The Brevities in which the word occurs is listed in column one below:

Brevities
article
   
M Intro   pencil-scratches
M 29   thirty-six
M 29   non-essentials
M 58   carrion-crow
M 99   seventy-five
M 104   grass-green (para. 3)
M 109   Three-Bottle
M 114   apple-dumpling
M 118   self-dependence
M 146   rifle-barrel
M 160   thirty-eight
M 200   sleep-walker
M 215   never-ending
M 221   self-sufficient
M 289   title-page
FS 1   blue-stocking
FS 22   clear-sightedness
SM 12   poet-love
SM 13   warrior-Christian
SM 13   Punch-men

 


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Notes:

None.

 

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[S:0 - BRP2B, 1985] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Editions - The Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe (B. R. Pollin) (End-of-line Hyphenations)