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Commentary:

This serialized satirical fantasy was attributed by Arthur Hobson Quinn as possibly being by Poe. Quinn's statement is that “the evidence for Poe's authorship is largely internal” (see A. H. Quinn, pp. 757-761). Thomas Ollive Mabbott, however, felt that the author was more likely to be Nathan Covington Brooks, who was one of the editors of the American Museum (see Heartman & Canny, p. 145). The earliest attribution to Poe was probably the argument made in 1922 by Margaret Alterton (Poe's Critical Principles: their Sources and Development, dissertation, University of Iowa, chapter VI, pp. 2-22). She had apparently grown less confident about the claim by the time she published Origins of Poe's Critical Theory (University of Iowa Humanistic Studies, 1925) as she makes only a very minor mention of the matter, in a footnote.

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Reading and Reference Texts:

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“The Atlantis” — reading copy

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Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

Text-01 — “The Atlantis” — 1838, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02) (because the author is unknown, it is impractical to speculate further about manuscripts.)
Text-02 — “The Atlantis, a Southern World — or a wonderful Continent discovered, by Peter Prospero, L.L.D.; M.A., P.S.” — September 1838 - June 1839 - American Museum (Baltimore, MD)
- “The Atlantis, a Southern World [part I - chapters I-V]” — September 1838
- “The Atlantis, a Southern World [part II - chapters VI-VIII]” — October 1838
- “The Atlantis, a Southern World [part III - chapters IX-X]” — November 1838
- “The Atlantis, a Southern World [part IV - chapter XI-XIII]” — December 1838
- “The Atlantis, a Southern World [part V - chapter XIV]” — January 1839
- “The Atlantis, a Southern World [part VI - chapter XV]” — June 1839

Reprints:

“The Atlantis” — 1969 — The Man Who Called Himself Poe, ed. Sam Moskowitz (New York: Doubleday & Co.) pp. 205-229 (reprints the first four chapters) (from Text-02)

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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.
Quinn, Arthur Hobson, Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography (New York: D. Appleton, Co.), 1941.

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Anonymous [Peter Prospero] — “The Atlantis”

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