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This slight poem has been publicly known since 1941, and was accepted by Thomas Ollive Mabbott as a genuine composition by Poe. An anonymous Italian blogger, however, conclusively documented in 2011 that the poem is actually something Poe has borrowed from Horace Smith, and perhaps indirectly as the poem was printed as a song “To Miss A. E. Hall” in Baltimore in 1826. The manuscript of this poem was traditionally ascribed to Poe by the family that owned the album, and it does indeed resemble Poe's hand about the period designated. Whatever the precise circumstances, Poe has merely adapted a poem by someone else; this item, therefore, has now been reclassified as rejected. For further details, see Enrico Brandoli, “Two Stanzas for Octavia” (listed in the bibliography, below).
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[S:0 - JAS] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Poems - To Octavia