| Description |
1544 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The Library of America ; 20 |
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Library of America ; 20.
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| Note |
"G.R. Thompson wrote the notes and selected the texts for this volume"--Preliminary page. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Theory of poetry -- Reviews of British and continental authors -- Reviews of American authors and American literature -- Magazines and criticism -- The literary and social scene -- Articles and marginalia. |
| Summary |
This collection of Poe's writings includes his thoughts on poetry; reviews he wrote on many other authors, British, American, and Continental; his views of the literary world he moved in; essays, etc. A valuable tool for anyone studying Poe and his work. |
| Note |
Includes reviews of works by British and Continental writers William Harrison Ainsworth, Eaton Stannard Barrett, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edward Lytton Bulwer, Henry F. Chorley, Henry Cockton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, J.F. Dalton, Daniel Defoe, Charles Disckes, Henry Duncan, Euripides, Baron de la Motte FouquéWilliam Godwin, S.C. Hall, William Hazlitt, Thomas Hood, R.H. Horne, Charles James Lever ("Harry Lorrequer"), Thomas Babington Macaulay, Frederick Marryatt, Mrs. L. Miles, Thomas Moore, Robert Southey, Sarah Stickney (Mrs. Sara Stickney Ellis), Samuel Warren; and American writers Robert M. Bird, John G.C. Brainard, William Cullen Bryant, William Ellery Channing, James Fenimore Cooper, Rufus Dawes, Joseph Rodman Drake & Fitz-Greene Halleck, Theodore S. Fay, Rufus W. Griswold, Francis L. Hawks, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joel T. Headley, Henry B. Hirst, Joseph Holt Ingraham, Washington Irving, John Pendleton Kennedy, S. Anna Lewis, Francis Lieber, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, William W. Lord, James Russell Lowell, Cornelius Mathews, Morris Mattson, Susan Rigby Morgan, Laughton Osborn, Edgar Allan Poe, L.H. Sigourney with H.F. Gould and E.F. Ellet, William Gilmore Simms, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Seba Smith, John L. Stephens, William Leete Stone, Beverly Tucker, Robert Walsh, Robert M. Walsh, Thomas Ward, and Lambert A. Wilmer. |
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Bryant, William Cullen.
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Cooper, James Fenimore.
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
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Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
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Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.
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Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Books -- Reviews.
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Poetry -- Study and teaching.
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Authors, American.
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Books. (OCoLC)fst00836401
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Literature -- Theory, etc.
(OCoLC)fst01353577
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
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| Genre/Form |
Essays (OCoLC)fst01919922
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Reviews. (OCoLC)fst01423760
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Essays.
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Reviews.
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| Added Author |
Writer of added text Thompson, Gary Richard, 1937-
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. 1984
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Theory of poetry.
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Reviews of British and continental authors.
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Reviews of American authors and American literature.
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Literary and social scene.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Selections. 1984. Essays and reviews. New York, N.Y. : Literary Classics of the U.S. : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press, ©1984 (OCoLC)559540534 |
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Online version: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Selections. 1984. Essays and reviews. New York, N.Y. : Literary Classics of the U.S. : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press, ©1984 (OCoLC)607853684 |
| ISBN |
0940450194 |
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9780940450196 |
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0940459194 |
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0521263425 |
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9780521263429 |
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