Edgar Allan Poe : selected poetry, tales, and essays, authoritative texts with essays on three critical controversies /
Poe, Edgar Allan,1809-1849.
Gardner, Jared,editor.
Hewitt, Elizabeth,editor.
pt. 1. Life of Edgar Allan Poe -- POETRY: Tamerlane -- The Sleeper -- The City in the Sea -- To Helen -- Lenore -- Israfel -- The Raven -- To Marie Louise -- Annabel Lee -- For Annie -- TALES: Metzengerstein -- Berenice -- Ligeia -- How to write a Blackwood article -- The man that was used up -- The fall of the house of Usher -- William Wilson -- The man of the crowd -- The murders in the Rue Morgue -- The oval portrait -- The pit and the pendulum -- The tell-tale heart -- The black cat -- The purloined letter -- The imp of the perverse -- The cask of amontillado -- Hop-frog -- ESSAYS: Some secrets of the magazine prison-house -- The philosophy of composition -- pt. 2. Why study critical controversies about the work of Edgar Allan Poe? -- The controversy over aesthetics and the literary marketplace; or, Is Poe a literary genius or a pop-culture hack? -- The controversy over race; or, what did Poe have to say about African Americans and slavery? -- The controversy over gender and sexuality; or, why is Poe so obsessed with dead women? -- How to write about critical controversy over the work of Edgar Allan Poe.
Includes bibliographical references.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849