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1849-11-22

Annabel Lee — The Mountain Sentinel, 1849-11-22

Posthumous newspaper printing of Annabel Lee with its introductory notice, page 4, column 1. All six stanzas included.

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Evidence of the poem’s posthumous circulation and contemporary reception. The introductory claim that it was Poe’s last poem is the newspaper’s claim, not an independently established fact.

Date: 1849-11-22
Credits: Edgar Allan Poe (poem author); unsigned newspaper introduction
Publisher: The Mountain Sentinel
Where to find it: 1 original newspaper page; Image PDF: 1 page; Text PDF: 2 pages
Reference collection: Library of Congress, Chronicling America

AI-assisted transcription visually checked by Codex against every line of the poem and introductory notice; no separate human proofread. Line wraps, spacing, type emphasis and quotation marks regularized; edition wording retained. Scan is authoritative for typography and faint punctuation. Printer overflow words (love; me dreams) are restored to their reading positions; pointing-hand ornament described by omission from plain text.

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AI-assisted transcription visually checked by Codex against every line of the poem and introductory notice; no separate human proofread. Line wraps, spacing, type emphasis and quotation marks regularized; edition wording retained. Scan is authoritative for typography and faint punctuation. Printer overflow words (love; me dreams) are restored to their reading positions; pointing-hand ornament described by omission from plain text.

PDF · 1.5 MB · 1

Original scan — full newspaper page

Unmodified received PDF preserved; acquisition date unknown.

PDF · 6.4 MB · 1

Text PDF

AI-assisted transcription visually checked by Codex against every line of the poem and introductory notice; no separate human proofread. Line wraps, spacing, type emphasis and quotation marks regularized; edition wording retained. Scan is authoritative for typography and faint punctuation. Printer overflow words (love; me dreams) are restored to their reading positions; pointing-hand ornament described by omission from plain text.

PDF · 0.0 MB · 2

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Poe, Edgar Allan. “Annabel Lee.” The Mountain Sentinel, 1849-11-22, p. 4, col. 1. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.

Public domain US newspaper published in 1849. Library of Congress Chronicling America rights statement reviewed.

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