"The Premature Burial"
"Compare | to Columbian | Mag. I, 36"
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Details
Title
"Compare | to Columbian | Mag. I, 36"
3 images
3 images
Creator
Seba Smith
Contributor
Thomas Ollive Mabbott, editorial assistants
Format
Photocopy of bound periodical
Description
Photocopy of pages from the January 1844 issue of New York's The Rover, in which appears Seba Smith's poem on "The Life-Preserving Coffin." As Poe completed "The Premature Burial" in May and first published it in July, Smith's poem might have influenced Poe's tale. See note 15 in Mabbott's edition of the tale.
Note 15 says that the poem appeared in New York's Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine of January 1844. The note in green ink in the upper left margin of the first photocopied page says to "Compare to Columbian Mag" and the manuscript note titling the photocopy clearly indicates "The Rover, vol. II, 1844." The manuscript note in blue ink on the blank third image also says: "Seba Smith's poem in Rover."
Note 15 says that the poem appeared in New York's Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine of January 1844. The note in green ink in the upper left margin of the first photocopied page says to "Compare to Columbian Mag" and the manuscript note titling the photocopy clearly indicates "The Rover, vol. II, 1844." The manuscript note in blue ink on the blank third image also says: "Seba Smith's poem in Rover."
Relation
Thomas Ollive Mabbott's Research Files for the Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Source
Papers of Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Special Collections, University of Iowa Libraries; “The Premature Burial,” in Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. III: Tales and Sketches, ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978), 953-972.
Date
January 1844