The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe (Norton Critical Editions)

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Summary

In this NortonCritical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, andedited each text. 'œBackgrounds and Contexts' includes fifty-seven carefully chosendocuments that illuminate Poe's prolific but short career, among themreviews, prefaces, and correspondence by Poe as well as thematic piecesdealing with Transcendentalism and alternative romanticism, sciences ofthe mind, sensation fiction, and the South and slavery. Fourteen judiciously selected critical essays address Poe's poetry,fiction, politics, and psychology. Contributors include Floyd Stovall,Robert C. McLean, Richard Wilbur, James W. Gargano, Joseph J.Moldenhauer, Paul John Eakin, Grace Farrell, Liahna Klenman Babener,Barton Levi St. Armand, Joseph N. Riddel, J. Gerald Kennedy, JohnCarlos Rowe, Terence Whalen, and John T. Irwin. A Selected Bibliography is also included.

Edgar A. Poe: An American Life (1809-1849)

xiii

A Note on the Texts and Annotations

xlix

Acknowledgments

liii

The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe

POEMS

(74)

Tamerlane

(7)

Dreams

(1)

Spirits of the Dead

(1)

Evening Star

(1)

Imitation

(1)

[Stanzas]

(1)

A Dream

(1)

[The Happiest Day]

(1)

The Lake-To-

(1)

Sonnet-To Science

(1)

Al Aaraaf

(20)

Introduction

(1)

Fairy-Land [1]

(2)

Fairy Land [2]

(1)

[Alone]

(1)

To Helen

(1)

Israfel

(1)

The Sleeper

(2)

The Valley of Unrest

(1)

The City in the Sea

(2)

The Coliseum

(2)

Sonnet-Silence

(1)

Dream-Land

(1)

The Raven

(4)

Ulalume-A Ballad

(4)

The Bells

(3)

To Helen

(2)

A Dream within a Dream

(1)

For Annie

(3)

Eldorado

(1)

Annabel Lee

(2)

TALES AND SKETCHES

(352)

Metzengerstein

(8)

Loss of Breath

(17)

Ms. Found in a Bottle

106

(10)

The Assignation

116

(12)

Some Passages in the Life of a Lion [Lionizing]

128

(6)

Shadow-A Parable

134

(2)

Silence.-A Fable

136

(4)

Berenice

140

(8)

King Pest

148

(11)

Ligeia

159

(14)

How to Write a Blackwood Article

173

(17)

A Predicament

183

(7)

The Man That Was Used Up

190

(9)

The Fall of the House of Usher

199

(17)

William Wilson

216

(16)

The Man of the Crowd

232

(7)

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

239

(27)

A Descent into the Maelström

266

(13)

The Colloquy of Monos and Una

279

(7)

Never Bet the Devil Your Head

286

(9)

The Oval Portrait

295

(4)

The Masque of the Red Death

299

(5)

The Pit and the Pendulum

304

(12)

The Tell-Tale Heart

316

(5)

The Gold-Bug

321

(27)

The Black Cat

348

(8)

The Premature Burial

356

(11)

The Purloined Letter

367

(15)

Some Words with a Mummy

382

(16)

The Power of Words

398

(3)

The Imp of the Perverse

401

(6)

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

407

(8)

The Cask of Amontillado

415

(6)

Hop-Frog; or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs

421

(8)

THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM

429

(135)

FROM EUREKA: AN ESSAY ON THE MATERIAL AND SPIRFFUAL UNIVERSE

564

(23)

Backgrounds and Contexts

LETTERS, PREFACES, ESSAYS, AND REVIEWS

587

(130)

To John Allan (Letter 13, May 29, 1829)

587

(1)

Letter to B-

588

(6)

To Joseph T. and Edwin Buckingham (Letter 37, May 4, 1833)

594

(1)

The Folio Club

595

(1)

To Thomas W. White (Letter 42, April 30, 1835)

596

(2)

From Theodore S. Fay [Review of Norman Leslie]

598

(3)

From Morris Mattson [Review of Paul Ulric]

601

(1)

John P. Kennedy to Poe (February 9, 1836)

602

(1)

To John P. Kennedy (Letter 57, February 11, 1836)

603

(1)

J.K. Paulding to T.W. White (March 3, 1836)

603

(1)

From Joseph Rodman Drake-Fitz-Greene Halleck [Review of The Culprit Fay and Alnwick Castle]

604

(7)

To Harrison Hall (Letter 74, September 2, 1836)

611

(1)

From Robert M. Bird [Review of Sheppard Lee]

612

(1)

From Baron de la Motte Fouqué [Review of Undine]

613

(3)

To Philip P. Cooke (Letter 82, September 21, 1839)

616

(1)

From Thomas Moore [Review of Alciphron]

617

(3)

Preface (Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque-1840)

620

(1)

Prospectus of The Penn Magazine

621

(2)

To William E. Burton (Letter 93, June 1, 1840)

