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Essays and reviews

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
Print Book, English, ©1984
Literary Classics of the U.S. : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press, New York, N.Y., ©1984
Essay
1544 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9780940450196, 9780521263429, 0940450194, 0521263425
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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
"G.R. Thompson wrote the notes and selected the texts for this volume"--Preliminary page
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