Edgar Allan Poe — “Stanzas”

Reading copy:

• “Stanzas” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “[Untitled]” — 1827 — [There are no known draft manuscripts or scratch notes reflecting the original effort of composition.]
• Text-02 — “[Untitled]” — 1827
  • Text-02a — “[Untitled]” — 1827 — [Speculated faircopy manuscript Poe prepared for publication. This manuscript has not survived, but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02b.]
  • Text-02b — “[Untitled]” — 1827 — TAOP — (Mabbott text A — This is Mabbott's copy-text)

Reprints:

• “[Untitled]” — June 1876 — John H. Ingram, “The Unknown Poetry of Edgar Poe,” Belgravia: A London Illustrated Magazine (London, UK) (29:512-513) (reprinted from the recently discovered copy of TAOP from the British Museum, and thus the first reprint of the poem since 1827) (Ingram's text makes what appear to be editorial adjustments, such as not capitalizing “Earth” and not separating the words “day light,” but does not sustain R. H. Shepherd's charge that Ingram's printed text is “shown to be valueless on account of its inaccuracies.” Ingram did not include the poem in his 1884 edition of the poems published by B. Tauchnitz, nor the 1884 edition of the Tales and Poems published by J. C. Nimmo.)
• “[Untitled]” — June 8, 1876 — John H. Ingram, “Poe's Suppressed Poetry,” New York Graphic, p. 805 (reprinted from Belgravia for June 1876)
• “[Untitled]” — June 21, 1876 — John H. Ingram, “Unknown Poetry of Poe,” Home Journal (New York, NY) (reprinted from Belgravia for June 1876)
• “[Untitled]” — 1884 — Tamerlane and Other Poems, ed. Richard Herne Shepherd, London: George Redway (pp. 50-51)  (Having long been thought lost, a copy of the original Tamerlane and Other Poems of 1827 was discovered in the British Museum and printed in this “second edition.”)
• “In Youth I have known one” — 1888 — The Complete Poetical Works and Essays on Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. John H. Ingram, London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co. (pp. 108-109)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “Stanzas” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:122-123, and p. 224)
• “Stanzas” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:17-18, and 10:153)
• “In Youth Have I Known One with Whom the Earth” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (pp. 124-125, and p. 276)
• “Stanzas” — 1917 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 28-29, and pp. 163-165)
• “Stanzas” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (pp. 19-20, and p. 184)
• “[Stanzas]” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:76-78)
• “Stanzas” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, ed. Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America) (p. 34-35) (reprints Text-02, but with the title assigned by Woodberry and Stedman)

Instream Comparative and Study Texts:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “Stances” — dated 2009, but available in late 2008 — Poèmes d‘Edgar Allan Poe, Paris: Publibook (translation by Jean Hautepierre)

• 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.