The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe

authoritative texts, backgrounds and contexts, criticism

Paperback, 962 pages

English language

Published Nov. 9, 2004 by W.W. Norton & Co..

ISBN:
978-0-393-97285-6
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OCLC Number:
778939246

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Enormously popular and widely admired, Edgar Allan Poe occupies an extraordinary place in American literature. Technically skillful and spiritually haunting, Poe's body of work poems, tales, a novel, and essays—awakens readers to the darker side of humanity. This Norton Critical Edition includes Poe's most important writing, introduced, annotated, and edited by leading Poe scholar G. R. Thompson.

"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes fifty-seven judiciously chosen documents that illuminate Poe's short but prolific career, among them Poe's reviews, prefaces, and related correspondence as well as thematic pieces dealing with Transcendentalism and alternative Romanticism, psychological science, sensation fiction, and slavery and the South.

Fourteen critical essays address the major themes and genres of Poe's work. Among the contributors are Richard Wilbur, Grace Farrell, Barton Levi St. Armand, J. Gerald Kennedy, and John T. Irwin. A Selected Bibliography and an Index to Works and First Lines of Poems are also included. --back cover

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Subjects

  • Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • Fantasy literature, American
  • Fantasy literature, American -- History and criticism