"The Raven"
Welcome to the research file on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." Comprising seventy-five documents, this file is the largest of all of Mabbott's research files. In addition to being the largest file, it represents Mabbott's editorial idiosyncracies more than any other research file among his papers.
Most of the items exhibited in this collection contributed to Mabbott's introduction to the poem, his account of textual variants, and the editorial notes in the Collected Works. To read Mabbott's introduction, list of printings, and notes, click here.
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Details
Title
"The Raven"
Creator
Thomas Ollive Mabbott
Contributor
The University of Iowa Digital Scholarship and Publication Studio; Special Collections, University of Iowa Libraries
Description
Welcome to the research file on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." Comprising seventy-five documents, this file is the largest of all of Mabbott's research files. In addition to being the largest file, it represents Mabbott's editorial idiosyncracies more than any other research file among his papers.
Most of the items exhibited in this collection contributed to Mabbott's introduction to the poem, his account of textual variants, and the editorial notes in the Collected Works. To read Mabbott's introduction, list of printings, and notes, click here.
Most of the items exhibited in this collection contributed to Mabbott's introduction to the poem, his account of textual variants, and the editorial notes in the Collected Works. To read Mabbott's introduction, list of printings, and notes, click here.
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 Raven,” in Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. I: Poems, ed. T.O. Mabbott (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969), 350-374.