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edgar allan poe

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The most comprehensive and authoritative collection of Poe’s poetry and tales was edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1898-1968). Although some questions were raised in regard to Mabbott’s selection of copy-texts, the edition has long been ensconced as a standard reference for Poe scholarship. Mabbott seems to have been preparing to publish a complete collection of Poe’s works for over forty years, beginning about 1923. Originally, it was referred to as the Columbia Poe because he expected it to be published by Columbia University Press. (TOM had been been an undergraduate student at Columbia, and continued his studies there, receiving a Master of Arts in 1921 and a PhD. in 1923.) By 1958, the intended publisher has switched to Harvard University Press. (A contract for the first volume was signed on May 12, 1958. A contract for volumes II and III was signed on March 7, 1973.)

TOM, as he was widely known (playfully signifying both his initials and the casual form of his first name), retired from Hunter College in 1966, with the expectation of at last being able to focus on completing the edition. While preparing the first volume for publication, however, he was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, and he died on May 15, 1968. Even through his illness, he was able to proof more than half of the galleys for the volume of poetry, and the rest were proofed by his wife (Maureen Cobb Mabbott), by the Harvard University Press editor (Eleanor Kewer), and several of TOM’s assistants, including George Egon Hatvary and Patricia Edwards Clyne. Mrs. Mabbott spent nearly another decade refining his notes and preparing the two volumes of the Tales and Sketches, with the help of several editorial assistants. The remainder of Mabbott’s research material was then made available to Burton R. Pollin, to continue the edition, which proceeded to include another five volumes, but still remained uncompleted at the time of Dr. Pollin’s death in 2009. (Pollin’s edition was initially published by Twayne and subsequently by Gordian Press, under the series title of The Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe.)

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820,03/ 1551

Publisher

london : wordsworth classics., 2009

Collation

p 783

Language

العربية

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-84022-172-5

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820,03/ 1551

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Edition

ط 1

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الأدب

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