Critical theory
Subtitle: the major documents
By: Edgar Allen Poe ; edited with introduction, notes, and textual variants by Stuart Levine and Susan F. Levine.
Contributors: Levine, Stuart.; Levine, Susan F.
Publisher: University of Illinois
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780252031236
Subjects: Poe, Edgar Allan, -- 1809-1849 -- Knowledge -- Literature -- Sources; Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Criticism; Authorship; Poetics
Genres: Sources.
Notes: A collection of Poe's statements on the theory of writing and the theory of criticism.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: Letter to B; title: Prospectuses for "The Penn" and "The stylus"; title: Exordium; title: Preface to the poems (1845); title: The philosophy of composition; title: The rationale of verse; title: Notes upon English verse; title: The poetic principle.