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Bloom’s Classic Critical Views edgar allan poe Bloom’s Classic Critical Views Jane austen geoffrey Chaucer Charles dickens ralph Waldo emerson nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville edgar allan poe Walt Whitman Bloom’s Classic Critical Views ed gar all an poe Edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom Sterling professor of the Humanities Yale University Bloom’s Classic Critical Views: Edgar Allan Poe Copyright © 2008 Infobase publishing Introduction © 2008 by Harold Bloom all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For more information contact: Bloom’s literary Criticism an imprint of Infobase publishing 132 West 31st Street new York nY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data edgar allan poe / Harold Bloom. p. cm. — (Bloom’s classic critical views) a selection of important older literary criticism on edgar allan poe Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBn-13: 978-0-7910-9556-0 ISBn-10: 0-7910-9556-8 1. poe, edgar allan, 1809–1849—Criticism and interpretation. I. Bloom, Harold. II. Title: Bloom’s classic critical views : edgar allan poe. pS2638.e324 2007 818’.309—dc22 2007018428 Bloom’s literary Criticism books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk quantities for businesses, associations, institutions, or sales promotions. please call our Special Sales department in new York at (212) 967-8800 or (800) 322-8755. You can find Bloom’s literary Criticism on the World Wide Web at http://www.chelseahouse.com Series design by erika K. arroyo Cover design by Takeshi Takahashi printed in the United States of america Bang eJB 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is printed on acid-free paper. all links and Web addresses were checked and verified to be correct at the time of publication. Because of the dynamic nature of the Web, some addresses and links may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. Contents QQQ Series Introduction ix Introduction by Harold Bloom xi Biography xiii Personal 3 edgar allan poe “alone” (1829) 7 l.a. Wilmer (1843) 8 edgar allan poe (1846) 8 rufus Wilmot griswold (1849) 9 Maria Clemm (1849) 11 nathaniel parker Willis “death of edgar a. poe” (1849) 12 george r. graham “The late edgar allan poe” (1850) 14 Thomas powell “edgar allan poe” (1850) 16 Sarah Helen Whitman (1860) 17 Horace greeley (1868) 18 Maunsell B. Field (1873) 19 algernon Charles Swinburne (1875) 20 John H.B. latrobe “reminiscences of poe” (1877) 21 Susan a.T. Weiss “last days of edgar a. poe” (1878) 22 General 25 James russell lowell “edgar allan poe” (1845) 29 James russell lowell (1848) 36 p. pendleton Cooke “edgar a. poe” (1848) 36 John r. Thompson “The late edgar a. poe” (1849) 42 James Hannay “The life and genius of edgar allan poe” (1852) 43 Charles Baudelaire (1852) 44 vi Contents george gilfillan “edgar poe” (1854) 58 Thomas Holley Chivers (1856) 65 Fyodor M. dostoevski “Three Tales of edgar poe” (1861) 67 Stéphane Mallarmé “le Tombeau d’edgar poe” (1876) 69 richard Henry Horne (1876) 70 Thomas Wentworth Higginson “poe” (1879) 72 Joris-Karl Huysmans (1884) 77 Hallam Tennyson (1897) 78 Charles Whibley “edgar allan poe” (1896) 79 William Butler Yeats (1899) 88 george Bernard Shaw “edgar allan poe” (1909) 88 d.H. lawrence “edgar allan poe” (1923) 94 Works 111 Poetry 113 William gilmore Simms “poe’s poetry” (1845) 113 algernon Charles Swinburne (1872) 116 Walt Whitman “edgar poe’s Significance” (1882) 117 edmund gosse “Has america produced a poet?” (1893) 118 John Burroughs “Mr. gosse’s puzzle over poe” (1893) 119 Joel Benton “poe’s opinion of ‘The raven’ ” (1897) 120 edmund Clarence Stedman “edgar allan poe” (1885) 121 General Prose 134 Henry Wadsworth longfellow (1841) 136 John Mackinnon robertson “poe” (1897) 136 Tales 144 Margaret Fuller “poe’s Tales” (1845) 144 Martin Farquhar Tupper “american romance” (1846) 146 robert louis Stevenson (1875) 148 Brander Matthews (1885) 152 lewis e. gates “edgar allan poe” (1900) 153 Francis Thompson “a dreamer of Things Impossible” (1901) 163 Brander Matthews “poe and the detective Story” (1907) 167 Eureka 178 george e. Woodberry “The end of the play” (1885) 178 Contents vii Criticism 186 nathanial Hawthorne (1846) 186 eugene Benson “poe and Hawthorne” (1868) 187 Henry James (1879) 188 Barrett Wendell (1900) 189 Chronology 191 Index 193 Series Introduction QQQ Bloom’s Classic Critical Views is a new series presenting a selection of the most important older literary criticism on the greatest authors commonly read in high school and college classes today. Unlike the Bloom’s Modern Critical Views series, which for more than twenty years has provided the best contemporary criticism on great authors, Bloom’s Classic Critical Views attempts to present the authors in the context of their time and to provide criticism that has proved over the years to be the most valuable to readers and writers. Selections range from contemporary reviews in popular magazines, which demonstrate how a work was received in its own era, to profound essays by some of the strongest critics in the British and American tradition, including Henry James, G.K. Chesterton, Matthew Arnold, and many more. Some of the critical essays and extracts presented here have appeared previously in other titles edited by Harold Bloom, such as the New Moulton’s Library of Literary Criticism. Other selections appear here for the first time in any book by this publisher. All were selected under Harold Bloom’s guidance. In addition, each volume in this series contains a series of essays by a contemporary expert, who comments on the most important critical selections, putting them in context and suggesting how they might be used by a student writer to influence his or her own writing. This series is intended above all for students, to help them think more deeply and write more powerfully about great writers and their works. ix
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