THE POEMS OF COLLECTED AND EDITED, WITH A CRIT ICAL INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY STONE & KIMBALL COPYRIGHT, 1907, BY DUFFIELD & COMPANY Published, September, 1907 11-3-43 PREFACE THE text of the poems here adopted is that of the Lorimer Graham copy of the edition of 1845, revised by marginal corrections in Poe's hand. Inasmuch as Poe revised his poems repeatedly and with great care, and seldom returned to an earlier reading, the claim of his latest revision to be accepted as the authorized text seems to the Editors irresistible. poems not included in the edition of 1845, the latest text published in Poe's lifetime, or, where an earlier text is wanting or was revised, the text of Griswold, has been adopted. For All variant readings have been given in the NOTES. The Editors have thought this desirable partly because there is no such illustration in literature of the elaboration of poetry through longcontinued and minute verbal processes, and partly because so large a portion of the verse written by Poe perished in those processes. It is believed that the view of the printed sources, here given, is complete; and to what they afford are added the variants of some early MSS., consisting of a large part of |