Literary criticism of Edgar Allan Poe /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 (Author)
Other Authors:	Hough, Robert Lee, 1924- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1965]
Series:	Regents critics series.
Subjects:	Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Knowledge > Communication. Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Criticism and interpretation. Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Littérature > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc. Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849. Communication. Literature > Theory, etc. Poe, Edgar Allan > 1809-1849 Literaturkritik Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc Literary criticism. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Critiques littéraires.
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Table of Contents:

A definition of the nature of poetry
On suggestiveness and precision in poetry and music
On fancy and imagination
On relevant and irrelevant plot
The philosophy of composition
The poetic principle
Marginalia : Genius : three comments ; Genius and art ; Rhyme ; Prosody ; The artist and his work
Wordsworth and Coleridge ["Letter to B---"]
Thomas Moore : the imagination and the mystical in poetry
Dickens
Carlyle
Gibbon's style
Shelley
Leigh Hunt
Macaulay's style
The state of criticism
American critics and criticism
Comment on the American magazine
Longfellow
Simms
Emerson
Hawthorne's Twice-told tales
From "Tale-writing : Nathaniel Hawthorne."