Essential anthology of Poe's critical works reviews works by Dickens, Hawthorne, many others. IncludesTheory of Poetry ("The Philosophy of Composition," "The Rationale of Verse," "The Poetic Principle"). Introduction.
This essential anthology of Poe's critical works features items from theSouthern Literary Messenger, Graham's Magazine, and other periodicals, reviewing works by Dickens, Hawthorne, Cooper, and many others. TheTheory of Poetry — consisting of "The Philosophy of Composition," "The Rationale of Verse," and "The Poetic Principle" — appears as well. Introduction.
CONTENTS
Beyond Originality: Edgar Allan Poe the Critic
REVIEW Theodore S. Fay, Norman Leslie
REVIEW Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay, and other Poems Fitz-Greene Halleck, Alnwick Castle, with other Poems
REVIEW James K. Paulding, Slavery in the United States William Drayton, The South Vindicated from the Treason and Fanaticism of the Northern Abolitionists
REVIEW Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, and other Tales and Master Humphrey's Clock
REVIEW Lambert A. Wilmer, The Quacks ofHelicon: A Satire
Exordium to Critical Notices
REVIEW Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales
REVIEW Rufus W. Griswold, The Poets and Poetry ofAmerica
Prospectus of The Stylus
REVIEW James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte
EXCERPT ''The Little Longfellow War"
The Philosophy of Composition
EXCERPTS FROM "THE LITERATI OF NEW YORK CITY Some Honest Opinions Thomas Dunn English Sarah Margaret Fuller Lydia M. Child
The Rationale ofVerse
REVIEW James Russell Lowell, A Fable for the Critics
Marginalia
The Poetic Principle