623

(1)

From Edward Lytton Bulwer [Review of Night and Morning]

624

(2)

From Lambert A. Wilmer [Review of The Quacks of Helicon]

626

(6)

Exordium to Critical Notices

632

(4)

From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Review of Ballads and Other Poems]

636

(7)

Nathaniel Hawthorne [Review of Twice-Told Tales] April 1842

643

(7)

May 1842

645

(5)

To Joseph Evans Snodgrass (Letter 137, June 4, 1842)

650

(1)

To James R. Lowell (Letter 179, July 2, 1844)

651

(2)

From Marginalia

653

(3)

James Russell Lowell

From Our Contributors. No. XVII. Edgar Allan Poe

656

(6)

From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Review of Poems on Slavery]

662

(5)

From Thomas Hood [Review of Prose and Verse]

667

(3)

[Review of Poe's Tales]

670

(5)

Preface (The Raven and Other Poems)

675

(1)

The Philosophy of Composition

675

(9)

To Philip P. Cooke (Letter 240, August 9, 1846)

684

(1)

Nathaniel Hawthorne [Review of Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse]

685

(8)

From James Russell Lowell [Review of A Fable for the Critics]

693

(5)

From The Poetic Principle

698

(6)

[Walter G. Bowen]

A Reviewer Reviewed

704

(6)

George R. Graham

From The Late Edgar Allan Poe

710

(2)

Charles Baudelaire

From Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and His Works

712

(3)

Walt Whitman

From Edgar Poe's Significance

715

(2)

TRANSCENDENTALISM AM) ALTERNATIVE ROMANTICISM

717

(25)

Frederic Henry Hedge

[On Immanuel Kant and German Transcendentalism]

720

(7)

Friedrich Schlegel

Fragments

727

(4)

From Lyceum

727

(1)

From Athenaeum

728

(3)

From Dialogue on Poetry

731

(1)

August Wilhelm Schlegel

Dramatic Lectures

732

(6)

From Lecture III

733

(1)

From Lecture XI

734

(2)

From Lecture XVII

736

(1)

From Lecture XXIII

736

(2)

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Preschool for Aesthetics

738

(5)

From The Seventh Program. On Humoristic Poetry

738

(4)

SCIENCES OF THE MIND

742

(12)

Johann G. Spurzheim

The Physiognomical System of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim

743

(2)

From VI. Organ of the Propensity to Destroy, or of Destructiveness

743

(2)

Orson S. Fowler

Fowler's Practical Phrenology

745

(3)

From 21. Ideality

746

(1)

Phrenological Chart

747

Thomas C. Upham

From Outlines of Imperfection and Disordered Action

748

(6)

POPULAR FICTION: BLACKWOODS AND TILE SENSATION TALE

754

(13)

Anonymous

Extracts from Gosschen's Diary

755

(4)

Anonymous

The Buried Alive

759

(3)

William Maginn

The Man in the Bell

762

(5)

THE SOUTH AND SLAVERY

767

(18)

James E. Heath

Southern Literature

768

(4)

[Nathaniel Beverley Tucker]

Slavery

772

(6)

Poe

To Beverley Tucker (Letter 62, May 2, 1836)

778

(1)

J.V. Ridgely

The Authorship of the "Paulding- Drayton Review"

779

(5)

Poe To Joseph Evans Snodgrass (Letter 95, June 17, 1840)

784

(1)

Criticism

785

(168)

Floyd Stovall

From Poe's Debt to Coleridge

789

(9)

Robert Colin McLean

From Poetic Theory

798

(9)

Richard Wilbur

From The House of Poe

807

(16)

James W. Gargano

The Question of Poe's Narrators

823

(6)

Joseph J. Moldenhauer

From Murder as a Fine Art: Basic Connections between Poe's Aesthetics, Psychology, and Moral Vision

829

(15)

Paul John Eakin

From Poe's Sense of an Ending

844

(12)

Grace Farrell

The Quest of Arthur Gordon Pym

856

(7)

Liahna Armstrong

The Shadow's Shadow: The Motif of the Double in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter"

863

(10)

Barton Levi St. Armand

From The "Mysteries" of Edgar Poe: The Quest for a Monomyth in Gothic Literature

873

(11)

Joseph N. Riddel

From The "Crypt" of Edgar Poe

884

(12)

J. Gerald Kennedy

From Phantasms of Death in Poe's Fiction

896

(8)

John Carlos Rowe

From Antebellum Slavery and Modern Criticism: Edgar Allan Poe's Pym and "The Purloined Letter"

904

(17)

Terence Whalen

From Average Racism: Poe, Slavery, and the Wages of Literary Nationalism

921

(20)

John T. Irwin

Detective Fiction as High Art: Lacan, Derrida, and Johnson on "The Purloined Letter"

941

(12)

Selected Bibliography

953

(8)

Index

961

The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe (Norton Critical Editions)

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