PREFACE: The largest, fastest growing, and most interesting colection of Poe etexts is currently available at the Poe Society of Baltimore. These etexts are encoded in HTML and often contain the pagination of original 19th century magazine editions. Unfortunately this census was prepared before most additions were made to the Baltimore site, and therefore the listing here of the Baltimore Poe site will be incomplete -- until the next major revision of this census appears
The second largest Poe site is at UM-StL, but contains neither HTML encoding nor pagination. The collections of Poe e-texts at the Virginia ETC and Michigan HTI are relatively small but are encoded in HTML and SGML and may be searched as part of the corpus of modern literature. There are excellent textual notes in Representative Poetry Online at Toronto.
Lately several historic Poe editions have become available in e-text form: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1837-38) at the Poe Society of Baltimore, the Tales (1845) at A Digitized Library of Southern Literature (UNC), Eureka (1848) at the Poe Society of Baltimore, and the Collected Poetry (1911, ed. J. H. Whitty) at the American Verse Collection (Michigan).
| T | UM-StL [1] |
|---|---|
| A | Internet Wiretap |
| B | OTA: Oxford Text Archive |
| C | ETC: Electronic Text Center (Virginia) |
| D | HTI: Humanities Text Initiative (Michigan) [2] |
| G | Project Gutenberg |
| H | Chadwyck-Healey/Virginia (CD-ROM in preparation) |
| P | Poe Society of Baltimore |
| R | Representative Poetry Online (Toronto) |
| S | A Digitized Library of Southern Literature (UNC) |
1. The UM-St. Louis Poe etext archive is similar in its contents to the former Virginia Tech Eris site (discontinued in 1998).
2. The University of Michigan HTI also contains in its American Verse Collection the J. H. Whitty edition of Poe's Collected Poetry (1911), which adds five (5) poems to the fifty-one (51) already online at UM-StL and elsewhere: "Impromptu to Kate Carol," "Latin Hymn," "Oh Tempora! Oh Mores," "Song of Triumph," and "Spiritual Song."
Elsewhere at the University of Michigan, The Making of America project contains a complete searchable run of the Southern Literary Messenger.
| The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1837-38) | HPT |
|---|---|
| Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840) | H |
| Tales (1845) | HS |
| The Raven and Other Poems (1845) | -- |
| Eureka(1848) | P |
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| "The Journal of Julius Rodman" (1840) | P |
| "Marginalia" (1844-1849) | P |
| "The Literati of New York" (1846) | P |
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| Collected Poems. ed. J. H. Whitty (1911) | D |
| Letters, ed. John Ostrom (1948) | P |
| Burton R. Pollin, Poe: Creator of Words (1973...1994) | P |
Individual Works: KEY: T A B C D G R S Al Aaraaf T Alone T American Drama T Angel of Odd T An Enigma T Annabel Lee T B C D R Assignation T A C D Balloon Hoax T A C D Bells T Berenice T A C D Black Cat T A C D S Bon-bon T Bridal Ballad T Bryant T Business Man T Cask of Amontillado T A B C D G City in the Sea T R Coliseum T Colloquy of Monos & Una T A C D S Conqueror Worm T Conversation of Eiros T A C D S Criticism T Descent Maelstrom T A B C D S Devil In Belfry T Dickens review T Diddling T Domain of Arnheim T A C D Drake-Halleck T Dream, A T R Dream Within Dream T R Dreamland T Dreams T Duc De L'omlette T Eldorado T Eleonora T A C D Elizabeth T Eulalie T Evening Star T Exordium T Facts in Case M. Valdemar T Fairy-land T Fall of the House Usher T A B C G S For Annie T R Four Beasts In One T Gold-Bug T A B C S Hans Phaall T Happiest Day T Haunted Palace T Hawthorne T Hop-Frog T A C D How To Write a Blackwood T Hymn T Imp of Perverse T A C D Island of Fay T A C D Israfel T King Pest T A C D Lake, The. To -- T Landor's Cottage T A C D Landscape Garden T Lenore T Letter to B- T Ligeia T B C Lionizing T S Literary Life T Longfellow T Loss Of Breath T Man of the Crowd T A C D S Man Was Used Up T Marginalia T Marginalia: BJ:4Oct45 T Marginalia: DR:11/44 T Marginalia: DR:12/44 T Marginalia: DR:4/46 T Marginalia: GLB:9/45 T Marginalia: GR:3/46 T Marginalia: GR:1/48 T Marginalia: SLM:4/49 T Marginalia: SLM:6/49 T Masque of the Red Death T G Mellonta Tauta T A B C D Mesmeric Revelation T S Metzengerstein T Morella T Morning on Wissahiccon T Ms. Found In Bottle T Murders in Rue Morgue T A B C D S Mystery of Marie Roget T A B C D S Mystification T Never Bet the Devil T Oblong Box T Oval Portrait T Philo. of Composition T Pit and the Pendulum T A B C D Poetic Principle T Power Of Words T Predicament, A T Premature Burial T Purloined Letter T A B C D S Quacks of Helicon T Rationale of Verse T Raven (Preface) T Raven, The T G Romance T Scenes from Politian T Serenade T Shadow - A Parable T Silence - A Fable T Sleeper T Some Words with Mummy T Song T Sonnet - Silence T Sonnet - To Science T Sonnet - To Zante T Spectacles T A B C D Sphinx T Spirits of the Dead T Stanzas T System of Dr. Tarr T Tale of Jerusalem T Tale of Ragged Mts. T A C D Tamerlane T Tell Tale Heart T A B C D Thou Art the Man T A B C D Thousand-second Tale T Three Sundays in a Week T To -- T To F-- T To F--s S. O--d T To Helen T R To -- -- T To M -- T To M.L.S. T To My Mother T To One In Paradise T To River -- T Ulalame T R Valentine, A T Valley Of Unrest T Von Kempelen T Why the Little Frenchman T William Wilson T A B C D X-ing A Paragrab T KEY: T A B C D G R S
| T | UM-StL |
|---|---|
| A | Internet Wiretap |
| B | OTA: Oxford Text Archive |
| C | ETC: Electronic Text Center (Virginia) |
| D | HTI: Humanities Text Initiative (Michigan) |
| G | Project Gutenberg |
| H | Chadwyck-Healey/Virginia (CD-ROM in preparation) |
| P | Poe Society of Baltimore (incomplete list) |
| R | Representative Poetry Online (Toronto) |
| S | A Digitized Library of Southern Literature(UNC) |
Please send comments to Heyward Ehrlich at ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu.
Last revised May 4, 1999.