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The Poetic Principle

Edgar Allan Poe

First published September 1850
Type Essay

  • Delivered as a lecture on December 20, 1848 for the Franklin Lyceum at Howard's Hall in Providence, Rhode Island; manuscript later stolen.
  • First published in the August 31, 1850 Home Journal from the advance sheets of The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. III, the first official publication in September, 1850.
  • See the notes here and this OCR scan.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 1850 The Literati: Some Honest Opinions About Autorial Merits and Demerits J. S. Redfield Nonfiction 1
1853 The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe J. S. Redfield Collection vii|2006
1856 The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe J. S. Redfield Collection vii|2006
1880 Select Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Poetical and Prose W. J. Widdleton Collection 641
1889 The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales and Prose Writings Walter Scott Collection 239
1905 Cover The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 9 Croscup & Holby Collection
1910 Essays English and American P. F. Collier & Son Nonfiction 371
1914 Essays and Stories George Bell & Sons Collection 1
1927 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in One Volume: Poems, Tales, Essays, Criticisms with New Notes Walter J. Black, Inc. Collection 766
1931 The Best Known Works of Edgar Allan Poe in One Volume: Poems, Tales, Essays, Criticisms Blue Ribbon Books Collection 766
1938 Cover The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Modern Library Collection 889
1951 Cover Selected Poetry and Prose of Edgar Allan Poe Modern Library Collection 383
1956 Cover Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe Houghton Mifflin Collection 464
1973 Gedichte / Drama / Essays / Marginalien Walter Collection 673
September 1975 Cover The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Vintage Books Collection 889
1992 Cover The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Modern Library Collection 889
January 1997 Cover Edgar Allan Poe J. M. Dent Collection 93
April 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 5 (Raven Edition) Project Gutenberg Collection 167
November 2013 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 5 (Raven Edition) LibriVox Collection 167
February 2019 Cover O corvo Companhia das Letras Collection
November 2020 Cover The Complete Harvard Classics Moon Classics Omnibus |28.371