Essays and ReviewsLiterary Classics of the U.S., 1984 - 1544 oldal This is the most complete one-volume edition of Poe's essays and reviews ever published. Here are all his major writings on the theory of poetry, the art of fiction, and the duties of a critic: "The Rationale of Verse," "The Philosophy of Composition," "The Poetic Principle," and "About Critics and Criticism." Articulating Poe's passion for technical proficiency and his theory of poetic method, these essays show why he so strongly influenced the French symbolists toward the end of nineteenth century and, through them, the poetry of T. S. Eliot and Hart Crane. Included in this collection are Poe's reviews and candid opinions of the leading literary figures of his day: Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Percy Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Margaret Fuller, among others. Here also are reviews of long-forgotten writers, reviews that are interesting not so much for their subjects as for Poe's unflinching and witty candor. Many of his then controversial judgments have been vindicated by time. Poe particularly relished his prolonged critical war with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Professor of Modern Languages at Harvard and America's most respected poet of the nineteenth century, whom he accused of conventionality and plagiarism. The skirmishes in this campaign are represented here in full. Poe wrote many articles describing the literary world in which he circulated: "The Literati of New York," the "Editorial Miscellanies" from the Broadway Journal, "Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House," and his long-running series "Marginalia." Also included are a wealth of articles on a wide variety of topics: South Sea exploration, cryptography, drama, geography, music, transcendentalism, phrenology, ancient languages, and modern cities. As a reviewer Poe was direct, discriminating, and feared; as an essayist he was alert to any possibility that in literature there might be found a sense of unity missing from life. This volume restores an essential and often neglected part of our literary heritage. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. |
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... měrely tŎ | mādděn ît ? | These are two dactylic lines in which we find natural feet , ( " Deity , " " mannikin ; " ) feet composed of two words ( “ fancied that , ” “ image a , ” “ merely to , " " madden it ; ” ) fect composed of three ...
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... merely laughed at the Chorus as something superfluous and absurd , urging the folly of enacting passages supposed to be performed in secret in the presence of an assembled crowd , and believing that as it originated in the infancy of ...
... merely laughed at the Chorus as something superfluous and absurd , urging the folly of enacting passages supposed to be performed in secret in the presence of an assembled crowd , and believing that as it originated in the infancy of ...
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... merely the gush- ing forth of a nature too full of blessedness to be silent .. the humblest plant , the simplest insect is each alive with truth ... She sees the world not merely with mortal eyes , but looks within to the pure internal ...
... merely the gush- ing forth of a nature too full of blessedness to be silent .. the humblest plant , the simplest insect is each alive with truth ... She sees the world not merely with mortal eyes , but looks within to the pure internal ...
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LETTER TO B July 1836 | 5 |
THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION April 1846 | 25 |
THE POETIC PRINCIPLE October 1850 | 71 |
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