Notes
1] Thomas Ollive Mabbott finds Poe's title "in Graham's for October 1848, as the title of a sentimental story by C. A. Washburn which ends, `It was but a dream within a dream'" (Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe [Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969]: I, 451).
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Original text: The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, ed. R. W. Griswold (New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850), II, 40.
First publication date:
1850
Publication date note: (but a rewriting of "Should my early life seem" [1829])
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 2.0.
Recent editing: 2:2002/4/10
Form: couplets and triplets