Text-02a — “Stanzas [To F. S. O.]” — 1845 — [Speculated
faircopy manuscript Poe prepared for publication. This manuscript has not survived, but this version is
presumably recorded in Text-02b.]
“Stanzas” — November 21, 1915 — J. H. Whitty, “New Poe Poems and
Manuscripts Found,” New York Sun — [In this article, Whitty first attibutes the poem to Poe.
This article also attributes to Poe a poem called “Life's Vital Stream,” which has since been
identified as a copy Poe made of a poem by someone else. The article was also printed, on the same date, in the
Baltimore American.]
“Stanzas” — January 27, 1916 — J. H. Whitty, “Discoveries in the
Uncollected Poems of Edgar Allan Poe,” New York Nation (pp. 105-106) — (a revision of the
previous article)
Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:
“Stanzas” — 1917
— The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co (pp. 148-149,
and 320) — [This poem was added to the second edition, and does not appear in the first edition of 1911.
— The second edition was published about May 1917.]
“Stanzas” — 1917
— The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (p. 145, and p. 303,
although in the first issue of this edition the poem appears on p. 144.)
“Stanzas” — 1969
— The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press
of Harvard University Press (1:385-386)
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Comparative and Study Texts:
Instream Comparative and Study Texts:
None (There is only the one authorized version. The only difference between scholarly
printings is whether or not they honor the indentation of lines.)
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Associated Material and Special Versions:
Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:
None.
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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.
Hindin, Michael, “Poe's Debt to Wordworth: A Reading of
‘Stanzas’,” Studies in Romanticism, 1969, 8:109-120
Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol 1
Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.
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