The Unknown Poe
Publisher: City Lights
Published: 1980
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9780872861107
Copyright date: 1980
Description: An indispensable anthology of brilliant hard-to-find writings by Poe on poetry, the imagination, humor, and the sublime which adds a new dimension to his stature as a speculative thinker and philosopher. Essays (in translation) by Charles Baudelaire Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Valéry, & André Breton shed light on Poe’s relevance within European literary tradition.
Table of contents: title: THE UNKNOWN POE; title: Preface; title: LETTERS; title: POEMS; title: From the Marginalia; title: PROSE, ESSAYS & REVIEWS; title: A Dream .; title: The Imp of the Perverse .; title: Instinct VS Reason— The Black Cat; title: Shelley and the Poetic Abandon .; title: The Flame of Love .; title: The Characters of Shakespeare; title: THE FRENCH VIEW; title: Preface; title: From EDGAR POE: HIS LIFE AND WORKS; title: By Charles BAUDELAIRE .; title: NEW NOTES ON EDGAR POE; title: By Charles BAUDELAIRE; title: From A REBOURS by J. K. HUYSMANS; title: RESPONSES TO INQUIRIES by; title: ON POE from SITUATION DE BAUDELAIRE; title: By Paul VALERY .; title: Stéphane MALLARME; title: SOME MEDALLIONS AND FULL-LENGTH; title: PORTRAITS FROM PORTRAITS OF THE; title: NEXT CENTURY by Stéphane MALLARME .; title: EDGAR POE from ANTHOLOGIE DE; title: L'HUMOUR NOIR by André BRETON