Selections from the critical writings of Edgar Allan Poe
By: edited, with an introd. and notes, by F.C. Prescott ; new pref. by J. Lesley Dameron ; new introd. by Eric W. Carlson.
Contributors: Prescott, Frederick Clarke, 1871-1957.
Series: English-readings.
Publisher: Gordian Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Aesthetics; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Second edition."
Reprint of the 1909 ed. published by Holt, New York, in series: English-readings.
Table of contents: title: Letter to B; title: *; title: -.; title: Drake's Culprit fay.; title: Bryant's Poems.; title: Moore's Alciphron.; title: Exordium.; title: Longfellow's Ballads.; title: Hawthorne's Twice told tales.; title: N.P. Willis.; title: The American drama.; title: Preface to the Poems.; title: The philosophy of composition.; title: The rationale of verse.; title: The poetic principle.; title: Marginalia.